The Tai Hang Fire Dragon has its origin in 1880. At that time, Tai Hang was only a small Hakka village and hte villagers, most of them farmers and fishermen, led a simple and peaceful life. The tale started when the villagers once killed a serpent in a stormy night, but in the next morning, the dead body of the serpent had disappeared. A few days later, a plague spread out in Tai Hang and many people died of infection. Meanwhile, a village elder saw Buddha onenight in his dream and told to perform a Fire Dragon Dance and burn fire crackers in the MId-Autumn Festival. The sulphur in the fire crackers drove away the discase and the villagers were saved. Since then, every year the Tai Hang residents would perform the Fire Dragon Dance for three nights in the Mid-Autumn Festival in memory of the incident. The Fire Dragon is 200 feet long with its body divided into 32 segments, all of which are stuffed with straw and stuck full of incense sticks. So it is known as the "Fire Dragon".