At that time, an elderly villager received Buddha's guidance in a dream that told him to hold The Fire Dragon Dance in the Mid-Autumn festival to drive away the plague.
[3] The Fire Dragon are over ten meters long and made of bamboo sticks, metal wire and straw (pearl grass) imported from China,.
[4] In tradition's centennial anniversary in year 2010, leader of Pok Fu Lam village fire dragon dance team, Mr. Ng Kwong-nam, made an attempt for Guinness World Records.
Finally, when it is arrived to the Waterfall Bay beach, the villagers will wear life jackets and bring back the dragon to the sea, which means "cong lung kwai hoi" in Chinese.
The village is characterized by its narrow lanes and twisting alleys that form a complex network of paths through a collection of traditional one-storey buildings that feature walls of hay and stone and pitched roof tiles, some of which have been there since 1886, the establishment date for the original dairy farm company.
Despite the secret construction methods, other villagers can take part in the event: they help carry buckets, move heavy stones, and prepare turnip puddings.
Pokfulam's fire dragon dance is a historical architecture, the villagers promote their community as part of industrial and agricultural heritage of Hong Kong.
The outsiders, men or women, could even be involved in part of the ‘dancing’ process, for instance, putting the incense sticks into the dragon, holding it and rushing down to the sea with other villagers.
The World Monument Fund[10] claimed it as the modern appearance of the village belies its importance to the history of Hong Kong, contributing to the preservation of the diversity of this urban space.