A man performs a drunk dragon dance during the Drunken Dragon Festival to celebrate the Buddha’s Birthday in Macao yesterday. Recognized as an item of China’s national intangible cultural heritage, the Drunken Dragon Festival originates from a Macao legend of a Buddhist monk and a divine dragon who saved people from the plague during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Buddha’s Birthday is a holiday traditionally celebrated in most of East Asia to commemorate the birth of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later the Gautama Buddha and founder of Buddhism.Xinhua |