Sik Sik Yuen Intangible Cultural Heritage Lantern Festival lights up Wong Tai Sin

Special performance stages erected at the open square have drawn artists from Zhejiang, Sichuan, Guangdong and Hubei provinces. HK artists have also given performances of Cantonese Opera; ballad singing to music; traditional lion, unicorn and fire dragon dances during the period.

According to organizers, performances of intangible cultural heritage items are to carry on from Sunday to Oct 1.

Sik Sik Yuen itself is a site of intangible cultural heritage. The Wong Tai Sin Belief and Customs, Hong Kong's religious folk belief, has developed a combination of religious and charity characteristics, and is widely spread among domestic and overseas Chinese communities.

The Wong Tai Sin Belief and Customs was formally included in the Fourth Batch of National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China in 2014, the first time a belief of Hong Kong has been made a national intangible cultural heritage.