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Fire dragon dance in east China

2010-02-23 10:15:03 GMT2010-02-23 18:15:03 (Beijing Time)  Xinhua English

People perform the fire dragon dance at a lantern fair in Fuyang, east China's Anhui province, Feb 22, 2010. As a national intangible cultural heritage, the dance is most famous for the dragons going through melted iron meteors where temperatures hit more than 1,000 degrees Celsius. The dance is performed every night around the Spring Festival at Fuyang's lantern fairs. [Photo/Xinhua]

ople perform the fire dragon dance at a lantern fair in Fuyang, east China's Anhui province, Feb 22, 2010. [Photo/Xinhua]

ople perform the fire dragon dance at a lantern fair in Fuyang, east China's Anhui province, Feb 22, 2010. [Photo/Xinhua]

People perform the fire dragon dance at a lantern fair in Fuyang, east China's Anhui province, Feb 22, 2010.

As a national intangible cultural heritage, the dance is most famous for the dragons going through melted iron meteors where temperatures hit more than 1,000 degrees Celsius. The dance is performed every night around the Spring Festival at Fuyang's lantern fairs.

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