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The longest hanging dragon in the world

(People's Daily Online)

17:11, July 17, 2013

Hanging dragon dance (Hunan Daily/Teng Zhizhong)

Folk artists perform hanging dragon dance in Nanshan Farm, Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, China's Hunan Province, July 14, 2013. The hanging dragon is 38.8 meters long. It's listed in the Shanghai great world guinness record as "The longest hanging dragon in the world".

"Hanging Dragon" is created by Miao people in Chengbu, using poles with different lengths to lift the different parts of the dragon, to produce various movements, like a real dragon soaring in the sky.

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