A drone photo taken on Oct. 4, 2025 shows a scene during a straw-woven dragon performance at Shuyuan Village, Huizhou District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province. As China's Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, villagers at Shuyuan Village highlights their celebration with the straw-woven dragon performance.
Shuyuan's straw-woven dragon has been listed as a municipal-level intangible cultural heritage that boasts a history spanning over three centuries. Once the date for a dragon performance is slated at the village, locals would spontaneously collect and contribute straws for weaving of the dragon - an omen for a bountiful harvest.
The straw-woven dragon performance on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival has well blended cultural experience into sightseeing, which serves as a major tourist attraction this year. (Photo by Fan Chengzhu/Xinhua)
Tourists pose for photos with mini straw-woven dragons at Shuyuan Village, Huizhou District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 4, 2025.(Photo by Fan Chengzhu/Xinhua)
Bao Guanjin (L), an inheritor of straw-woven dragon craftsmanship, works with a villager to check a finished straw-woven dragon at Shuyuan Village, Huizhou District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 4, 2025.(Photo by Fan Chengzhu/Xinhua)
Bao Guanjin (L), an inheritor of straw-woven dragon craftsmanship, works with a villager to make a mini straw-woven dragon at Shuyuan Village, Huizhou District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 4, 2025.(Photo by Fan Chengzhu/Xinhua)
People dance with a straw-woven dragon at Shuyuan Village, Huizhou District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 4, 2025.(Photo by Fan Chengzhu/Xinhua)
Bao Guanjin (L), an inheritor of straw-woven dragon craftsmanship, makes a mini straw-woven dragon at Shuyuan Village, Huizhou District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 4, 2025.(Photo by Fan Chengzhu/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 4, 2025 shows a straw-woven dragon performance at Shuyuan Village, Huizhou District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province.(Photo by Fan Chengzhu/Xinhua)
People dance with a straw-woven dragon at Shuyuan Village, Huizhou District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 4, 2025.(Photo by Fan Chengzhu/Xinhua)