Huanglongxi Ancient Town Tourism Area （Northeast Gate）
Riverside old town where a straw dragon runs through molten sparks each winter and water fights fill the stream each summer.
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This guide to Huanglongxi Ancient Town's northeast gate in Chengdu opens by asking whether you'd run toward or away from a dragon made of molten iron, and follows the lunar new year ritual where men weave a straw dragon while blacksmiths hurl liquid iron sparks behind it through the old lanes. It traces how the rest of the year turns the same stream into a summer water fight open to everyone, and into a Dragon Boat Festival race lined with paddling crews. You'll walk bluestone lanes only about three and a half meters wide, the same ground that has drawn more than a hundred film crews over the years. Come on a weekend near the fifteenth day of the first lunar month if you want to feel the heat firsthand.
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