ROYAL VISIT
PRESS
RELEASE
Sunday, April 27, 1975
FOCUS ON CHINESE TRADITION FOR ROYAL PROCESSION
:
Organisers of the procession to be held in Nathan Road on May 6
are taking pains to ensure that it will be like nothing the Queen has
ever seen before.
With the exception of a representative contingent of the armed
services, who will provide the guard of honour and start the procession
on its route up Nathan Road, the emphasis will be entirely on traditional
Chinese elements.
Commented a spokesman for the planning committee, "Because this
will be the Queen's first opportunity to see Hong Kong people put on a
typically Hong Kong procession, we want these traditional elements to be
correct in every detail.
"As far as possible, every feature of the decorations, props and
costumes, down to shoes and hairstyles, will be in accordance with historical
precedents."
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For this reason,
the committee took the view that there should be
no motorised 'floats' in the cavalcade, and that any tableau on wheels
would be pushed or pulled by hand.
One such tableau should be of particular interest to the Queen
because of its associations with a poem which Queen Victoria received from
the then Chinese Ambassador, concerning the Goddess of the West.
Students of the New Method College have planned the tableau to
depict a dance in honour of the Goddess of the West, led by the Fairy Ma.
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