Taiwan Lantern Festival

By Jim Liu, YAIC Weekly

March 4, 2013

During the Taiwan Lantern Festival, we can see many lanterns in the sky. As a Chinese people, we cannot miss this big event. Therefore, let me introduce Taiwan Lantern Festival for you.

This year the Taiwan Lantern Festival is held by Hsinchu County Government.

There are five zones in this area which show their features, including：

1. Soaring Snake Zone
2. Hsinchu Opto Technology Lantern Zone
3. Animated Art Zone
4. Local Culture Zone
5. Charming Hsinchu Zone

Soaring Snake

The theme of this year's Taiwan Lantern Festival will emphasize on innovation and breakthrough based on strong winds, high speeds and the future, connecting images of high speed and future style for the connection of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Hsinchu Station to the Taiwna lantern Festival. The master lantern in the main lantern zone show will be showed in conncert with beautiful lighting effects and bamboo structures to incorporate concepts of sustainable environment protection.

Hsinchu Opto Technology Lantern Zone

What is most admired in Hsinch County is the intimacy of the land and the people, and the love and protection of the homeland. Thus the sporlight of the Lnatern Festival of Hsinchu County shows not just tech industries but also awareness of the importance of environmental protection. It tells that we have to try our best to protect our environment.

Animated Art Zone

During the Taiwan Lantern Festival, the animated art zone will be the place taht grabs both adults and attention. In fact, the Hsinchu County Government has adopted the concept of the Neiwan scenic area, and used a combination of cartoon and local features in a lively animation and cartoon zone.

Local Culture Zone

Hakka immigrant in the early days settled on the ridges and plains of Hsinchu County, making the county a major Hakka area for more than a hundred years. Today its residents are mostly Hakka, and they live in harmony with other races. There are also a large number of aboringinal tribes in the remote mountains of Hsinchu County. Therefore, during the 2013 Taiwan Lantern Festival Hsinchu County has constructed a unique zone to make us know more about local cultures in Hsinchu.

Charming Hsinchu Zone

Hsinchu County Government cling to a vision of marching to the world. Thus, it has made use of all the resources of Hsinchu County while the essence of the county is condensed so that you can know about the entire county at the lantern festival. As the case stands, the four respective areas, friendly city lantern area, natural exploration hall, street browsing and giant lantern area, and the 13 townships landscape boulevard are designed in order to make visitors fall in love with the charms of Hsinchu County.

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