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The Taiwan Lantern Festival (Chinese: 臺灣燈會; pinyin: Táiwān dēnghuì) is an annual event hosted by the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Taiwan to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Many activities are held across Taiwan during the Lantern Festival; thousands of sky lanterns are lit over Pingxi ...
During the Lantern Festival, the park is a virtual ocean of lanterns. Many new designs attract large numbers of visitors. The most eye-catching lantern is the Dragon Pole. This is a lantern in the shape of a golden dragon, spiraling up a 38-meter-high pole, spewing fireworks from its mouth.
Lantern Festival • 元宵節 / 元宵节 Lantern parade and lion dance celebrating the first full moon. Eating tangyuan. This day is also the last day of new year celebration. This is Tourism Day in Taiwan: 2 (二月) 2nd February 24, 2020 Zhonghe Festival (Blue Dragon Festival) • 中和節 / 中和节 • 青龍節 / 青龙节
They said that the Seoul Lantern Festival was a copy of their Jinju Namgang Yudeng Festival, [28] which itself is annual and had begun earlier, in 2000. [29] It had been started in that year as a public requiem, and also as an occasion for a Korean prayer rite in honour of about 70,000 soldiers and civilians who had died in the historic second ...
The Water Lantern Festival, a USA TODAY 10Best award-winner, transforms cities across the country with a viewing of lanterns designed by attendees that will be launched onto a body of water.
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the illuminated nighttime stroll through 5,000 artistically carved jack-o-lanterns at Iroquois Park.
One very important festival in which sky lanterns are used is the Yi Peng festival, which is held on a full moon of the 2nd month (ยี่เป็ง, Yi Peng, [jîː pēŋ]) of the Lanna calendar (which coincides with Loi Krathong, the traditional festival on the 12th month of the Thai lunar calendar). During the Yi Peng festival, a ...
The Same Sky arts initiative describes the festival as "the giving and sharing of thoughts and wishes… and put them into a secular format that can be enjoyed by all regardless of faith or creed" and says that the intention is to "[create] new urban rituals to replace those traditional festivals that were lost in the dash to be new and non superstitious".