How can Taiwan's folk festival activities become spaces and scenes for promoting arts and culture? The lantern festival should be an experimental field.
How to popularize art education or elevate the arts in folk celebrations? Ao Yue Jiang Hai.
How to enhance folk art will be the prospect of future lantern festivals - Rui Feng Xiang Fei.
What does Taiwan's annual lantern festival enhance for local areas? Culture, industry, or promoting local prosperity?
Today's local governments act as recreation directors - everything paid for by the public - hence it is called the Taiwan Lantern Festival.
The lantern festival has become Taiwan's grandest annual folk entertainment event - seemingly having nothing to do with culture at all.
A lantern festival that feels like being immersed in a virtual world of light illusions.
A bustling folk garden party like a market - the lantern festival.
A national entertainment lantern festival that transcends time or features light illusions.
Auspicious turtles or lucky animals are the spiritual anchor of the people.
Only with lively dragons and vigorous tigers can this year be a dynamic tiger year.
Bustling excitement and joy seem to be the national sport of the lantern festival.
A Chinese city gate resembling a virtual world.
Chinese city gates and folk religious figure lantern zones from across the strait participating in the grand gathering.
Lotus seat works full of religious sentiment from China.
Today's lantern festival resembles a digitalized display of time and space.
This year's spectacular and metaphorical main lantern - Tiger Vigor.
Next to the tiger lantern, naturally, is the auspiciousness of praying for health and peace - Living Dragon.
The cute animal world lantern zone participated in by various primary and secondary schools in Chiayi.
Chiayi was formerly known as Chuoluo Mountain - the dinosaur lantern zone loved by children.
The bustling scene of the religious area lantern festival.
The religious area lantern festival resembling a Taiwanese night market.
Works in the art lantern festival zone within Chiayi Park: Wang Wen-zhi's large-scale installation work full of praying for blessings symbolism.
Works in the art lantern festival zone within Chiayi Park: Ou Zhi-cheng's modern outdoor installation lamp.

The annual Taiwan Lantern Festival, which takes place on the Lantern Festival holiday after the Lunar New Year every year (the 15th day of the first lunar month), falls to Chiayi City this year. It is a rare opportunity to live abroad; this year, coincidentally at this time and place, I had the privilege of attending the grand event, having the chance to visit and experience my hometown's special evening carnival, and sharing it with netizens through wonderful pictures.