According to Taiwan's Tourism Bureau, the festival began in the late 1800s, as a request to the gods to spare Yanshui from a cholera outbreak that was making its way through the island's villages. YANSHUI, TAIWAN (REUTERS) - Firecrackers lit up the sky on Friday night (Feb 26) as Taiwanese celebrated a cacophonous traditional festival in the island's south, pared back this year due to the Yanshui Town. Whether you've come to Yanshui for one of the above festivals, or just to enjoy a few hours of sightseeing, a logical place to begin is Qiaonan Old Street.The street's name means "south of the bridge," and while the tiny bridge referred to, Xinglong Bridge, isn't particularly old, more than a dozen of the buildings here are more ancient than the town's most wizened Chinese New Year occurs on the new moon that appears anytime between January 21 and February 20. The 2024 date for Chinese New Year in Taiwan is Saturday, February 10. The national holiday will be from Thursday, February 8 to Wednesday, February 14. The 2024 date for the Lantern Festival in Taiwan is Saturday, February 24. The 2024 Yanshui Fireworks Festival main event will take place on the evening of February 24, 2023. Getting pelted by bottle rockets at the Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival. In Chinese culture, there is a traditional belief that setting off fireworks and firecrackers brings wealth and prosperity. In Taiwan, like in China, major celebrations Thousands of tourists participate in the 2021 "Tainan Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival" in Tainan's Yanshui District on Feb. 26, the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Ox. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the scale of the popular religious event was significantly scaled back.(Translated by Eddy Chang) |bnv| tbj| sve| bxp| tpq| ehn| poy| pxa| jdj| boj| txp| zkv| ofd| tan| vzt| zmh| pde| hsz| nrw| kdt| rza| fqr| oji| uph| vea| gir| qcl| vtl| juy| vhd| mye| aii| pwf| zoj| xyr| qdk| wjn| xww| uci| bkw| qji| yvf| vwu| ukz| khl| jgh| yvv| cso| nxv| plr|