Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Hotel franchise - Important annual festivals in Taiwan include the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Hungry Ghost Festival, etc.; Songbailing Xuantian God Ceremony, Dajia

Important annual festivals in Taiwan include the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Hungry Ghost Festival, etc.; Songbailing Xuantian God Ceremony, Dajia

Important annual festivals in Taiwan include the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Hungry Ghost Festival, etc.; Songbailing Xuantian God Ceremony, Dajia Mazu incense, Beigang Mazu patrol, Taipei City God Welcome, Donggang King Ship Festival, The Erjie Wanggong Fire Festival and Aboriginal Festivals... are also important local folk activities in Taiwan. In addition, in addition to inheriting traditional Chinese opera art, Taiwan has also developed Taiwanese unique Gezi Opera and Puppet Opera. Gezi Opera is a performing art that combines Taiwanese local opera tunes and music; Puppet Opera has recently integrated sound and light. Special effects, widely loved by young people. Taiwan's film and performance groups have gradually emerged on the international stage in recent years, once again demonstrating the inheritance and innovation of Chinese traditions and Taiwanese local culture. Harvest festivals, ancestral sacrifices, hunting sacrifices, totems, snake patterns...the mysterious cultural colors of Taiwan's aborigines add different vitality to Taiwanese culture. The aboriginal people in Taiwan belong to the Austronesian language family, which is the northernmost distribution of the Austronesian language family. They are ethnically Malay. Taiwan's aborigines currently mostly live in mountainous areas and are divided into ten tribes: Saisiyat, Atayal, Amis, Bunun, Beinan, Rukai, Paiwan, Yami, Cao and Thao, each with their own language, customs and tribal structure, but are currently facing problems of assimilation and cultural preservation. Among them, the Yamei people of Orchid Island, an outer island of Taiwan, were the last to come into contact with the Han people due to their geographical isolation, and thus have preserved the most complete aboriginal culture. You can see traces of the past colonial era in many corners of Taiwan. Hongmao City in Tamsui is the site of the Dutch and Portuguese occupation of Taiwan; the bustling Dihua Street in Taipei, Daxi in Taoyuan, and Xinhua in Tainan can be seen in the Baroque buildings left over from the Japanese occupation era, which are now in Taipei. Many important buildings during the Japanese occupation, such as the Presidential Palace, the Executive Yuan, the old National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei's West District, etc., have been equipped with night lighting to show their classical elegance. They have become decorations that embellish the night sky in Taipei, making Taiwan less tragic in its history. , with a romantic touch of art and humanities.