The Taiwan Lantern Festival officially lights up on February 15. The main lantern "Emperor Pheasant" is created in combination with the art of calligraphy!

(Taiwan Immigrants’ Global News Network) – The 2022 Taiwan Lantern Festival (台灣燈會) will be launched in February. This year is the first time the main lantern will be created combined with the art of calligraphy. With the theme of "Flying Phoenix" (鳳彩飛舞), the shape of the main lantern is inspired by the word "phoenix" (鳳) in cursive script. The posture of the phoenix is perched on the high mountains shrouded in auspicious clouds. The Taiwan Lantern Festival will be officially lit on February 15, and the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation (交通部觀光局) will announce the shape of the main lamp and lantern.

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The head of the main lamp "Emperor Pheasant" combines with the art of calligraphy. Photo/provided by the Tourism Bureau

The Tourism Bureau stated that the "2022 Taiwan Lantern Festival" will officially start at 7:00 p.m. on the day of the Lantern Festival on February 15. After that, there will be a main light show every hour on the hour for 30 minutes each, until February 28. This year is the first time to combine the creation of the lamp with the art of calligraphy. The well-known artist Lu Ping Cheng (呂秉承) and the national treasure-level calligrapher Dong Yangzi (董陽孜) will have cross-art cooperation. With the theme of "Flying Phoenix", the shape of the main lamp is conceived from the word "phoenix" in cursive script.

The main lamp design presents the first stroke of the calligraphy writing of the character for phoenix, and presents it in a Taiwanese shape, which symbolizes Taiwan first. It is hoped that the new and different shape of the main lamp which uses metal weaving techniques to create a Taiwanese style will show the world a new look of Taiwan.

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The Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications announced the shape of the main lamp and the small lantern. Photo/provided by the Tourism Bureau

For the small lantern, the Tourism Bureau said that this year's small lantern will be named "Daji Lucky Tiger" (大吉虎). The Q version design is based on “Tiger Lord” (虎爺), the protector of children in folk belief, with "Daji" (大吉) and "Dali" (大利) written on the tiger's palm. The children can play with the lanterns, and the lanterns can also be placed on the table and serve as a tiger figurine praying for safety and blessing the children with peace with the hope that the epidemic will stay away.