Tainan Yanshui Beehive Rockets Festival
By , TravelKing
Updated: 2015/3/11
Updated: 2015/3/11
The event has ended this year.
Photo by Cini
When: 2015/03/05
Where:Yanshui Wu Miao Temple
No.87, Wumiao Rd., Yanshui Dist., Tainan CityTainan City Yanshuei District
Yanshui Junior High SchoolTainan City Yanshuei District
Organizers: Tainan City Government, Tainan Yanshui Wu Miao Temple
Contact Number: +886 6 6521264
The most well-known Tainan Yanshui Fireworks (Yanshui Beehive Rockets Festival) will mark the grand finale of Tainan 2015 Chinese New Year celebrations. It is hold annually at Wu Temple (Wumiao) in Yanshui of Tainan City 15 days after Chinese New Year, and be more specifically it is on the second day of Chinese Lantern Festival. It is ranked as the third largest folk celebration in the world and is one of the most representative religious events in all of Taiwan.
Where:Yanshui Wu Miao Temple
No.87, Wumiao Rd., Yanshui Dist., Tainan CityTainan City Yanshuei District
Yanshui Junior High SchoolTainan City Yanshuei District
Organizers: Tainan City Government, Tainan Yanshui Wu Miao Temple
Contact Number: +886 6 6521264
The most well-known Tainan Yanshui Fireworks (Yanshui Beehive Rockets Festival) will mark the grand finale of Tainan 2015 Chinese New Year celebrations. It is hold annually at Wu Temple (Wumiao) in Yanshui of Tainan City 15 days after Chinese New Year, and be more specifically it is on the second day of Chinese Lantern Festival. It is ranked as the third largest folk celebration in the world and is one of the most representative religious events in all of Taiwan.
The Fireworks Festival originated from a cholera epidemic that broke out in the village of Yanshui in 1875 and lasted for more than twenty years. In order to drive out the evil spirit that had brought the Cholera to the village, the villagers light on the fireworks to cast the evil spirit away. Later the Yanshuei Fireworks Festival symbolized driving out the bad luck to get all the fortune and start a new year. The town people arranged the rocket forts by thousands of bottle rockets, and its appearance looks like beehives where the name of Beehive Rockets Festival from.
Each time, the event attracts more than ten thousands visitors wearing well protected gear such as helmets, thick clothing, ear plugs, and mask to watch the spectacular display, and celebrate a new start for a year. The Beehive Fireworks event is paired with the “Pingxi Sky Lanterns” in describing Lantern Festival activities: “Sky lanterns in the north, Beehive Fireworks in the south.” With hundreds of thousands of firecrackers all going off at the same time;it is a cacophony like hundreds of thousands of bees streaming out of their hives.
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For more information on Taiwan Lantern Festival:
http://www.travelking.com.tw/eng/tourguide/lanternfestival/
Hotel bookings on Lantern Festival around Taiwan:
http://www.hotel.com.tw/en/