Hualien Happiness Christmas Town has been held for the 5th year. On the 19th, it will be lit up in the Stone Sculpture Park, and the 18-meter-high Christmas tree will be lit.

(Photo by reporter Wang Junqi)

[Reporter Wang Junqi/Hualien Report] Hualien Happy Christmas City has been held for the fifth year in a row. On the 19th, it opened with lights in the Stone Sculpture Park. Theme, starting from the 21st, nearly a hundred vendors will be invited to create three major themed markets, and with installations such as Christmas trees and giant arks, the entire park will be lit up with light sculpture art at night.

This year Hualien Happy Christmas City continues the immersive experience of Bethlehem town decoration and landscaping last year, and launched the "Ark Market". With the background of the story of Noah's Ark, an 18-meter-high giant ark installation was created, combined with art exhibitions and theater performances , inviting the public to stop and experience and immerse themselves in Christmas art.

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There are also three themed activities on site, including "Christmas Forest Parade", "Dawn Party Fat Card Market" and "Immersive Ark Market". Among them, "Christmas Forest Parade Picnic Market" echoes the celebration of the new world The concept brings together multiple groups of businesses located in four major areas, and places a tree of life device symbolizing hope and a large picnic space for tourists to sit on the ground.

Several Fat Truck food trucks will gather at the meeting place to hold the "Dawn Party", combined with cute animal decorations, symbolizing walking down the ark with the animals in the Noah's Ark story, creating a world that can be reborn and step into a new world full of dawn context.

The Hualien County government stated that Christmasland also integrated art and aesthetics into the celebration, inviting hundreds of children in the county to create paintings with the theme of Noah's Ark "animals". All paintings will be exhibited in the giant ark in the Ark Market , Let the public see the children's artistic talent together.

The county government pointed out that this year, with the latest upsurge in the metaverse, the joint name "Space Alligator AstroGator" will digitally post-process children's paintings and launch a festival-limited NFT "Tomorrow Animals Fleet" festival-limited Christmas card. The event site will be open Free collection for the public; the Christmas market will be held from 21 to 25, from 3 pm to 9 pm every day, and the light sculpture and lighting installation art will be on display until January 1 next year.

Hualien Happy Christmas City launched the "Ark Market" this year, creating an 18-meter-long giant ark device based on the background of the story of Noah's Ark.

(Photo by reporter Wang Junqi)

The Hualien Christmasland event symbolizes walking down the ark with the animals in the Noah's Ark story, creating a world that is reborn, and stepping into a new world full of dawn.

(Photo by reporter Wang Junqi)

Hualien Christmasland integrates art and aesthetics into the celebration, inviting hundreds of children in the county to create paintings with the theme of Noah's Ark "animals". All paintings will be digitally exhibited in the giant ark in the Ark Market.

(Photo by reporter Wang Junqi)

Many paper sculptures of animals are displayed in the giant ark.

(Photo by reporter Wang Junqi)