The New Year's mascot "Alice" in Tainan North District was unveiled, and the material is taken from the nine-in-one election ballot and recycled.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)

[Reporter Wang Shuxiu/Tainan Report] The New Year mascot "Alice" of the North District Office is made from more than 40 discarded paper tickets that will be sent to the incinerator after the Nine-in-One General Election, allowing the discarded paper tickets to be recreated in different ways life!

The mascot of the Year of the Rabbit "Alice" is 240 cm high and 280 cm wide. It is a little white rabbit with a slightly futai body and a smiling face with pink cheeks. The team of the North District Office, District Chief Li Huangxing hand-painted the model sketch, and the director Secretary Cai Jiafu, Administrative Section Chief Shan Chunmei, colleagues and volunteers worked together to stack cardboard boxes, cut the boxes into shapes, and use the remaining election bulletins and seals to make round blanks.

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The production technique behind it comes from the paper-pasting craft taught by Wu Wenjin, the preserver of the intangible cultural assets of Tainan City. This craft technology has been sponsored by the Kaiji Yuhuang Palace since 2020 and introduced to the North District Zhenbei School for classes. Li Huangxing, Cai Jiafu and Shan Chunmei are the students in this class. They applied the skills learned in the classroom to this creation. They stacked cardboard boxes to form a skeleton, cut out the cardboard boxes, folded them and glued them into shapes, and skillfully used the prototype paper of the ticket itself as rabbit teeth , in the process of rounding the embryo, the labels of the mayor, city councilors and voters are deliberately kept, so that the visitors can understand the source of the creation materials. Interestingly, a combination of civil officials on the left and military generals on the right has been formed.

Li Huangxing said that the appearance of "Alice" shows the joy of the New Year. The left side is painted with the words "Good Pregnancy" in large red characters that are very festive, and the golden "Chun" on the right side represents "True (gold) is springing (left) )", the word "Fu" on the right back represents "there must be a future blessing", and the surrounding area is decorated with Zentangle paintings by Yang Yaling, the teacher certified by Zentangle® Asian Zentangle teacher, which can be said to be both environmentally friendly and fashionable The works of art let the public feel the strong New Year's atmosphere.

Li Huangxing said that in order to allow the public to have the opportunity to interact with the little white rabbit "Alice", the New Year's mascot of the North District Office, in addition to making the main body of "Alice", the office also made big carrots and rabbit headbands, and used the election Carrot prayer cards are made from waste paper, allowing people to write new wishes for the New Year!

Today, the "Alice" meeting on the first day, the Kandel Kindergarten located next to the office will be the first to experience it. Write down new wishes for the new year and put them into the mouth of the mascot little white rabbit, symbolizing the fulfillment of New Year's wishes. The public is also welcome to use it in the North District A chance to take a photo with the mascot "Alice" at the opportunity of the office.

The New Year's mascot "Alice" in Tainan North District appeared together with carrots, and the materials were taken from nine-in-one election tickets and recycled.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)

The students of Kandel Kindergarten met with the New Year mascot "Alice" firstly today, and wrote new wishes for the New Year one by one and put them in the tickets.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)