The 2023 Tianjin-Hong Kong Lantern Festival will be held on January 14 and the opening ceremony will be held on January 15. It will last for one month. This year's theme is "Moonlight in the City", which is both romantic and fantasy. Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe invites everyone to "appreciate the moon".

(Photo by reporter Wang Hanping)

[Reporter Wang Hanping/Tainan Report] The 2023 Jin-Hong Kong Lantern Festival will start on January 14 and open on January 15. It will last for one month. This year's theme is "Moonlight in the City", which is both romantic and fantastic, and full of hopeful energy. Sound and light installation art Works, Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe invites everyone to "watch the moon".

Since the Yuejin Hong Kong Lantern Festival was held for 10 years, the number of visitors last year exceeded 1.1 million for the first time, and it has become a must-see itinerary for the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival.

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Huang Weizhe said that there are more and more new installations this year, allowing everyone to feel the 360-degree surrounding field, which is highly recommended. Welcome everyone to come to Yanyan to see the Yuejin Hong Kong Lantern Festival, and welcome everyone to watch the exciting and lively salt water bee cannon .

The Nanshi Cultural Bureau said that this year, with the theme of "Moonlight in the City", more than 50 groups of well-known domestic and foreign artists' sound and light installation art works have been assembled. The interweaving sound and light of "Le" will once again focus on salt water, and feast on world-class sound and light art, illuminating the happy time in the post-epidemic era.

The Lantern Festival Art Lantern Zone is named after the phases of the moon and has three sub-themes: "Romantic Eclipse Moon", "Surreal Blue Moon" and "Hope Energy Crescent Moon". Participating artists include the internationally renowned French acousto-optic art The team "Groupe LAPS", Taiwan's first art team invited to the Amsterdam Light Festival "Useful Ideas", the salt water local art group "Yuyu Studio", "Group B of the Institute of Architectural Art of Tainan University of the Arts", and well-known Sound and light artist Yao Zhonghan's "Sound and Light" etc.

Huang Weizhe said that the ancestors began to settle and cultivate in the salt water 400 years ago, and gradually formed an important and prosperous trading port, and also shaped the unique cultural connotation of the salt water; The film and television base of the Inland Sugar Factory also promotes film and television works such as "Scaro" and "Jiaqing Junyou Taiwan"; actively builds the surrounding roads and other roads around the Yanshui Martial Temple and the Xiaoshui Sugar Factory, so that the entire surrounding area of ​​Yanshui The quality of sightseeing and life has been improved, and it is also the best preparation for Tainan's 400th anniversary.

The opening event on the 15th is expected to invite a group of modern dance performances and a group of opening performance guests, combined with installation works as the performance stage.

Through the special structural installation and lighting design of the work "Night Mirage", it integrates the modern dance performance of "Shenzhidao Production", and integrates the dance performance with lighting changes.

Singer "Ai Yiliang" is invited to sing songs related to "Moonlight" in conjunction with the theme of the exhibition.

The 2023 Tianjin-Hong Kong Lantern Festival will be held on January 14 and the opening ceremony will be held on January 15. It will last for one month. This year's theme is "Moonlight in the City", which is both romantic and fantasy. Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe invites everyone to "appreciate the moon".

(Photo by reporter Wang Hanping)

In 2023, the Jin-Hong Kong Lantern Festival will start testing lights in the light area.

(Provided by Nanshi Cultural Bureau)

In 2023, the Jin-Hong Kong Lantern Festival will start testing lights in the light area.

(Provided by Nanshi Cultural Bureau)

In 2023, the Jin-Hong Kong Lantern Festival will start testing lights in the light area.

(Provided by Nanshi Cultural Bureau)