The Dianji Palace, located in the Miaokou Night Market in Keelung, draws a lottery for scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen every year. This year, Zhang Yuanxiang, Director of Keelung Civil Affairs, represented Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang. Zhang Yuanxiang and Keelung City Council Speaker Tong Ziwei visited the Dianji Palace to draw lots.

(Photo by reporter Yu Zhaofu)

[Reporter Yu Zhaofu/Report from Keelung] Tong Ziwei, the first speaker of the DPP’s Keelung City Council yesterday (21st) near midnight, visited the Dianji Palace in Keelung City, and drew out the poems signed by the scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce of the year; among them, Zhang Yuanxiang, Director of Keelung Municipal Affairs Tong Ziwei, the chairman of the Keelung City Council, cast lots in the order of scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen. The fortunes of business and industry in the Year of the Rabbit are good, suggesting that this year's prosperity will be extremely prosperous.

On New Year’s Eve, Keelung City Council Speaker Tong Ziwei visited Qing’an Palace and Dianji Palace respectively.

Keelung Qing'an Temple, also known as the Keelung Mazu Temple, was built in 1780. Together with Dianji Palace and Chenghuang Temple, they are collectively known as the "Three Great Temples of Keelung".

Tong Ziwei said that he is grateful for the support from all walks of life. With a grateful heart, he will face the next challenge and work hard with all the city councilors to work together for the Keelung municipal government.

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The Miaokou Night Market in Keelung City, which is well-known throughout the country, prospered because of the Dianji Palace dedicated to the Kaizhang Sacred King. Over the years, around midnight on New Year’s Eve, the Mayor of Keelung and the Speaker of the Keelung City Council drew a lottery for the National Games.

This year, on behalf of Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang, Zhang Yuanxiang, together with Tong Ziwei, drew lots in the order of scholars, farmers, industry and merchants.

Tong Ziwei and Zhang Yuanxiang drew out poems representing Keelung City’s “Scholar, Farmer, Industry, and Merchant” in the year of the rabbit. They were numbered 43rd, 30th, 40th, and 97th; , Commercial Luck Signs are Shangji and Shangshang Signs respectively. Among them, the Labor Movement Sign reads "The new arrival has a good scale, so why follow the trend of others. I only heard the news in my ears, and the ups and downs have gone through every step." The business luck lottery is "Fifty fame and fame have been discouraged, but wealth and honor are forcing people to come, and they should do good deeds to save their feet. Longevity is better than Gangling." All of them imply that the domestic prosperity will be extremely prosperous.

However, the lotteries drawn this year for the Scholars’ Movement and the Farmers’ Movement were both Chinese and Kyrgyzstan’s. Among them, the Scholars’ Movement lottery reads, “A piece of official letter is in a hurry, and the boat is going down like thunder. Although the current situation is very frightening, please return safely. "As for the Peasant Movement's lottery, it reads, "Follow the public and don't deceive your heart. Prosperity and auspiciousness will come. The current business is over, and the autumn period will be a good date with your son."

The Dianji Palace in the Miaokou Night Market in Keelung draws lottery tickets for the National Games for Scholars, Agriculture, Industry and Commerce every year. This year, Zhang Yuanxiang, Director of Keelung Civil Affairs, represented Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang. Zhang Yuanxiang and Keelung City Council Speaker Tong Ziwei visited Dianji Palace to draw lots.

(The picture is provided by Tong Ziwei, Speaker of the Keelung City Council)