The tung flowers in the Qidu mountain area of ​​Keelung are blooming one after another.

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[Reporter Lu Xianxiu/Report from Keelung] The tung flowers in the Qidu mountain area of ​​Keelung City are blooming one after another. The Keelung City Cultural Bureau and the Hakka Art and Literature Association held a tung flower festival at the Qidu Maling Coke Kiln today. You can DIY pig cage pan.

This year, we also held the Chuan Zong Ji Bo Gong Ceremony, respecting the heaven and the earth and nature.

Many tung trees are planted in Qidu and Nuannuan Mountains of Keelung. The tung trees are in full bloom in April and May every year. They are currently blooming one after another, and will enter the blooming period in one week. The mountains are snow-white, suitable for hiking and viewing flowers.

Keelung City held the Tung Blossom Festival in Chidumaling today. Councilor Jiang Zhicheng from the Hakka Committee of the Executive Yuan, Jiang Tingmei from the Cultural Bureau of Keelung City, Tong Ziwei, chairman of the City Council, and many councilors attended.

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This year, in addition to viewing tung blossoms, concerts, local farmers' markets, and DIY pig cage cooking, the traditional ceremony of worshiping Bogong will also be held.

Jiang Zhicheng said that this traditional ceremony of worshiping Bogong represents the spirit of the Hakka people who respect the sky, the earth, the mountains and the nature, and the Tung Blossom Festival is to pass on this spirit.

Jiang Tingmei said that the Hakka Tung Blossom Festival awakens the public's memory of the mountains and forests through the elegant and white tung flowers. Therefore, a ceremony of worshiping the uncle was arranged during the event, and through the reverence for nature, the Hakka group's gratitude to the heaven and the earth is passed on.

In the post-epidemic era, the public is welcome to go into nature to heal the body and mind.

Jiang Tingmei pointed out that tung flowers bloom in April and May every year, tung tree bark can be used to make glue, fruit shell can be used to make activated carbon, roots, leaves, flowers, and fruits can be used as medicine, tung seeds can be used to make tung oil, and the trunk can be used as building materials and musical instruments , matchsticks, and wooden shoes symbolize the Hakka people's thrifty spirit in the early days of reclaiming the mountains and forests. Through this event, everyone can see "tung flowers", "humanities" and "Hakkas".

The Keelung Tung Blossom Festival holds a traditional ceremony of offering sacrifices to uncle Gong, respecting heaven, earth and nature.

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Keelung Tung Blossom Festival performances.

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Keelung Tung Blossom Festival, Hakka octave performance.

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People make pig cage pans DIY.

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