[Festival Taiwan] 2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival in Taipei Moon Rabbit Chinese Dragon Blue Magpie

The "Taiwan Lantern Festival" changed its name from the Taipei Lantern Festival in 2001 and began touring major cities. It returned to Taipei 23 years later. With the theme of "Light Source Taipei", it plans 4 major exhibition areas, 1 main lantern, and 6 auxiliary lanterns. It covers an area of ​​168 hectares and connects 12 major administrative regions. The theme includes four key areas: natural ecology, humanistic characteristics, culture and art, and religious folk customs. It will also host up to 53 local participation series activities, creating a "city" held in the city center for the first time. Lantern Festival". The main visual uses the Taipei Basin as the base, allowing every viewer to see Taipei's transformation and future.
The main lantern of the 2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival is based on the zodiac "rabbit". The well-known artist Li Mingdao AKIBO created a 22-meter-high technological rabbit main lantern. Named "Jade Rabbit Brilliant", Olympic gold medal weightlifter Chun Tou Kuo was invited. Facial motion capture technology was used to add vivid expressions to the main lantern jade rabbit, and golden song producer Chen Jianqi was invited to compose theme music. Combining digital technology, special effects and innovative technologies, the main light show will perform 360-degree works on a mechanical turntable, bringing visitors a new light and shadow experience.
With "spirit, vividness" as the core, using the thinking of "work must be intentional, intention must be auspicious", combined with the summary and refinement of creativity and aesthetics, it draws on the representation of auspicious narratives in folk beliefs, and then combines them across boundaries to combine technology, art, media, and dynamic machinery. The performance uses the method of "old art and new works" to join forces across generations with technology and traditional arts, and combines the aesthetics of lantern lights and shadows to extract the "spirit" of auspiciousness and the "narrative" of blessings, and create a "coiled dragon presenting auspiciousness" as a place to gather treasures. ”, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the most “divine” day.
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