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Controversy at 2024 Taoyuan Lantern Festival: Taiwan, China Promotion Sparks Outcry

Reporter Luo Xinyi/Taoyuan Report

▲Taoyuan City Councilor Huang Qionghui said the word “Taiwan, China” in the promotional video posted by a bag-catching manufacturer on the fan page. (Photo/Provided by Taoyuan City Councilor Huang Qionghui)

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The 2024 Taoyuan Lantern Festival was launched on the 21st. It was held for the first time this year at Nanchang Forest Sports Park and Hutoushan Innovation Park in Taoyuan District. It focused on “Hanfu Culture” and invited people to wear Hanfu and perform lanterns. However, City Councilor Huang Qionghui was caught off guard. The manufacturer’s short film actually used the simplified Chinese characters “Taoyuan Lantern Festival, Taiwan, China” to promote the event. It was even discovered that the manufacturer undertaking the event was also from China. In August last year, it also hosted the “Hanfu Culture Week” in Xitang Ancient Town, and composed a golden song Renfang Wenshan is also the initiator of the event.

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Taiwan Hanfu Culture Recommendation Officer” A nearly 1-minute promotional video was released on PO. The actors in the shot all appeared in Hanfu. In the video, it was written in simplified Chinese that “Young people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait gather in Hanfu.” It was paired with the Year of the Dragon lanterns and jacquard lanterns wearing Hanfu. The crowd watching the lanterns is quite New Year’s style. The entire short film is paired with shocking background music. The end of the video is marked with “2024 TAOYUAN LANTERN FESTIVAL, Taoyuan Lantern Festival, Taiwan, China”, inviting people to wear Hanfu and visit the lantern festival, but the words “Taiwan, China” are But it attracted a lot of criticism from netizens.

▲Huang Qionghui once again caught up with the vendors who hosted the “Hanfu Culture Week” in Xitang Ancient Town last year, and they are the same vendors as this year’s Taoyuan Lantern Festival. (Photo/Provided by Taoyuan City Councilor Huang Qionghui)

City Councilor Huang Qionghui provided two comparative photos to “Sanli News Network”. One was a poster for the “Hanfu Culture Week” held in Xitang Ancient Town last year. The organizer was “Beijing Chinese Territory Culture Media Co., Ltd.”, and the other was this year’s The logo of the organizer of the Taoyuan Lantern Festival is also “Beijing Chinese Territory Culture Media Co., Ltd.”, which directly criticized the Taoyuan City Government for canceling the show, “using administrative resources to debase themselves while showing sincerity to China,” and believed that “Taiwan, China” and other The words should not appear in the promotional video for the Taoyuan Lantern Festival at all.

▲Famous lyricist Fang Wenshan has promoted Hanfu for many years, and this time he also promoted the Taoyuan Lantern Festival. (Picture/reproduced from Taiwan Hanfu Culture Recommendation Official Facebook)

Huang Qionghui pointed out that she had never understood why the Taoyuan Lantern Festival promoted Fang Wenshan’s Hanfu performance as a key promotional item. After all, it had nothing to do with the Lantern Festival. “It turned out to be a hypocritical lie to tell you that I could cosplay ancient people and experience a time-travel drama.” The feeling of the male and female protagonists is that they are actually cooperating with China in the cultural united front.” She was also dumbfounded. “In the Hanfu experience, it was found that the entire city government was cooperating with China to dwarf itself, which is really unacceptable.”

In response to this, the Taoyuan City Government pointed out that all promotional videos related to the Taoyuan Lantern Festival must be reviewed by the city government, but the content of this Facebook fan page (Taiwan Hanfu Culture Recommendation Officer) is for private enthusiasts to exchange information about Hanfu activities around the world. The Tourism and Tourism Bureau has no authorization and no right to interfere. It has no prior knowledge of the video and does not agree with promoting the Taoyuan Lantern Festival and Hanfu activities in this way. Regarding the video posted by the Facebook fan page, the Tourism and Tourism Bureau once again stated I cannot agree that culture and art need a pure development environment, and folk vitality also needs more space. Any political labels and discussions should not appear in cultural activities.

2024-02-22 06:01:00
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