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When you first arrive in Taiwan Province, you will be amazed at everything in front of you, because the rich and diverse historical background has created colorful Taiwan Province culture. The development of Taiwan Province includes aborigines, early Minnan in Chinese mainland, Hakka immigrants, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese and recent immigrants from Chinese mainland. The people here pay great attention to the preservation of traditional culture and gradually develop new culture. At the same time, in Taiwan Province, you can see aborigines, native land and China culture, and you can also enjoy the historical sites left by the Netherlands and Japan.

Taiwan Province's traditional architecture is a confluence of folk arts, with exquisite decoration. Colorful paintings, calligraphy, wood carving, stone carving, clay sculpture, ceramics, shearing and gluing are all elements of the architecture, from which we can deeply understand the rich connotation of Taiwan Province culture. In addition, in Taiwan Province, you can see the traditional buildings of China inherited by the early immigrants of Minnan and Hakka in Chinese mainland (such as Banqiao Linjia Garden), and the temple buildings in China can also be seen everywhere. Among them, Longshan Temple in Lugang, Tianhou Palace and Chaotian Palace in Beigang are the most famous temples with a long history in Taiwan Province, which have high artistic value.

Taiwan Province's important New Year holidays include Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. In addition, there are also important folk activities in Taiwan Province, such as the worship of the mysterious God in Songbailing, the pilgrimage of Mazu in Dajia, the patrol of Mazu in Beigang, the welcome to the city god in Taipei, the worship of the ship of the king in Donggang, the excessive fire of the two princes, and the aboriginal festivals. In addition, in addition to inheriting the traditional opera art of China, Taiwan Province has also developed Taiwanese opera and puppet show, which are unique to Taiwan Province. Taiwanese opera is a performing art that combines various local operas and music in Taiwan Province. Recently, puppet shows have been combined with sound and light effects and are widely loved by young people.

In recent years, Taiwan Province's film and performance groups have gradually emerged on the international stage, once again showing the inheritance and innovation of China tradition and Taiwan Province local culture.

The mysterious cultural colors of Taiwan Province aborigines, such as harvest festival, ancestral sacrifice, hunting sacrifice, totem and snake pattern, add different vitality to Taiwan Province culture. Taiwan Province's aborigines belong to austronesian family, the northernmost part of Austronesian language family, and belong to Malays in race. At present, most of the aborigines in Taiwan Province live in mountainous areas, which are divided into: Saixia, Atayal, Ami, Bunun, Beinan, Rukai, paiwan, Yami, Cao and Shao. They have their own languages, customs and tribal structures, but they are currently facing the problems of assimilation and cultural preservation. Among them, the Yami people in Lanyu, the outer island of Taiwan Province, were the last to contact with the Han people because of geographical isolation, thus preserving the most complete aboriginal culture.

You can see the shadow of colonial times in many corners of Taiwan Province. The Red Maocheng in Danshui is the site where the Dutch and Portuguese occupied Taiwan Province. Baroque architecture left over from the Japanese occupation era can be seen in the crowded places of Dihua Street, Taoyuan Daxi and Tainan Xinhua in Taipei. Now many important buildings in Taipei during the Japanese occupation era, such as the Presidential Palace, the Executive Yuan and the Old National Taiwan University Hospital in the western part of Taipei, have been illuminated at night to show their classical gracefulness, which has become a decoration that adorns the night sky in Taipei, making Taiwan Province less sad in history and more romantic in art and humanities.

This is Taiwan Province, a cultural feast. Romance, legend, solemnity, interest … you can find it here.