TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taipei County said Monday it will ask the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization directly to list the Pinghsi Sky Lantern Festival as World Cultural Heritage.
The sky lanterns were originally released into the air by residents of the mountain village to let relatives in other areas know they had arrived safely. The annual event features lanterns decorated with the names of the owners and with colorful pictures and verses. The county’s move follows a rejection by the central government’s Cultural Affairs Commission, which reasoned that since Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations, it cannot apply to UNESCO. The county government was drawing up an English-language application document which it would send to UNESCO early next year, said Li Pin, the director of Taipei County’s Department of Cultural Affairs. Since Taiwan is not an official member of the world body, the county would use the name of “Taipei County Government, Republic of China” for its application, Li said. The county would also work in tandem with the central government’s support for an international campaign to have the original Chinese characters used in Taiwan and Hong Kong listed as part of World Cultural Heritage. Li said the county also planned to invite representatives from UNESCO to the next edition of the Sky Lantern Festival, which starts from Chinese Lunar New Year on January 26. In addition to its international campaign, the county would also still pressure the central government to recognize Pinghsi’s festival as a piece of national cultural heritage, Li said
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so... I am planning to go to Ping Xi again this year .... I was there in 2007 ..and it was magnificent when more than hundreds of sky lanterns floating slowly up into the nightly sky .... it was so quiet and peacful ...
though ... it took us a long time to get there and to get out of there ... because of the huge crowd :)
前年去平溪參加過大型天燈活動後 一直念念不忘那種像銀河般無數天燈慢慢升上夜空的景象 很感動ㄟ
不過
因為交通管制以及一大堆人潮之下 去跟離開都需要很多的毅力與耐力 ...... 哈
今年有人要去嗎 1/31 , 2/7 還有 2/9 都有喔
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