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The 2015 New Taipei City Happy Christmas Town event came to a close on January 3, 2016. Carrying on this joyful and heartwarming atmosphere, the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival—the most internationally representative event in Taiwan—will follow with a lively celebration during the Lunar New Year holiday. To warm up for the “2016 New Taipei City Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival,” an interactive activity called “Childlike Fingerprints Sky Lantern” was set up at the New Taipei City Civic Plaza from 1 pm to 5 pm on January 1–3 during the New Year’s holiday. Participants who completed the stamping activity received a small souvenir.

The “2016 New Taipei City Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival” breaks away from previous visual designs. The main visual features illustrations created in a purely hand-drawn style by an illustrator, specially incorporating fingerprint art to convey the warm and happy imagery of sky lanterns. Each person’s fingerprint is unique, symbolizing that the wishes written on the lanterns are the most special ones belonging to each individual. Abroad, newlyweds often invite guests to leave fingerprints on a wishing tree as blessings. For the 2016 Sky Lantern Festival, it is hoped that countless fingerprints will carry abundant blessings up to the heavens.

The first event of the Sky Lantern Festival centers around the theme of “childlike fun,” inviting everyone to help complete the Eight TN main lantern. Therefore, during the New Year’s holiday, the “Childlike Fingerprints Sky Lantern” activity was held to collect fingerprints from both children and adults, jointly creating the design for the first main lantern. The abundance of blessed fingerprints will then ascend with the main lantern, spreading happiness across the world.

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2016 New Taipei City Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival

The first event is on February 11 (the fourth day of the Lunar New Year) at Jing Tong Elementary School, the second on February 14 (Valentine’s Day) at Pingxi Junior High School, and the third on February 22 (Lantern Festival) at Shifen Square.

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