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List Of Festivals In Taiwan
The following is an incomplete list of festivals in Taiwan, of all types. Festivals in Taiwan *Pulima Art Festival *Simple Life Festival *Taipei International TV Market & Forum *Taiwan Lantern Festival *Taiwan Youth Day Film festivals in Taiwan *Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards *Kaohsiung Film Festival *Taipei Film Festival *Taiwan International Documentary Festival *Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival *Taiwan International Queer Film Festival *Women Make Waves Folk festivals in Taiwan *Double Ninth Festival *Double Third Festival *Flying fish festival *Harvest Festival (Taiwan), Harvest Festival *Mid-Autumn Festival *Weiya *Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival *Zhong Yuan Festival Garden festivals in Taiwan *Taichung World Flora Exposition *Taipei International Flora Exposition Music festivals in Taiwan *Amis Music Festival *Beigang International Music Festival *Formoz Festival *Hohaiyan Rock Festival *Megaport Music Festival *Spring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festivals
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
