2013 Taiwan Lantern Festival will be held in Hsinchu County. Main subject will be "animation, technology, and culture", which represent Hsinchu County's local cultural characteristics. Hsinchu County Government also creates a website for "2013 Taiwan Lantern Festival in Hsinchu County" through multi-media and video streaming as well as social network activities.

Photos and videos can be viewed through streaming multi-media on website easily. In addition, Hsinchu County Government will broadcast 2013 Lantern Festival's opening and closing ceremonies via video streaming to global audience. 2013 Lantern Festival will bring a new kind of light and shadow show to the audience. It uses a mixture of light and shadow movement and different rhythm to generate the sense of speed, which generates a brand new visual treat to all visitors and is quite different from traditional lantern exhibition.

Hsinchu County Government plans to promote this lantern festival through a series of activities on Facebook, such as "Who is Lantern Festival Representative?" , "SHE fans activity", "Photo & Video Contests"...etc. People can also learn the cultural meaning of this lantern festival through the website. We welcome everyone to visit the following websites:

Contact person for above news–ChungYao Wang–staff

HuiHong Sheng–section chief

General Development Department

Hsinchu County Government

Tel.#03-5518101 ext.3750...

Read more： http://w3.hsinchu.gov.tw/bilingual/news/upt_f.asp?p0=12607