- Title: Lanterns flood the night sky in Taiwan
- Date: 24th September 2018
- Summary: NEW TAIPEI CITY, TAIWAN (SEPTEMBER 24, 2018) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** SKY LANTERNS TAKING OFF VARIOUS OF LANTERNS ASCENDING TO SKY (MUTE) TIME LAPSE VIDEO SHOWING SKY LANTERNS BEING SET OFF (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) 21-YEAR-OLD EXCHANGE STUDENT, GAO ZIHAN, SAYING: "I wished for good health for my family members, success in my studies and that I can become more and more beautiful and earn more money." SKY LANTERN BEING LIT SKY LANTERN BEING PREPARED PARTICIPANT LOOKING ON LANTERNS BEING RELEASED TO SKY SKY LANTERNS IN THE SKY PARTICIPANTS CHEERING AFTER RELEASING LANTERNS TO SKY LANTERNS BEING RELEASED LANTERN FLYING IN THE SKY PARTICIPANTS WRITING WISHES ON LANTERNS WISHES WRITTEN ON LANTERN PARTICIPANT HOLDING LANTERN WHILE POSING FOR PHOTO (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) 43-YEAR-OLD WANG REN-HUNG, SAYING: "I wanted to bring my friends (to the Sky Lantern festival) to experience this moving feeling because it is an important festival in Taiwan, a festival of culture and an important event to wish for good fortune for all people."
- Embargoed: 8th October 2018 17:11
- Keywords: Taiwan lanterns colourful skies New Taipei
- Location: NEW TAIPEI CITY, TAIWAN
- City: NEW TAIPEI CITY, TAIWAN
- Country: Taiwan
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA0018YZI061
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Locals and foreign visitors gathered to celebrate the mid-autumn festival in Pinghsi, Taiwan, on Monday (September 24), releasing hundreds of flying lanterns that lit up the night sky.
The mountainous village has a long history of releasing flying lanterns, which were first used as a means of communication between villagers and later were sent as wishes for the coming year.
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the sky lantern festival.
Environment protection groups have criticized sky lantern events in the past for generating too much plastic waste in the mountains close to the event site, although according to the organisers measures have been taken to clean up and recycle the trash. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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