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Sharing films, festival, music in TaiwanShuan Liu

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Films-KANOA Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

Under Japanese rule, an underdog high school baseball team from southern Taiwan defeats the heretofore superior northern teams and wins a rare opportunity to represent the colony in the 1931 empire-wide tournament. Comprised of Taiwanese, Taiwanese aboriginals and Japanese players, "Kan," the Kagi Nourin School team, must integrate the ethnically mixed roster and make the best of its unique strengths to not just survive but thrive in the elite league.

More than a hundred years have passed since the Japanese first played a baseball game on Taiwan soil and the sport continues to flourish in Taiwan.National pride may no longer rest on fast economic growth rates nor on Taiwans being Silicon Islandbut yes, a baseball island. National dignity has found another rallying point and its a sport thats bound to stay for another hundred years.

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Films- Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq BaleAn indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.

Its story is based on the little-known Wushe Incident in 1930, when 300 warriors of the Seediq, an aboriginal people centered in Taiwans interior highlands, rose up against their Japanese oppressors. A brief historical preface explains that in 1895, the island of Taiwan was ceded by China to Japan, which subdued the native population and turned them into demoralized, alcoholic slaves. Steeped in mysticism, tribal folklore and Asian machismo, the film is a two-and-a-half-hour bloodbath that fetishizes the machete as the ultimate human slicing machine.

The Seediq believed that a true man dies on the battlefield, that anyone who tried to enter the heavenly hunting ground without blood on his hands would be turned away, declares a solemn narrator. The ideal Seediq male, Mouna Rudo (Lin Ching-Tai), a tribal chief, is a wise, fearless warrior who heeds ancient traditions. The youthful Mouna (played by Da Ching) is shown receiving a painful facial tattoo certifying his first decapitation. The ritual makes him a Seediq Bale, a hero able to cross a rainbow bridge to the ancestral mountain summit.

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Music- Bng Tshun-hong

Tok i b pha si teng-, chheng-hong ti bn chheChap-chhit-poeh, be chhut-k, k-tioh siu-lin-keK-jin piau-t bn-bah peh, si ke lng ch-tSi-boeh mng i kia phi-s, sim-li ta p-p

Si-boeh ling-kun choh ang-si, -i chi sim-liThi h-s, kun li chhi, chheng-chhun hoe tg khaiHut thia ga-thu lng li, khui-mng kai kha-biGoat-l chhi gn gng-ta-tai, h hong phin m-chai

Bng Chhun-hongis aTaiwanese Hokkiensong.The title literally means "Longing for the Spring Breeze".

At night waiting alone under a dim lamp, with the spring breeze blowing on my cheeks,I, an unmarried maiden of seventeen going on eighteen, see a young man.I see he has a handsome face and a pale complexion; I wonder which family he is from?Wanting to ask him yet fearing embarrassment, my heart flutters as if it were a pipa being strummed.

Wishing him to be the groom of mine, with love inside my heart.Waiting, wondering when my beau might come to gather my blooming flowers of youth.Suddenly I hear someone outside, and I open the door to see,The old man under the moon laughs at my foolishness, for I did not realize it was just the wind.

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Bng Chhun-hong is a Taiwanese Hokkien song composed by Teng Yu-hsien,[1] a Hakka Taiwanese musician, and written by Lee Lin-chiu.[1] The song was one of their representative works. It was released by the Columbia Records in 1933, and originally sung by some female singers at that time, such as Sun-Sun (),[2] Ai-Ai () or Iam-Iam (). The title literally means "Longing for the Spring Breeze".Bng Chhun-hong was once rewritten into a Japanese patriotic song as "Daichi wa maneku" (Japanese: ),[3] literally means "The Mother Earth is Calling on You". It was written by Koshiji Shirou (?) and sung by Kirishima Noboru (?). The song has also been released in Japan by Hitoto Yo,[4] a Japanese pop singer. Many Taiwanese singers who usually sing in Chinese had sung the Bng Chhun-hong, such as Teresa Teng, Maya Showlen (), Feng Fei-fei and Stella Chang (). An adapted version which work and sung by David Tao was also emitted.Since the song was published, some films of the same name had released, such as a 1937 film directed by Andou Tarou (?),[5] and a 1977 film which has an English name called "The Operations of Spring Wind". Bng Chhun-hong is commonly used as background music in Taiwanese films or teleplays. It is also a theme in the soundtrack of Singapore Dreaming,[6] a 2006 released Singaporean film.There is a biographical novel of the same name that written by Chung Chao-cheng,[7] a Hakka writer. The novel does not describe about the song, instead, it depicts the life of Teng Yu-hsien, the composer.

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Music- Rain

Traditional Hakka folksonThe song describe Taiwanese works on the rainy day.

The music of Taiwan reflects the diverse culture of Taiwanese people. Taiwan has undergone several economic, social and changes through its cultural history and Taiwanese music reflects those issues in their own way. The music of this country has adopted a mixed style. As a country rich in Chinese folk culture and with many indigenous tribes with their own distinct artistic identity, various styles of folk music are appreciated in Taiwan. In addition, Western classical music and pop music in various forms are highly appreciated by the Taiwanese population.

Taiwanese opera is popular among the Hakka, and has influenced thetea-picking operagenre. The most distinctive form of Hakka music are mountain songs, orshan'ge, which are similar to Hengchun folk music.

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Music- Clap your hands Aboriginal musicOf the two broad divisions of Taiwanese aborigines, the plains-dwellers have been largely assimilated into Han culture, while the mountain-dwelling tribes remain distinct. The Amis, Bunun, Paiwan, Rukai and Tsou are known for their polyphonic vocals, of which each has a unique variety.

Once dying, aboriginal culture has undergone a renaissance since the late 20th century. A full-time aboriginal radio station, "Ho-hi-yan" was launched in 2005[5] with the help of the Executive Yuan, to focus on issues of interest to the indigenous community. [Listen to Ho-hi-yan; requires Windows Media Player 9]. This came on the heels of a "New wave of Indigenous Pop,"[6] as aboriginal artists such as A-mei (Puyuma tribe), Difang (Amis tribe), Pur-dur and Samingad (Puyuma) became international pop stars.

The 1991 formation of the Formosa Aboriginal Dance Troupe was another major contributor to this trend, while the surprise mainstream success of "Return to Innocence", the theme song to the 1996 Olympic Games, further popularized native musics. "Return to Innocence" was made by Enigma, a popular musical project and sampled the voices of an elderly Amis couple, Kuo Ying-nan and Kuo Hsiu-chu. When the couple found out that their recording had become part of an international hit, they filed suit and, in 1999, settled out of court for an unidentified amount.[7]6

Festival- Yanshui beehive Festival This notorious event is the world-renowned Yanshuei Fireworks Festival, also known as the Beehive Rockets Festival, held annually in Yanshuei, an otherwise unheard-of town with a population of less than 30,000.

The fireworks festival is not your typical eye-catching, splendid-looking fireworks display in the conventional sense. It is arguably the worlds only audience-participation fireworks event, as termed by local media, where thousands of fireworks and rockets are fired at and into those who are watching.This century-old tradition has been held annually since 1885 around the 15th day after the commencement of the Lunar New Year. This day is known as the Lantern Festival and marks the last day of Chinese New Year festivities.In fact, for over a hundred years now families in Yanshuei have gotten together long before the date of the Lantern Festival to start building castles of firecrackers, van-sized wooden structures or frames composed of shelves packed with thousands of fireworks.When the festival begins, tens of thousands of firecrackers erupt from the wooden frames, and rockets scream in every direction. The spectacular scene is like a swarm of angry bees rushing from their hive to attack and sting any flesh standing in their way. This is when the Beehive Rocket Festival lives up to its name.

People are dressed in a full-face motorcycle helmet, gloves and thick jacket, plus robust footwear and pants. They have even put a towel around his neck. They are heading to the small town of Yanshuei, to wait anxiously for the beginning of one of the most exciting and highly anticipated folk activities in Taiwan to kick off.

The somewhat strange outfit is the only attire appropriate as a necessary precaution for attending the folk tradition, as this is perhaps one of the most dangerous folk activities on the island - or in the world. The annual casualties here easily reach a dozens of injuries, and thus the event is comparable to the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain in terms of danger and excitement.7

Festival- Yanshui beehive Festival

The fireworks festival is not your typical eye-catching, splendid-looking fireworks display in the conventional sense. It is arguably the worlds only audience-participation fireworks event, as termed by local media, where thousands of fireworks and rockets are fired at and into those who are watching.This century-old tradition has been held annually since 1885 around the 15th day after the commencement of the Lunar New Year. This day is known as the Lantern Festival and marks the last day of Chinese New Year festivities.In fact, for over a hundred years now families in Yanshuei have gotten together long before the date of the Lantern Festival to start building castles of firecrackers, van-sized wooden structures or frames composed of shelves packed with thousands of fireworks.When the festival begins, tens of thousands of firecrackers erupt from the wooden frames, and rockets scream in every direction. The spectacular scene is like a swarm of angry bees rushing from their hive to attack and sting any flesh standing in their way. This is when the Beehive Rocket Festival lives up to its name.

People are dressed in a full-face motorcycle helmet, gloves and thick jacket, plus robust footwear and pants. They have even put a towel around his neck. They are heading to the small town of Yanshuei, to wait anxiously for the beginning of one of the most exciting and highly anticipated folk activities in Taiwan to kick off.

The somewhat strange outfit is the only attire appropriate as a necessary precaution for attending the folk tradition, as this is perhaps one of the most dangerous folk activities on the island - or in the world. The annual casualties here easily reach a dozens of injuries, and thus the event is comparable to the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain in terms of danger and excitement.8

Festival- Matsu pilgrimage A legend says that in the year 960 during the Song Dynasty, a girl born to a fishing family never cried as a baby, so her parents named her Lin Mo-niang (), which means silent maiden.

This is one sketch among many of Matsus early life as a mortal. When Fujian settlers came to Taiwan for a better life, they brought Matsu, Goddess of the Sea, along with them to cross the Taiwan Strait, or the black ditch, a metaphor that symbolizes the hardships settlers had to go through.

She is the most prominent folk deity in Taiwan, worshipped by a large number of followers in around 200 temples, while several hundred more worship her along with other Taoist or Buddhist deities. Local peoples devotion toward Matsu is world-renowned. A governmentproduced documentary titled MatsuTaiwans Guardian Goddess won a Platinum Remi Award in the 35th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival in 2002.

March is Matsu monthMarch is the month for Matsu devotees since her birthday falls on March 23rd of the lunar calendar. Celebrations in many forms are held in Matsu temples, or Tien Hau temples (), a general name that refers to temples where Matsu is worshipped, all over Taiwan.

Dajia Matsu pilgrimage: largest Matsu worship activityBuilt in the 1770s, Jhen-lan Templein Dajia Township, Taichung County is an integral part of Matsu worship in Taiwan. The temple houses a Matsu statuette from Meichou Island, the birth place of Lin Mo-niang. Up until the end of the 19th century, Taiwanese made pilgrimages to Meichou every twelve years (another data indicates the interval was 20 years). Unlike Baishatun Matsu, Dajia pilgrimage has a fixed route and timetable. It lasts 8 days, and the stops along the way are predetermined. During the procession, food and beverage are prepared by local residents to greet her and the entourage. The route stretches more than 300 kilometers from Jhen-lan Temple to Fengtien Templein Chiayis Hsinkang Township. The pilgrimage tradition goes back to ancient times, when it was a local religious activity. Since the mid 1980s, when Jhen-lan Temple leaders worked with people from political circles as well as the press, the annual pilgrimage grew to be the largest one in Taiwan. Each year, a few hundred thousand participants bring considerable revenue to the local economy. A Dajia Matsu Culture Festival launched by Taichung County Government with the aim of introducing Matsu worship to the world has been held annually since 1997. This year, a cycling event preceded the festival on February 21st. The festival which featured Taiwanese opera, puppet shows and Chinese orchestra performances served as a warm up to kick off the pilgrimage on March 21st. 9

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