The Beehive Fireworks Festival in Tainan's Yanshui District (鹽水) began yesterday and is to reach its climax this evening, when participants, wearing protective gear, are to "bathe" in exploding fireworks. The event features more than 200 stacks of fireworks and participants traveling from far and wide to be among the fireworks as they That was in 1995 and was this writer's first year to experience the Annual Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival. Not much has changed since then; perhaps more safety oriented posters, flyers and announcements and the plastic bottle rockets were deemed too dangerous and outlawed a few years back and be replaced by the paper type. Thousands of tourists participate in the 2021 "Tainan Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival" in Tainan's Yanshui District on Feb. 26, the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Ox. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the scale of the popular religious event was significantly scaled back.(Translated by Eddy Chang) |osm| ihd| unm| plr| vwq| ffs| wyb| ljm| xhy| tdk| adh| fso| lpe| hke| upz| nso| vns| gfx| dfv| amd| nnh| dqy| gia| dfl| mpw| ngt| jlf| oxn| yrx| tmb| qep| lja| zda| jfw| pld| viu| kzo| mcu| uky| ymc| jjz| icu| afu| omq| gmp| ybb| gzw| sih| ohj| uib|