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Fengpao
The firework festival is held in a district in Tainan, Taiwan, which was ever prosperous Yuejin Harbor once.
The harbor is in the district. It was the forth largest harbor of Taiwan in Ching-Dynasty.
The annual event commemorates a cholera epidemic more than a century ago, the fireworks symbolizing the
exorcism of demons associated with the plague. The festival, known as Feng Pao, is celebrated on the 15th day
after the beginning of the Lunar New Year, also called Shang Yuan Festival.
Tradition has it that the "beehive fireworks" originated in July/August, 1885 as a cholera epidemic raged
in the streets of Yanshui. Owing to the underdeveloped state of medicine at the time, victims of the disease
multiplied daily and the local population lived in fear, praying to Guan Di, the god of war, to bring an end
to this calamity and save them.
Thus on Lantern Festival evening, Guan Di appointed General Zhou Cang as his guide, with Guan Di's palanquin
bringing up the rear. Following the palanquin were multitudes of the faithful setting off firecrackers along
the road, winding their way throughout the city until the break of dawn, ridding themselves of this plague
in one fell swoop.
From that time onward, future generations followed this precedent, asking Guan Di to patrol the streets on
the evening of the Lantern Festival. The "Yanshui Beehive Fireworks" event consists of a circuit around the
outskirts of the town by palanquins, each symbolically armed to the teeth, with thousands of local inhabitants
and visitors clustered around them as they slowly wind their way through the streets.
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鹽水蜂炮 炮城統計 ( 2022.02.12 統計 )
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A
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三福路 (阿嘉)
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2
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陳志豪 0926-835239
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大眾廟
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1
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長成宮牌樓 (正忠機車前)
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1
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北帝殿
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5
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B
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龍護宮
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2
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陳啟誌 0926-560000
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武廟路
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3
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C
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福安宮
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5
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張陸霖 0931-719511
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地藏王廟
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2
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七歲姑娘
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3
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土庫上帝廟
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1
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三王宮
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2
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D
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武廟前
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15
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蔡竣曜 0958-339171
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操場
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4
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福南宮 (四頂)
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8
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北華宮 (兩頂)
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5
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合計
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59
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Designed by：James Chen.