(12 Feb 2025)
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New Taipei City, Taiwan – 12 February 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of a release of lanterns at Pingxi District in New Taipei City
2. Various of people holding the main lantern with auspicious inscriptions related with the Year of the Snake and it turning around
3. Various of a release of lanterns
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Charlotte Cadinot, 19 years old French female student (screen left) and Rémi Delmas, 19 myears old French male student (screen right):
Rémi Delmas: “So we decided to come here to share a message of both of us as a couple. Just to send it in the air and maybe…”
Charlotte Cadinot: “We will see the light in the sky…”
Rémi Delmas: “We wanted just to see the magic of the lanterns in the skies. That is maybe a great thing to see. We wanted to see this from a year ago, so maybe that’s a great event today.”
Charlotte Cadinot: “Maybe it’s a childhood dream for me because I have a reference, it’s the Rapunzel movie (Disney movie is ‘Tangled’), yeah, and it’s the same scene, maybe more little (smaller) but it’s the same mood, it’s the same, voila.”
5. Various of two main snake lanterns
6. Various of people holding two main snake lanterns and turning them around
7. Wide of releasing of lanterns
8. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yumi Kajiwa, Japanese visitor:
“We knew about this event via social media such as Instagram. I think the lanterns are really beautiful, this is why we decided to come here and release lanterns. We would like to write wishes like ‘live happily every day’ and ‘to meet again when back in Japan and spend good time together’.”
9. Various of releasing of lanterns
10. Various of a woman holding a lantern before releasing it
11. Festival staff lighting a lantern with a gas torch
12. Main lantern turning around
13. Wide pan right of lanterns in the sky
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people, both Taiwanese and visitors, celebrated the Lantern Festival in New Taipei City’s Pingxi District by releasing hundreds of sky lanterns of all colours that lit up the dark sky despite the continuous spring rain.
The colourful lanterns used to signify safety after bandits raided remote villages in northern Taiwan centuries ago. Now, they are an event captured by many social media users that draws thousands of visitors from around the world to a mountainous district north of the capital Taipei.
Tourists and local families lined up in the rain to light up wish lanterns on Wednesday at Taiwan’s largest event celebrating the Lantern Festival – a holiday that marks the end of the Lunar New Year period and which is celebrated annually on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar.
Some visitors came from as far as Europe to witness in person the iconic images of paper lanterns filling the night sky.
For Charlotte Cadinot, an exchange student from France, the fascination with wish lanterns started when she watched the Disney movie Tangled, which features a scene where the princess and her beau wish upon lanterns floating above a lake.
Cadinot and her boyfriend, Remi Delmas, recreated that scene to an extent when they wrote their own common wish as couple on a lantern before releasing it into the sky.
“We wanted just to see the magic of the lanterns in the skies. That is maybe a great thing to see. We wanted to see this from a year ago, so… that’s a great event today", said Cadinot.
AP Video by Taijing Wu
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