元宵燈籠 Red lanterns during the Lantern Festival (CN: Yuan Xiao / HK: Yuen Siu) / 台灣台北士林夜市 Shilin Night Market, Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140210.6D.30696
Chinese celebrates the Lantern Festival (元宵節) [1] on the fifteenth day of the first month the lunar calendar. It is celebrated because it is the first full moon of that lunisolar year.
It is customary during this festival to hang lots of colorful lanterns for people to appreciate. Word puzzles are often written directly on these lanterns to be solved with prizes to be won. I do not see any riddles here, but if you look closely, you will see that the lanterns are marked with individualised numbers, which suggests that the puzzles may very well be present inside.
These were seen at a temple [2] filled with festive red lanterns while I was walking around the Shilin Night Market (士林夜市).
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM. Processed in Lightroom 5.
# Notes
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Festival
2. As suggested earlier, temples appear to pop up everywhere unexpectedly in Taipei.
元宵燈籠 Red lanterns during the Lantern Festival (CN: Yuan Xiao / HK: Yuen Siu) / 台灣台北士林夜市 Shilin Night Market, Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140210.6D.30696
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元宵燈籠 Red lanterns during the Lantern Festival (CN: Yuan Xiao / HK: Yuen Siu) / 台灣台北士林夜市 Shilin Night Market, Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140210.6D.30696
Chinese celebrates the Lantern Festival (元宵節) [1] on the fifteenth day of the first month the lunar calendar. It is celebrated because it is the first full moon of that lunisolar year.
It is customary during this festival to hang lots of colorful lanterns for people to appreciate. Word puzzles are often written directly on these lanterns to be solved with prizes to be won. I do not see any riddles here, but if you look closely, you will see that the lanterns are marked with individualised numbers, which suggests that the puzzles may very well be present inside.
These were seen at a temple [2] filled with festive red lanterns while I was walking around the Shilin Night Market (士林夜市).
Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM. Processed in Lightroom 5.
# Notes
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Festival
2. As suggested earlier, temples appear to pop up everywhere unexpectedly in Taipei.
元宵燈籠 Red lanterns during the Lantern Festival (CN: Yuan Xiao / HK: Yuen Siu) / 台灣台北士林夜市 Shilin Night Market, Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140210.6D.30696
/ #台灣 #臺灣 #Taiwan #台北 #Taipei #SMLTravel #旅遊 #旅游 #Travel #CreativeCommons #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
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