Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival 2020 | pingxi festival
ExperiencethemagicofthePingxiSkyLanternFestivalinFebruarywhenthousandsofglowinglightsfloatupintotheinkblackskyabovethesmallhillsidevillageofShifeninnorthernTaiwan.AfewyearsagoTheDiscoveryChannelnamedthePingxiSkyLanternFestivaloneofthebestfestivalsfromaroundtheplanetwhilein2016NationalGeographiclisteditamongthe10bestwintertripsworldwide.TakingplaceduringthefirstfullmoonoftheChineseLunarNewYear–adatethatchangeseveryyear–thePingxiSkyLanternFestivalattractstensofthousandsofvisitorstothesmallhill...
Experience the magic of the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival in February when thousands of glowing lights float up into the ink black sky above the small hillside village of Shifen in northern Taiwan.
A few years ago The Discovery Channel named the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival one of the best festivals from around the planet while in 2016 National Geographic listed it among the 10 best winter trips worldwide. Taking place during the first full moon of the Chinese Lunar New Year – a date that changes every year – the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the small hillside town of Shifeng to release an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 glowing rice paper lanterns into the nocturnal skies.
According to popular legend, the sky lantern was first invented during the Three Kingdoms period (220AD – 280AD) by the statesman Zhuge Lian to send military signals. Growing over time in popularity, by the early nineteenth century the sky lantern arrived in Taiwan w...