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Cultural Festival will begin at

孔fuciusTemple

The 2011 Tainan

9/28

The ceremony worshipping the greatest teacher Confucius is called Shidian Ceremony, which means besides music and dance during the rite, sacrifices and liquors are offered to show esteem of Confucius. The famous Bayi Dance or Liouyi Dance is the highest esteem to Confucius during the Shidian Ceremony. The ceremony will begin by 9/28 5am in the morning with 108 beats of drum, and lasts within an hour. The most exciting part people expected among the ceremony is the "taking the hair of wisdom". The hair of wisdom is actually hair from the cows that are sacrificed for the Shidian Ceremony, and people believe of gaining wisdom by taking the hair from the sacrifices enjoyed by Confucius. Hence, lots of people are attracted to join this activity. Currently, Tainan Confucius Temple is one of the few temples that offer to sacrifice cows for people to take the hair of wisdom.

The annual Tainan Confucius Ceremony will be held during the Teachers' Day (9/28). Ever since the merging of Tainan City and Tainan County, and for celebrating the greatest teacher Confucius' 2651st birthday, a big worshipping ceremony will be held by following the old etiquette at Tainan Confucius Temple. Over 300 years, Tainan Confucius Temple is always keeping this tradition which holding ceremonies during spring and autumn, while the one in autumn is the most important one. This year, in order to popularize the Confucianists, the event has extended. Besides the worshipping ceremony and Dacheng holy worshipping, there will also be series of activities like Yi Dance study camp, Confucius Temple tour guide, and theme lectures, for people to understand more about the history and cultural meaning of Tainan Confucius Temple.

photos by Max Chang, 棟樑‧Harry‧黃基峰‧Taiwan, 溫暖魚@flickr

There is an old man in Tainan who tailor-made a super cool

LED costume. Recently, he wears this LED costume and wanders

around by driving his scooter; this move attracts many people to

come and ask for taking a group picture with him. To date,

around 500 people have taken pictures with him.

The costume contains 7 different colors, so it easily catches people’s

attention when he is wandering around wearing this costume on streets. Lots of passerby blocks him

to take pictures when they see him on the streets. He also enjoys being under the spotlight, and he

makes numerous poses to take group pictures with passerby. This LED costume includes a triangular

LED helmet, a vest and accessories which can be worn on arms and legs. It looks like a colorful

suit of armor, and some of passerby thought it was a moveable roadblock when they saw him at the

first time.

Land Certificatein 20 Minutes

The e-Land system is made of 2 parts, one opemed for the public and one for the City Government workers. Whether you want to find out about how to buy or sell a particular land, or if the estate is permitted to build high-rise buildings, You'll be able to acquire such informa-tion online.tion online.

Mayor Lai says that there are 2 funda-mental structures in Tainan that needs doing. One being a total revision of the land usage, the other would be a metro transportation system. **If we get these tasks done, then we can say this is a developed city".**

LESSON 11. TUTTI FRUITTI

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Now that we are heading to Autumn, what are the fruits that are ripe? Pomelo, pears, cutstard apple are just a few examples.Find out more: http://www.tlsa.org.tw/p2c-8.htm

蘋果 [ㄆㄥˇ ㄍㄡˋ/ pon gor]：Apple

香蕉 [ㄍ一ㄣ ㄐ一ㄡ/ gin zior]: Banana

芭樂 [ㄅㄚˊ ㄌㄚˋ/ ba la]: Guava

西瓜 [ㄒ一 ㄍㄨㄟ/ xi gue]: Watermelon

芒果 [ㄙㄨㄞ ㄚ/ suai aa]: Mango

柚子 [一ㄡˊ ㄚ/ you aa]: Pomelo

橘子 [ㄍㄚㄇ ㄇㄚˋ/ gaam ma]: Mandarin 橘子 [ㄍㄚㄇ ㄇㄚˋ/ gaam ma]: Mandarin

荔枝 [ㄋㄞˇ ㄐ一/ nai zi]: Lychee

水梨子 [ㄗㄨ一 ㄌㄞˊ ㄚ/ zui lie aa]: Pear

INTRODUCTION

Have you noticed that Taiwan has such an exotic selections of fruits? And almost

every few months you get to try a fruit that is right in the season, while be able to

buy all others as well, due to the warm weather. Fruits are great for you, let’s learn

how to say them in Taiwanese.

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