Mouse is ranked the first year followed by the other 11 designating animals. The mouse year is considered a new start for the many great changes to follow. The Taipei Dragon Boat Festival has become an international event, and the lantern presents a cheerful and interesting scene of the dragon boat competition between the mouse team and the kid's team.
Artwork Theme:
The mouse's wedding
Artist:
Hua Deng Lin International Co., Ltd. Chien-Er Lin
Sponsor:
Wunchang Temple
Mouse is ranked the first year followed by the other 11 designating animals. The mouse year is considered a new start for the many great changes to follow. The Taipei Dragon Boat Festival has become an international event, and the lantern presents a cheerful and interesting scene of the dragon boat competition between the mouse team and the kid's team.
Artwork Theme:
Cute rats onto the lamp stand
Artist:
Bai-Jeng Chuang
This year is the golden mouse year. The artwork presents the cheerful New Year atmosphere through cartoon mouse design. It includes the fairy tale of mouse onto the lamp stand, the mice playing around, the one that jumps onto the fruit plate, the one that climbs into the high-heeled shoe, and those who want to drink from the goblet that the butterfly has occupied. There is also an automatic waving cat watching and waving. The scene delivers interesting and joyful festival feelings.
Artwork Theme:
The mouse loves the corn
Artist:
Yu-Chu Lin
Sponsor:
Taipei Hsiahai City God Temple
The artwork is inspired by the pop song “The mouse loves the corn”. It contains the scenes of hard- working mice happily moving corns and rice, and presents the lovely picture of plentiful harvest as well as the happiness of the mice's family. Mouse is ranked the first year followed by the other 11 designated animal years, and it is expected the 2008 will be glory mouse year. Using the pop song as the inspiration for the lantern design, the mouse loves the corn picture delivers amusing and animation scenes.
Artwork Theme:
Beating drums to greet the spring. Presenting the glory of mouse year with colorful lantern.
Artist:
Yu-Chu Lin
Sponsor:
Taipei Meng-Jia Long-Shan Temple, Inc.
People used to play drums in the ceremonies to create cheerful atmosphere and united vigor. The personification of mice playing drums on the lantern not only presents colorful and glorious effect, it also illustrates the spring thunders as well as delightful pictures. Nowadays, the percussion performances are very popular in the world. Combined with the drums and other various beautiful music instruments, the lantern is both gorgeous and full of the beauty of drum beatings.
Artwork Theme:
A pleasure visit to Taipei City
Artist:
Sheng-Li Chen
The Maokong Gondola is the latest tourism spot in Taipei . It has attracted lots of people to experience the ride. The lantern contains the Maokon Gondola, the King Penguin family in Taipei Zoo, and the cartoon personification mice who visit Taipei and experience the beauty of Taipei . This lantern is inviting everyone to enjoy a pleasure visit in Taipei.
Artwork Theme:
The Green pixie, "Rana taipehensis"(Rare breed frog)
Artist:
Wen-Chuan Huang
Rana taipehensis is originally ordinary frogs in Taiwan . Because of the change of the ecosystem, now the “Rana taipehensis” only appears in few places. Therefore the “Rana taipehensis” is categorized as the endangered species. The special features of “Rana taipehensis” are his thin body, long four legs, and good jumping ability. The lantern exhibition of “Rana taipehensis” is expected to raise the attention of environmental protection and the care for this green pixie.
Artwork Theme:
Taipei, my new hometown
Artist:
Jing-Yu Chuang
Sponsor:
Taipei Bao-An Temple
The lantern presents the cultural integration between local and international, and the family joy and fun. It delivers the wishes to create a diversified new immigration culture in Taiwan , and build up the beautiful new world with hope and happy citizens, making Taiwan my second hometown.
Artwork Theme:
Capital hot spring
Artist:
Tsai-Gan Hsiao
Hop spring is one of Taipei's attracting features, and also a precious natural resource. Taipei is one of a few capitals that possess hot springs in the world. The artist applies traditional lantern production technique to present a happy scene of a family enjoying the hot spring. He uses the modern technique of large image output along with track light to make the Bei Tou Hot Spring Museum, one of
Taipei's scenery spot as the background of the lantern. He also applies the water spray concept to create the effect of hot spring steam mist, vividly presenting the special scene of Taipei's hot spring.
Artwork Theme:
Taipei, the city of happiness
Artist:
Sheng-Li Chen
Sponsor:
Tien-Hou Temple
Taipei is a city of “friendliness, healthiness, warmth, and care”. To break the indifference of the city jungle, and create a living environment of love and care, the city has planned a program of “10 Happiness projects”. The lantern brings up 2 cartoon personification mice dancing together in the music played by the mice group. They are dancing for the happy city of Taipei and inviting everyone to come to Taipei embracing the happiness.
Artwork Theme:
Abundant fortune, good luck, and Happy New Year
Artist:
Han-Ching Chiang
Sponsor:
Song-Shan Feng-Tian Temple
The kids are playing on the ancient rice-screening machine. Just like kids, after a year of hard working, the grown-ups are also expecting the Chinese New Year. Hope in the Wu-Tze year, just like the well-functioned rice-screening machine, the economy will be thriving and every industry will enjoy prosperity. Hope the New Year of golden mouse will bring abundant fortune, good luck, and peace.
In the year of Wu-tzu and the mouse, the golden color means good luck. The lantern is named “Golden mice are getting married” because there is a Taiwan folk song for kids: “Jan. 1 st is the first day of the New Year, Jan. 2nd is the second day of the New Year, Jan. 3rd is the third day of the New Year. Go to bed early tonight because the mice are getting married”. The traditional folk tales convey the memorable festival atmosphere and recommend the citizens to appreciate the traditional lantern art in the lantern festival.
Artwork Theme:
Mice deliver the fortune
Artist:
Tsai-Gan Hsiao
The lantern conveys the slang of “there comes the mice and there comes the fortune”. Using the traditional lantern production technique, the lantern presents a group of mice delivering fortune in the forest and it also symbolizes great fortune is coming to you.
Artwork Theme:
Happy New Year with the mice
Artist:
Sheng-Li Chen
Sponsor:
Songshan Fong Tian Temple
The lantern uses personification of mice to present the happy atmosphere of the New Year. There is a fortune mouse that is holding a golden ingot, representing the coming of the fortune. There is a money mouse that is carrying a big coin on the back, meaning the greeting for the fortune. There is a mouse holding a big radish, symbolizing good luck. And there is also a mouse that is writing door couplet hangings, making a wish for the best to come true. In the sounds of firecrackers, the mice wish everyone great fortune and happy new year.
