My favourite temple festival is taking place this weekend..the Baosheng Cultural Festival at Taipei's Baoan temple.
Its a beautifully restored temple - which earned a UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Award in 2003. Its a riot of sounds, colours and smells. Different parades, dances, floats and lion dancing.
Its a chance for exhibitionists to stand out in the crowd.
And of course, great face-painting.
Its a wonderful occasion to see traditional Taiwan culture alive and thriving. 
What surprises me is still how locally-rooted the whole event is. Somehow, it hasn't become overly commercialised.
Puppets for sale
Fervent prayers in the crowd
Beautiful hand-made masks from the group among my favourites: the Twelve Grannies Formation from Hsuehchia, Tainan County.
2 generations
Tying a mask
Its hot! 
3 comments:
Nice set of pics. You wanna put em up on Flickr or something.
thanks! I enjoy taking pictures and sometimes do so for work too. But no time to deal with too many online sharing sites...a blog is enough for me
Wow, those are really cool photos. I've never heard about this event before.
Very interesting, thanks.
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