Taiwan Festivals

In early Ching Dynasty, Yenshui was originally a harbor, named Yueh Kang. The Wu Temple established long time ago organizes the fireworks activity every year. The parade of the spirit palanquin and bearers starts from the Wu Temple throughout the streets of the town. All people can see and smell are fireworks. The most impressive of all the fireworks is the "cannon wall" which is lit to thank the gods for their blessing. When the spirit palanquin approaches the cannon wall, the wall custodian pulls open the red cloth and triggers the contents, releasing an explosion of light, color and ear-splitting sound. Fireworks shoot like tracer bullets over the heads of those nearby before bombarding both the palanquins and the audience. With the flash and sound of explosions all around, the attendants start rocking the palanquins and people try to dodge the attack of the fierce bombarding of projectiles from all the directions, making this pandemonium a big excitement and attracting huge amount of people to visit the town for enjoying the most thunderous folk ceremony in the world every year.