Today (2/14) is Western Valentine’s Day. The Tainan City Government Tourism Bureau has specially organized the “Big Fish’s Blessing and Lover’s Date-2024 Valentine’s Day Event”, inviting couples from all over the country to come to the 2024 Taiwan Lantern Festival Anping Lantern District to take photos and check in. You can get an exclusive prayer card for the event and hang it in the "Big Fish's Blessing" prayer lantern forest, an important landmark in Anping. Through the blessing and testimony of Big Fish, I wish all lovers in the world to finally get married. Mayor Huang Weizhe, who is the best spokesperson for the "All Sugar City", also came to the event to hang prayer cards with the public. Emperio and Isabel, a Filipino couple studying in Tainan, were also invited to the event to share their thoughts with everyone. It is the joy of working together in Tainan. I hope that lovers who come to Tainan will feel full of happiness and surprises on this day. The mayor personally presents Tainan’s special souvenirs Jinfu peanut candy, Yuelao gummy candies and Yuelao perfume. , I wish lovers will eventually get married and good things will happen. At the scene were Representative Shen Chen-tung, Representatives from the Legislative Service Office of Lin Junxian, Representatives from Speaker Qiu Lili’s Service Office, Representatives from Representative Zhou Li-jin’s Service Office, Chairman Cai Chenghong of the Tainan City Tourism Business Association, Chairman Liang Jinsheng of the Tainan City Tourism Promotion Factory Development Association, and Tainan City B&Bs. Chairman Zhou Rongtang of the Cultural Development Association, Chairman Cai Renhui of the Tainan City Fucheng Cultural and Tourism Industry Association, Chairman Wu Juntai of the Tainan City Hotel Business Association, Chairman Zhang Qingzhong of the Tainan City Cultural Tourism Souvenir Industry Development Association, China Marine Tourism Promotion and Agricultural Characteristics Promotion Association Chairman Hou Cuiling, Chairman of Tainan Travel Industry Managers Association Ke Zhaoya, Director of Tainan Municipal Hotel Business Association Hong Zhicang, President of Southern District of Regent International Hotel Group and General Manager of Tainan Jingying Hotel Li Jingwen, Directors of Tainan Grand Hotel Lin Xiaorong and Xirong Xuan Hotel Manager Guo Bin, Taiwan Sugar Evergreen Hotel Public Relations Gao Zhilei and other industry representatives came to the scene to warm up Tainan 400.

Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe said that Tainan is a city with a diverse and inclusive history and culture of both East and West. Adding Valentine's Day elements to the Anping Lantern District symbolizes the blessing of love and represents the cultural integration of Tainan's century-old history. In order to welcome the romantic holiday of Valentine's Day, the city government has specially arranged a forest of prayer lanterns next to the "Blessing of the Big Fish" and invites people from all over the country to take photos and check-in at the 2024 Taiwan Lantern Festival lantern area (two-person photos, no restrictions on pictures and texts), that is, You can go to the i2 service desk to get a prayer card. After getting the prayer card, people are welcome to fill in the content and hang it in the prayer lantern forest, so that Big Fish’s blessings can witness each other’s steadfast love.

Director Lin Guohua of the Tainan City Government Tourism Bureau said that the "2024 Taiwan Lantern Festival" has returned to Tainan for the first time in 16 years, becoming Tainan's first international event in 400 years. The Anping Lantern District has taken the lead in turning on the lights on February 3 to welcome Valentine's Day. In the coming days, the Tourism and Tourism Bureau has specially planned the 2024 Valentine’s Day event, hoping that through Big Fish’s testimony and blessings, lovers who come to Tainan can feel the happiness of the sugar city. During the Anping Lantern Festival, an aerial display was specially planned that combined drones, fireworks, lasers and light shows. It used exquisite and unique technological sound and light effects based on the concept of theater to depict the story of Tainan 400 in the air, and planned " The trilogy "Looking Back at the Officials (History), Fucheng Poems and Paintings (Culture), and Dreaming Back to Tainan (Diversified Life)" will be performed in turn during the holidays during the lantern festival. The performance dates are February 17-18, February 24-25, and March 3 On March 2-3 and March 9-10, the performance time is 7:45 pm. The main exhibition area of the high-speed rail will also be lively from 2/24 to March 10. The story of Taiwan and Tainan will be expressed through seven different artistic creation methods to express the beautiful face of Taiwan's rich history.

From now until March 10th (Sunday), you are welcome to take photos and check in at Anping Lantern District to share photos of sweet couples and lanterns. You can go to the i2 service desk of Anping Lantern District to pick up prayer cards (limited to 1,000 per day) and write down 2024. New wishes, let the big fish bless you, welcome tourists from all over the country to Tainan to experience the joyful, sweet and lively atmosphere of the Lantern Festival!