STUST undertook the Ministry of Education's "Local Creation and Dissemination of Cultural Heritage—Fucheng VS Yuejin" USR project team, which holds the Shennong Street Lantern Festival every year. As this year (2024) coincides with the Tainan 400 celebration, STUST recently jointly organized a lantern show with the neighboring West Luodian and Hai'an Palace to recreate the festive atmosphere of the harbor channel culture during the Ching Dynasty's suburban business period, making the community look lively and extraordinary.

【Chairman Min-shing Wang was delivering a speech at the lantern-lighting ceremony of the Shiluo Hall.】

Shennong Street, where the STUST's cultural heritage team is located, was the center of suburban commerce and trade in Wutiao Port in the Ching Dynasty. It was located north of Beishigang in the center of Wutiao Port. The old street in the Ching Dynasty was called Beishi Street, and the Shiluo Temple was located there. Nanshi Street in the Ching Dynasty was located south of Beishigang, and Hai'an Palace was located at the mouth of Beishigang. Through the relationship between suburban merchants and Beishigang in the Ching Dynasty, it was established by the cultural heritage USR planning team of STUST, which coordinated the planning and designing of the lantern festivals at the three exhibition venues. In the Shennong Street Lantern Festival Lantern Exhibition, just like previous years, the colorful lanterns for each household on the main street were created by students from the lantern painting independent course at STUST. They discussed the theme, shape and hanging method with the residents, and painted beautiful lanterns that told the stories of the residents. In addition, the students in charge of the independent course of lantern painting at STUST used the theme of recreating the scene of transporting Chinese medicinal materials and tried food on the port road in those days, and combined it with the auspiciousness and celebration of the Year of the Dragon to create the style of the Beishigang Ruins Lantern District In the middle section of the Beishigang ruins. Children from the “Paper Plane Can Fly Talent Classroom” were responsible for completing the online beauty lantern wall with the image of the Year of the Dragon. The rear section connected to Kangle Street was composed of ruins of the houses that were demolished when Kangle Street was widened and expanded. The team invited teachers and students from Chengkong Junior High School to paint hundreds of lanterns and use typography to create the long shining lantern wall of Tainan 400. In order to continue the Tainan 400 issue, the team from STUST invited Liren Elementary School Art Artists to paint a hundred lanterns on the side wall of the Shiluo Hall. The third-grade and fifth-grade students worked together to create the second Tainan 400 lantern wall along Kangle Street, showing various looks with different styles.

【The lanterns were turned on at the Haian Lantern Festival.】

Hai'an Palace is located opposite to Shiejin Elementary School on Jinhua Road. Because it is located at the mouth of the harbor road, it is surrounded by residential buildings in alleys. The STUST project team used the topography and the meaning of historical relics to build the temple next to Jinhua Road. At the entrance of the alley, red lanterns line the "Hi! Ha’an" lantern area to welcome those who came to Hai'an Temple to enjoy the lanterns. The paintings outside the red lanterns were painted by students from grades one to six of Shiejin Elementary School. In addition to participating in the grand event, the cultural heritage USR team of STUST, together with the Center for Social Practice and Environmental Sustainability of STUST, invited other USR project on painted lanterns to jointly complete this lantern area. For the "Flying Dragon in the Sky" lantern area in front of the Hai'an Temple, which is located in the port area, the planning team of STUST designed a red flying dragon looking towards the direction of the Taijiang River. The painted lanterns in the "Flying Dragon in the Sky" lantern area were designed by STUST for the Year of the Dragon. Students from the independent course of painted lanterns, Shishu Tilapia Senior Art Classroom and the Affiliated Kindergarten of Shiejin Elementary School jointly completed the project.

【The lantern wall in SHiluo Palace for Tainan 400】

Prof. Bai-fang Shiao of STUST said that STUST Cultural Heritage USR planning team was the organizer of the Year of the Dragon Lantern Festival, connecting Hai'an Palace and Shiluo Palace to make the overall planning and design, assuming the social responsibility of the university, and holding the successful nation with its big hands. The Little Hands of Central, Shiejin Elementary School, Liren Elementary School, and Paper Plane Can Fly Talent Classroom worked together to recreate the splendor of the Hong Kong Lighting Festival in the suburbs of Beishigang. People were welcome to come and enjoy the lanterns during the Chinese New Year, traveling through time and space to see the suburban lantern festival that illuminated Tainan for the history of 400 years with the Beishigang as its focus.

【Tainan 400 at Shennong Street Lantern Exhibition: Lighting up the Chenkong Lantern Wall】

【Hi!Ha’an Lantern Area at the Hai'an Lantern Festival】

【“Dragon Flying in the Sky” Lantern Area in Hai'an Lantern Festival】

【The map of the United Lantern Festival for the reproduction of the suburban business of Beishigang (Nansigang)】