The USR project team of STUST that promotes the recreation and dissemination of the cultural heritage of Fucheng and Yuejin has been working together with Tainan City Cultural Association on jointly organizing the Shennong Street Lantern Festival, which is about to enter its fourth year. Supported by the residents of Shennong Street, the team has acquired the support of the Management Committee of Siluodian Exhibition Hall, in addition to 60 households participating in the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Ox. The festival activities will be expanded into a theme lantern festival centered on the temple. The Lantern Festival will be jointly organized by Shennong Street and Siluodian in the Year of the Ox. The opening ceremony of the Lantern Show is expected to launch on January 23 next year, with rich and wonderful contents to be showed. Everyone is welcome to join in the grand event.

[CEO Hsai-Chin Zheng of Tainan City Cultural Association was leading the students working on painted lanterns to learn about the Beishi Port Relics.]

The Lantern Festival on Shennong Street over the past three years has taken on a model where students and residents organized an exhibition together. This strategy, having been discussed by the neighborhood and the university team, has developed a feature that is different from the major lantern shows in the country. In order to welcome the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Ox, the STUST Center of General Education especially opened four self-directed learning courses: "Shennong Street Lantern Lantern Painting in the Year of the Ox," "AR Lantern Riddles Making for the Lantern Lantern Fair at Shennong Street in the Year of the Ox," "Documentary on the Lantern Lantern Festival at Shennong Street in the Year of the Ox," and " Lantern Festival Production for the Shennong Street Lantern Festival in the Year of the Ox." There are a total of 140 students participating in the preparation work for the Lantern Festival in the Year of the Ox.

[The residents of the neighborhood were having a discussion with the students of STUST working on the colorful lanterns in the heavy, with their enthusiasm not unabated.]

The self-learning course on making the painted lanterns of the Shennong Street Lantern Fair was the first to appear. After three briefing sessions on campus, 125 students were recruited and divided into two groups for Shennong Street and Siluodian. The students had already known about Shennong Street, Beishigang, and Siluodian before they met with the residents there to discuss the colorful painting of the lanterns in front of every house in the Year of the Ox lantern. This year saw a great difference from the past: the growth of residents at Shennong Street. Many residents had already thought about how to display the lanterns in front of their homes in the Year of the Ox, and they even had new ideas about the shapes and colors of the lanterns. They wanted to be different from the previous two years and give their homes a new look in the year of the Ox. Some stores newly stationed at Shennong Street also participated in the New Year Lantern Festival as they had heard the reputable experiences of their neighbors. Now the focus of each store is on how to integrate the lanterns, facades, and old houses into an entity for the students to highlight the characteristics of their stores during the New Year via their lantern paintings.

[STUST USR project team was holding a regularly meeting with the Siluodian Management Committee and Tainan City Cultural Association to discuss details about the lantern show for the New Year of the Ox.]

The design of Siluodian exhibition area is based on the theme of “the Ox turning around the Universe.” The USR project team of STUST set up a photo wall on the north side to tell the story of King Guangze’s filial piety with a series of stories. Eight students in the self-learning course of painted lanterns are responsible for the design. As for the Beishi Port Relics on the south side of Shennong Street, which has been long ignored, and the Beef Lane that runs through Shennong Street and Beishi Port, the students’ design of lantern painting will be based on the theme of ox carts, port roads, and traditional Chinese medicine—which used to be the main cargo of Beishi Port—in response to the Year of the Ox and in an attempt to recall the one scenario where the sampan boats on Beishi Port Road required dock workers or the cattle to pull the boats and the other scenario where there used to be ox carts carrying goods on Shennong Street.

[Students from the Department of Multimedia and Computer Science, who were in charge of painting the walls of the Siluodian, went to the temple to study the side.]

As President Deng-Maw Lu of STUST pointed out, the USR project team of STUST has held a three-year lantern show in Shennong Street. In addition to increasing the number of households and students participating in self-learning courses, this year it has also encouraged Siluodian to make official offering for the lantern show for the Year of the Ox. The exhibition has also driven local schools various talent classes to play a part, including Shiejin Elementary School, Hongwacuo Elementary School, and many others. The self-learning courses related to the lantern show has stopped being just simple painted lanterns, with an addition of such courses such as lantern production, festival documentaries, and AR lantern riddles making. International students has also joined the lantern show and introduced the theme of painting with their own country’s image for the year of the ox, which proves that the residents and the university has been working together to organize the lantern show, creating a model to practicing university social responsibility. Everyone is welcome to join the parade on January 23 next year and participate in the opening ceremony of the Lantern Festival on Shennong Street in the Year of the Ox.

[International students of STUST were doing the painting job for the Shennong Street Lantern Show in the Year of the Ox on campus.]

[STUST Students in charge of lantern painting were having a discussion with the shop manager of Tsuchun Barbecue Restaurant at No. 95, Shennong Street.]

[STUST Students in charge of lantern painting were having a discussion with the shop manager of Muromachi Eel Restaurant at No. 105, Shennong Street.]

[STUST Students in charge of lantern painting were having a discussion with the manager of Jiuchuan Tea Shop at No.101, Shennong Street.]

[STUST Students in charge of lantern painting were having a discussion with Ms. Chen, who, the resident living at No. 133, Shennong Street, was looking for the paintings of flowers and birds for their discussion over the contents of the lantern paintings.]