TAIWAN-FESTIVAL
People watch as a tremendous wooden King Boat is burnt into ashes to call upon gods to help, during the triennial Donggang King Boat Featival (also known as the Wangye Worshiping Ceremony), a traditional ritual that has been inherited since the Qing dynasty and is used for saving people from plagues and pandemics, in Donggang Township, Pingtung, Taiwan, 31 October 2021. The week-long ceremony is held to ask for help from gods to save the people from pandemics and plagues, with devotees and temples going through a series of protocols including paying worships to different local gods, and burning a tremendous wooden boat. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto) (Credit:Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto/Kyodo News Images)
- Product Code
- ILEA000837080
- Registered date
- 2021/10/31 00:00:00
- Credit
- NurPhoto / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- NurPhoto
- Media size
- 5472 × 3648 pixel
- Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Deployment size
- 5.39(MB)*
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Germany, France OUT
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