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The Penghu International Fireworks Festival is not the only incentive attracting sightseers to the "Gaillardia pluchella Foug Island" during the summer season but it has certainly become a spectacular scene that lights up the evening sky over the isles that people look forward to seeing every summer. The first Festival took place in 2003 and invited well-known Taiwan singers and performing groups to entertain. The amazing high-altitude fireworks display, romantic music, cascading rockets and a sea of lanterns all turn Penghu into a resplendent scene, more and more beautiful as night falls! The Penghu International Fireworks Festival has become one of the grand events of the summer season and a beautiful and magnificent night scene for visitors to the Gaillardia pluchella Foug Island.

Held along Taiwan's East Coast, Taiwan East Coast Land Arts Festival & Moonlight Sea Concert features large outdoor installation, art studios accessible to the public along Provincial Highway 11, art fairs, and music concerts. The coast's natural environment, indigenous lifestyle, and youth travel are the festival's main themes.

The Formosa Summer Festival integrates several special Taiwan summer recreational activities. The focus is on four themes: 1) shaved ice delicacies, 2) the Summer Solstice 235 (fall in love with me), 3) sand sculpture/art/music and 4) railway tourism. Cross-industry cooperation and marketing is an important part of this effort, including tourism, foods, fashion and the promotion of many well-known brands. The activities help spur further economic development, and together they have created a wonderful brand for summer festivals in Taiwan.

The Taiwan International Balloon Festival began in 2011. It has created many new opportunities for air-related leisure and recreational activities in Taiwan. It's one of Taiwan's most anticipated summer events. In 2018, the Travel Channel selected it as one of the world's top-12 hot air balloon festivals. In addition to taking a ride in a balloon, visitors can also enjoy activities such as light sculpture concerts. Visitors come from far and wide to enjoy the wonderful shapes and colors of the balloons, and watch as they compete for top honors. The assembled balloons are based on many different themes and characters, including Mickey Mouse, SpongeBob Square Pants and Angry Birds. Weather permitting, visitors can take a tethered ride into the sky. They can also can as the balloons are inflated. Of course group photos with the balloons are high on the agenda.

Taiwan is a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country, and every year the Ministry of Culture organizes a "Tibetan Culture and Art Festival." The festival is the result of many sectors, including public-private partnerships, academia, art & cultural entities, and the general public. Participants have exercised creative approaches to celebrating the festival, and have created an international platform for cultural exchange and understanding.

Kinmen's Mid-Autumn Festival "Dice Game for Mooncakes," or Bo-Bing, is a folk cultural event that has a history of at least 300 years. Related events also have connections to old traditions related to the imperial examinations. The dice game was a very popular tradition among Kinmen's residents. Today, it attracts visitors from around the world wishing to experience this unique aspect of traditional folk culture.

Since the Creative Expo Taiwan was first held in 2010, it has experienced exponential growth in the number of exhibitors, participating countries, and visitors. It has become one of Asia's largest cultural and creative expos. Every year, the expo challenges the public and the cultural/creative community to stretch their imaginations and explore Taiwan's culture. Activities include cross-disciplinary dialogues and topic-based conferences. Design and branding are also discussed, as participants work to promote and broaden Taiwan's cultural and creative soft power.

From just simple food and cooking, the Taiwan Culinary Exhibition has broadened to include kitchenware, culture, and dining atmosphere. Food culture integrates famous cuisine and special locally grown ingredients to create local cuisines with increasing diversity, taking Taiwan cuisine into the international arena. In addition to food that both looks and tastes great, there are also dynamic competitions of the cooking art, in which famous chefs from countries around the world are attracted to participate, making the Taiwan Culinary Exhibition a truly international event. To highlight the development of the Exhibition since its inception in 1989, every year different innovative theme plans are made, meant to create a moving atmosphere so that guests might participate and personally experience the magic of unique cuisine.

Shadow puppetry, glove puppetry, and marionette were introduced to Taiwan, blended with local customs and beliefs, and had developed into a unique art form of puppetry since, becoming three treasures of Taiwan. As time goes by, regardless of a vivid performance in the hands of the masters, an incidental music of live musicians' pragmatic responses, or an audience of different generation, or even the purpose of performance switched from offering thanks to the gods to entertaining people, the significance of puppetry arts has been gradually changing. Yunlin International Puppet Arts Festival was founded in 1999, and Yunlin becomes puppets' hometown in Taiwan, creating a variety of performing schools. To establish the International Puppet Arts Festival is to realize Yunlin as a cultural county, to carry forward the traditions of fine art, and to promote international cultural exchanges. The festival activities include inviting international puppet teams to perform, and sponsoring the Golden Palm Award to encourage skill contests and competitive performances of classic and innovative plays. In addition, it combines with exhibitions of arts, cultural and creative works, and installation art of agricultural product puppets, and promoting, encouraging, teaching and experiencing glove puppetry to enable sustainable development and to pass on the heritage of glove puppetry culture.

Nantou is Taiwan's only inland county but is home to the famous, unrivalled Sun Moon Lake, the largest freshwater lake. Attracting visitors from abroad, it's an essential tourist destination, and in addition to scenic beauty, the unique landscape has made it an excellent place for biking, marathons, and an annual swimming competition, which is the area's biggest and longest-running event, starting in 1983. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, swimmers from around Taiwan or abroad gather at Zhaowu Wharf to participate in this grand event. The course is 3000 meters long and in 2002 was officially included among the world's famous swimming competitions. Bringing thousands of swimming enthusiasts from Taiwan and abroad, it has become a grand event.