2018 Yunlin Hakka Tung Blossom Festival - "Art Tung Tour of Zhao'an"

The Yunlin County Government and the Lunbei Township Reading Association jointly held the opening event of the 2018 Yunlin Hakka Tung Blossom Season - "Art Tung Tour of Zhao'an" yesterday (the 29th) at Lunbei Township First Park. County Magistrate Li Jinyong, County Councilor Liao Jinzhu, Secretary-General Huang Yushuang, Cultural Affairs Director Lin Mengyi, Lunbei Township Reading Association Chairman Li Ricun and local representatives all came to enjoy the event with the public. County Magistrate Li Jinyong also specially played 3 classic pieces on the saxophone, "Mother, Please Take Care of Yourself," "You Are My Life," and "Gazing at the Spring Breeze," offering Mother's Day blessings to the people present.

County Magistrate Li Jinyong stated that this was the grand finale event of the 2018 Yunlin Hakka Tung Blossom Season. Hakka culture embodies the hardworking, striving spirit of "hard-necked" perseverance, able to show tenacious vitality and display energy within simplicity. He hoped to work together with the Hakka community to continue promoting Hakka culture and spirit.

The event opened with students from the community college's Zhao'an Hakka language class presenting Hakka tung blossom poems and folk song recitations. Next, the amateur saxophone ensemble "Zhao'an Ensemble" performed a Hakka medley, showcasing a rich Hakka atmosphere. The venue also held a Tung Blossom Children's Painting - parent-child sketching activity, and a Tung Blossom cultural industry market, giving the public both food and fun, bringing the Tung Blossom Season event to a perfect close.