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New Taipei City is rich in mountain resources and diverse settlement cultures. The Tourism Bureau guides the public to understand New Taipei's mountains and forests through the planning of mountain and forest experience activities.
The ancestors stacked stones layer by layer to create centuries-old terraces in Songshan Mountain. (Photo provided by New Taipei City Tourism Bureau)
The New Taipei City Tourism Bureau will hold a "New Taipei Mountain Forest Exhibition" themed event at Qingshan Waterfall and Songshan Centennial Terraces in Shimen District on October 24. People are invited to hike the Qingshan Waterfall Trail to appreciate the beauty of New Taipei Mountain Forest and the magnificence of Qingshan Waterfall. They will then go to the local Songshan Centennial Rice Terraces to enjoy music and dance performances. Professional photography instructors will also be invited to the site to explain how to capture the changes in light and shadow with mobile phones, teaching participants to take pictures of the beautiful scenery.
The New Taipei City Tourism Bureau pointed out that the first event of the New Taipei Mountain Forest Exhibition will be held at Qingshan Waterfall and Songshan Centennial Rice Terraces in Shimen District. In the early morning of the event, the event will take a stroll along the "Kandiliao Zhen" that was built for irrigation of the terraces to Qingshan Waterfall, explore the beauty of the waterfall, and visit the irrigation source of the century-old rice terraces in New Taipei Mountain. Lin's natural sounds are used as the background, and performers Xu Zhihan, Xu Zhichun and Li Yurong are invited to compose natural movements with cello, violin and electronic keyboard; and with century-old terraced fields as the stage, dancers Li Hanxuan and Zheng Yipeng dance with centuries-old grace in the natural beauty, showing an immersive experience of resonance between nature and people.
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The event also invited photography lecturer Chen Hanrong to give on-site explanations using mobile phones as shooting tools, guiding participants to capture the moments of natural light and shadow changes, and turn their personal appreciation of the beautiful scenery into exclusive narrative photos.
Tourism Director Yang Zongmin said that New Taipei has rich mountain resources and diverse settlement cultures. Through different mountain and forest experience activity plans, the public is guided to understand the mountains and forests of New Taipei in a variety of ways. This event focuses on Qingshan Waterfall and Centennial Rice Terraces, supplemented by music, dance performances and mobile photography, leading participants to deeply experience the beauty of New Taipei mountains and forests. The public is invited to enter the mountains and forests, slow down, open up the five senses, and feel the healing power of the mountains and forests in music and dance. Online registration is open for this event.
The event invites the public to hike in the mountains and forests and absorb phytoncides. (Photo provided by New Taipei City Tourism Bureau)
The New Taipei Mountain Forest Exhibition will be held on October 24 at Shimen Qingshan Waterfall and Songshan Centennial Rice Terraces. (Photo provided by New Taipei City Tourism Bureau)
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