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The term "Miaoli Country" comes from Miaoli County's long-term special political ecology, local factional structure, and past financial crises, giving the outside world the impression that Miaoli County seems to be a country of its own. This term was first circulated on the Internet. After an in-depth discussion in a special episode of the talk show "Born Night Show" in 2019, it quickly attracted the attention of all Taiwan.
The talk show "Born Night Show" quickly brought the term "Miaoli Country", which was originally circulated on the Internet, to the attention of the entire Taiwan. (Reproduced from "Born Night Show")
The term "Miaoli Country" comes from Miaoli's long-term special political ecology, local faction structure, and financial crises that broke out in the past, which gave the outside world the impression that Miaoli County is a country of its own. After the former talk show "Born Night Show" produced a special episode to discuss this phenomenon in depth in 2019, the term "Miaoli Country", which was originally circulated on the Internet, quickly attracted the attention of all Taiwan.
Faced with the term "Miaoli Country", former county magistrate Xu Yaochang once mocked himself as a "king". Over the years, in the Miaoli County Magistrate election, there have been many candidates who have shouted the slogan "Tear off the label of Miaoli Country". However, the current county magistrate Zhong Dongjin has an open mind about this term. During his swearing-in speech as the current county magistrate, he emphasized that Miaoli is a label and a benchmark. It will become a new brand, and he has the ability to do it.
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Next year's Taiwan Lantern Festival will be hosted by Miaoli County. Netizens said that the 2027 Miaoli Lantern Festival will be the first time to "go abroad" to watch the lantern festival. Zhong Dongjin also announced on Facebook, "In view of this, we announced that friends traveling to Miaoli, whether they are from Taiwan or the Republic of China, will be visa-free for life!"
In addition to "Miaoli Country", Taiwan's neutral committee member Yan Kuanheng has also accepted online ridicule from netizens on his father and son in the past. In 2016, he launched a "wave absorbing block" pillow with a watermelon pattern to promote Taichung's agricultural products. In 2019, he sat on a wave absorbing block by the seaside and sang "Listen to the Sea" with the then KMT Chairman Zhu Lilun, highlighting the environmental protection issues of Taichung thermal power plants, which caused a lot of discussion. In addition, when the current Legislative Yuan Han Guo-yu was running for mayor of Kaohsiung, he used catchy language such as "The bald man follows the moon", combined with his distinctive personal image, to create a high degree of recognition.
In the past, Taiwanese neutrality committee member Yan Kuan-heng accepted netizens’ online ridicule of his father and son, and once launched a “wave-reducing block” pillow with a watermelon pattern to promote Taichung’s agricultural products. (File photo)
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The 2027 Miaoli Lantern Festival will attract more domestic and foreign tourists than in previous years
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