Matsu Teppanyaki Pagoda Festival was held. The county magistrate and other officials participated in lighting the pagoda to pray and combined with anti-election bribery propaganda

Matsu's autumn festival "Teppanyaki Tower Festival" was held yesterday (4th) at the Teppanyaki Village in Nangan Township, Lianjiang County. The Teppanyaki Tower Burning Festival has inherited the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Eastern Fujian for hundreds of years and is one of the few tower burning events that is still held continuously. Lianjiang County Magistrate Wang Zhongming, Speaker Zhang Yongjiang, and Horse Defense Department Commander Yin Changrong all attended the grand event on the evening of the 4th, and performed pagoda lighting and prayer ceremonies to pray for the local government to eliminate filth and bring blessings, eliminate disasters, and wish the villagers a smooth future, local prosperity, and good weather.

Wang Zhongming said that as a Tiepan resident, he is particularly sensitive to this festival. The pagoda burning festival is one of the few traditional customs that has been completely preserved in Matsu's outlying islands and villages. The early burning of pagodas had a deep connotation of removing filth, symbolizing burning away the bad things and debris from the past, thereby ushering in good luck and a new outlook. The county government team hopes to unite the villagers through a series of activities from morning to night, including street walks, food feasts and evening tower burning ceremonies.

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The Teppanyaki Tower Ceremony originates from Fuzhou's century-old Mid-Autumn Festival customs. Currently, only Matsu Teban Ren'ai Village has fully preserved it. Led by the county magistrate, he and local villagers participated in lighting the tower made of bricks and burning "cleaning cards" with disaster written on them, which symbolized cleansing away dirt, praying for blessings, giving thanks, and replacing the old with the new. Wang Zhongming, Zhang Yongjiang and Yin Changrong jointly wrote the filth removal card to express their wish to stay away from disasters and welcome peace. Wang Zhongming wrote "sickness and war" on the filth removal card, hoping that the villagers would stay away from disease and war and pray for peace. Zhang Yongjiang wrote "unhappy", hoping that the folks would say goodbye to negative moods and maintain a good mood. Yin Changrong wrote "annoyance", which symbolizes getting rid of worries and bad things, and praying for peace and stability for the people of the county.

The Lianjiang District Prosecutor's Office took advantage of the "Teppanyaki Tower Burning Festival" where villagers gathered. Lai Yingying, the chief prosecutor of the Lianjiang District Prosecutor's Office, along with spectators and police officers, set up stalls at the Tower Burning Festival event to conduct anti-election bribery propaganda, bringing the concept of anti-election bribery to the grassroots level of the community. In the past 115 years, as of October 4, there have been a total of 101 times, using public-private collaboration to carry out anti-election bribery propaganda.

In addition, for the 2011 local public officials election, the Lianjiang District Prosecutor's Office has issued a bonus of NT$1.05 million for reporting bribery. People who report bribery will not only protect the fairness and justice of their homeland, but also have a chance to receive the highest reporting bonus of NT$20 million. If the public discovers election bribery, please call the reporting hotline 0800-024-099 extension 4 or 0836-22823 extension 9.