A popular Dance—Techno dance of Nezha Deity

Its Origin – Frankly speaking, most Taiwanese believe in Buddha and other deities at the same time.  So there are a great number of temples in Taiwan.  Since Taiwanese love watching shows, there are no temple fairs without a variety of performances.  One of the fun performances is techno dance of Nezha Deity. 

Nezha is also called San-Tai-Tze (the third prince), praised as a famous Taiwanese folk deity.  However, some performers of the temple-fair shows were teenagers, not well concerned by family. Therefore, they smoked, enjoyed drugs, fooled around in the nightclubs or did illegal things.  Something incredible happened that these San-Tai-Tze performers decided to transform their messy life into a new one in combination with music they heard in the nightclubs. 

Honour of Taiwan- The 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung Taiwan, complimented as the best World Games ever, made San-Tai-Tze known to the world.  32 San-Tai-Tze performers rode motorcycles into the opening ceremony and had a splendid show right there.  Since then, World Exposition, Flora Exposition and numerous companies invite them to perform.  In addition, the lights on San-Tai-Tze’s costumes are LED lights (famous products of Taiwanese technology). What’ s more, members of Jyou-Tian Folk Drum and Arts Group (九天民俗技藝團) even wore the seventeen-kilogram costume of San-Tai-Tze to pass Sahara Desert this year (2011).  This rewrote the world new record.

                         Look at National Flag of Taiwan at the back of Nezha!

INFORMATIONS ARE FROM :1. San-Tai-Tze dancing (video)—

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cM75S1zGVI&feature=related

2. San-Tai-Tze dancing in 2000 World Games (video)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se52Q5A_U64

3. San-Tai-Tze passed Sahara (news)—

    http://iservice.libertytimes.com.tw/liveNews/news.php?no=552411&type

The Opinions For Traditional Taiwanese Food

When it comes to table manners or early taboos about food, I believe most elders are interested in this topic and willing to talk more about them.  My grandma is an exception, but she mentioned something about cultures which made me feel lucky to live in the modern society.

  My favorite breakfast is "turnip radish cake" (蘿蔔糕), but usually I have bread.  The choices for breakfast vary for modern people.  For the elders, since the economy was not stable in the past, the best and the last choice for them was porridge, which made them energetic again.
  As a girl, picking a great seat is important.  The number of changing seats while eating means how many times one might get married in life. ( "Gosh!" I thought.  I hope I won' t have millions of marriages.  That would be too scary! )

  To sum up, things change and I am glad to live an easy life in the twenty-first century.