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)—
2. San-Tai-Tze dancing in 2000 World Games (video)
3. San-Tai-Tze passed Sahara (news)—
I think the techno dance of Nezha Deity is unique!!! I think the dance is very cute and easy for people to remember and learn! I am happy that the dance is so popular in the world and everyone knows it!!
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