2022 The Cijin Kite Festival will be held on the 20th and 21st. The Kaohsiung City Government Tourism Bureau conducted a kite test flight on the 17th, and a 16-meter-long whale kite flew in the sky. (Photo / Taiwan "Central News Agency")
2022 The Cijin Kite Festival will be held on August 20th and 21st. The Kaohsiung City Tourism Bureau conducted a test flight of kites yesterday. A 16-meter-long whale and a 35-meter-long giant octopus kite were displayed. Flying in the sky, it looked like an aerial ocean world, which made the people at the scene exclaim again and again.
Kaohsiung City Tourism Bureau issued a press release today stating that the 2022 Cijin Kite Festival is the first large-scale kite display event held in Kaohsiung. There will be groups of whales and octopus kites appearing over Cijin Beach, among which the largest The whale kite is 16 meters long, and the largest octopus kite is 35 meters long.
The Tourism Bureau invited professional players to conduct kite test flights yesterday afternoon. Kites such as giant octopuses and large whales were soaring in the sky, and full of marine life were flying in the air, which made the people at the scene exclaim.
Kaohsiung City Tourism Director Zhou Lingkui said that the 2022 Cijin Kite Festival is themed on the Big Fish World, and there will be more than hundreds of animal-shaped kites competing in the sky of Cijin, including 30 whale kites and giant octopus kites leading crabs, Jellyfish, cuttlefish and other undersea animals appeared, turning the sky of Cijin into a marine world.
The Tourism Bureau stated that in addition to marine life, kites in the shape of cute animals such as elephants, tigers, and monkeys will also appear; on the evening of the 20th, there will be a luminous kite show, and on the 21st, Kaohsiung Family Poseidon, the first-year champion of the Taiwan Professional Basketball T1 League, will be invited. The players of the team celebrated together, and there were many programs such as painted kite DIY, band singing, bubble show, sand volleyball party and so on.
Zheng Kaiyuan, chairman of the Asian International Kite Federation, said that luminous kites are a new highlight of kite activities in recent years. LED lights and IC programs are installed on traditional kite lines, so that the color and pattern of the kites can constantly change in the night sky, becoming the night sky. A beautiful scenery.
The Tourism Bureau stated that if you want to watch the kite display, the best viewing spots are around Cijin Bathing Beach, Cijin Windmill Park, and Qihou Fort. For those who are unable to attend, you can go to the Kaohsiung Tourism website and click on the 4K real-time video of Cijin Bathing Beach to watch it live online. (Source: Taiwan's "Central News Agency")
