Taiwan Theater Museum: I got to Host a Puppet Show and Perform Taiwanese Opera!
Let’s go cultural as I visit the Taiwan Theater Musuem in Yilan City. This museum is dedicated to Taiwan’s theatrical arts and operas.
Travel blogger Kenneth Surat and I got to host a puppet show and perform in a Taiwanese opera. What a memorable experience!
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TAIWAN THEATER MUSEUM/FREE ADMISSION
The Taiwan Theater Museum is a museum about theatre in Yilan City, Yilan County, Taiwan. The museum is dedicated to Taiwan's theatrical arts and operas. It is the first public theater museum in Taiwan and the first museum established in Yilan County.
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Things To Do In Yilan County Taiwan
I’ve been planning (or let’s say tempted) to visit Taiwan several times last year, ever since they have lifted visas for Filipinos entering the country. I came close to booking a flight during one of the local airline’s seats sale but unfortunately, things didn’t really work out as planned (dreamed). Good thing, before 2018 came to a close, I got a chance to visit Taiwan, though not the capital, I still got to explore the country’s northeastern town, Yilan County.
Yilan is situated in Taiwan’s Northeastern coastline. Our local guide mentioned that Yilan is regarded as Taiwan’s backyard or backyard garden because it is surrounded by ocean and mountains, making it a nature-destination trip especially if you are coming from a busy city like Taipei.
Join me in this vlog as I tag you along in some of the best spots to see when visiting Yilan.
Here are the places we visited:
3:17 Agrioz Candied Fruit Factory & Museum
5:20 Hill-Top Yilan
7:06 Dongmen Night Market
8:08 The Jimmy Square
8:39 Taiwan Theater Museum
11:40 Er-Wang Community
12:42 Yilan County Government Office
13:14 Yilan County Historical Museum
13:44 Yilan Distillery
16:00 Yilan Literary Museum
16:57 Memorial Hall of Founding of Yilan Administration
17:39 Quingshui Geothermal Park
20:53 Wai'ao Beach
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YILAN -- Traditional Arts, that DYE HAD A NASTY SMELL... (宜蘭國立傳統藝術中心)
On our recent trip to Yilan Count in northeastern Taiwan we spent a day at the National Center for Traditional Arts, a great place to learn about, well, traditional arts. Lot of hands-on experiences on offer. The lantern by the lake looked great!
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By Rick Charette
National Center for Traditional Arts
It was only in 1796 that Han Chinese settlers began streaming into the Yilan Plain, coming over the mountains in force from the Taipei Basin. Yet the unique characteristics of this region gave rise to a unique Yilan culture. Travel back deep into Yilan time with a stroll through the National Center for Traditional Arts (NCTA; NT$150 entry; ncfta.gov.tw), beside Provincial Highway 2, not far north of the town of Su’ao, spending a day exploring Yilan traditional-style architecture, history, crafts, and performing arts.
This attraction, spread over 24 hectares, is focused on the culture of the common folk rather than the fine arts. It wears many hats: living museum, outdoor theater, demo and DIY workshop, food market.
The center of activity is the Old Street, a long, curving reproduction of an old-time Yilan commercial high street, lined with elegant-façade shop buildings constructed in the distinctive Yilan red-brick and white-stucco style. Scores of old-time businesses have set up branches on this and the adjoining alleys, the majority from Yilan.
Watch master artisans create glass-art pieces, sculpt dough figurines, and spin “dragon beard” candy. Dress up in old-time costumes and have your photo taken with a backdrop transporting you into times gone by.
At the richly aromatic Han Tê shop, use old-time measuring instruments and packaging methods to create your own 7-item fragrance pouch (rose, mint, cogongrass, etc.), which can also be used for a soothing foot soak. At Zhuo Ye Indigo Dyeing House, don your artist hat to dye your own shop-crafted handkerchief, towel, pouch, or more expensive item. Zhuo Ye selects only traditional natural dyes, using indigo for blues, onion skin for oranges, etc., growing everything in its own fields. And your own precious-memory DIY silver ring awaits your arrival at the metalwork-jewelry studio Xiangcheng Jingong.
It hardly needs saying that this will surely be your best place for gift and souvenir buying on this trip.
The center is also a learning institute for young people pursuing careers in traditional Chinese theater and music, and there is a regular schedule of live performances provided for visitors, with students-in-training the stars. Check with the visitor center upon arrival. Perhaps the most satisfying and colorful shows are put on at the exquisitely aesthetic stage before the elaborately appointed Wenchang Temple; students pray to deity Wenchang Dijun for success in examinations. Enjoy ritual sword play, martial arts, dragon and lion dancing, glove puppetry, and many other old-style entertainment forms.
Among the other stimulations that make an NCFTA visit a full-day experience are boat rides on the waterway that winds through the grounds and on the Dongshan River running past outside, a visit to Scholar Huang’s Residence, which is a traditional three-sided courtyard-style residence saved from demolition and meticulously reconstructed here, a colossal landscape-art dragon made of red lanterns that casts a reflection of ethereal beauty on the inner lake at night, and the “Fog Forest,” a mist-created enchanted forest of fogginess so thick that the people around you begin to disappear.
National Center for Traditional Arts (國立傳統藝術中心)
Add: No. 201, Wubin Rd., Sec. 2, Jixin Village, Wujie Township, Yilan County
(宜蘭縣五結鄉季新村五濱路二段201號)
Tel: (03) 970-5815
Website: ncfta.gov.tw
Han Tê 漢茶
Scholar Huang’s Residence 黃舉人宅
Wenchang Temple 文昌祠
Wenchang Dijun 文昌帝君
Xiangcheng Jingong 鑲澄金工
Zhuo Ye Indigo Dyeing House 卓也藍染
Taiwanese opera superstar Yang Li-hua visits gezaixi exhibit
Yilan is the birthplace of gezaixi and home to Taiwanese opera's biggest star, Yang Li-hua. At a local theater museum the Yilan Cultural Affairs Bureau opened a special exhibit dedicated to Yang and her role in gezaixi, and today Yang paid the exhibit a visit. Taiwanese opera superstar Yang Li-hua enjoyed the rare chance to watch a performance instead of participating in one. The children were eager to show off their skills.Yang is in her late 60s, but hasn't lost any of her allure among Taiwanese opera fans. When the Taiwan Theater Museum in Yilan built a free gezaixi exhibit area, Yang generously donated costumes, photographs and other artifacts she amassed over the years. She wanted to give fans visiting her hometown of Yilan a chance to reminisce on past opera shows.Yang Li-huaTaiwanes
taiwan 2009- day 3 @ Yilan
buffet spread at taiwan theatre museum.
Heels 2 Wheels: Taiwan - 921 Earthquake Museum of Taiwan in Taichung (Episode 9)
In this episode, Joanne-Marie rides to the 921 Earthquake Museum of Taiwan and is given a guided tour of the remnants of the second-deadliest earthquake in Taiwan, which is now a museum to show visitors how earthquakes happen, and specifically, what happened on the fateful day that it struck Taiwan.
The 921 earthquake occurred at 1:47am local time on Tuesday, September 21, 1999. 2,415 people were killed, 11,305 injured, and NT$300 billion worth of damage was done. It was the second-deadliest quake in recorded history in Taiwan, after the 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung earthquake.
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Story Telling Through Buildings Kris Yao
Taiwanese architect Kris Yao is well known for his way of telling stories through buildings. When Master Sheng-yen asked him to build a monastery to express “Moon in Water, Flower in Air”, Yao didn’t fail him and presented Nung Chan Monastery (Water-Moon Monastery)
The National Museum of Taiwan History
The National Museum of Taiwan History is a great destination for a comprehensive overview of Taiwan’s history, which was largely ignored in the past due to political reasons. The related article is published at
Solo Adventure Taipei Part 3
Jiu Fen Old Street: Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
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????Having Fun in JIUFEN with MT JILONG HIKE (九份好玩)
Jiufen is one of the most popular tourist attractions in greater Taipei. It has scenery, snack foods, history, and lots of tourists. :)
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Jiufen
A trip to the mountain village of Jiufen and its “little sister,” Jinguashi, sits atop the list of things to do for many tourists visiting Taiwan. Both settlements are located in the scenic coastal mountains overlooking the northeast coast, both were once thriving mining centers (copper and gold), and both are worth spending a good amount of time exploring. Below are five places and things to experience/check out/enjoy while there.
Jiufen Old Street
After arriving at Jiufen, most tourists head straight to the Old Street, a narrow and winding pedestrian-only alley lined with souvenir shops and eateries on both sides. Apart from trying some yummy hot or cold (depending on time of year) tapioca and sweet-potato ball soup (Jiufen’s best-known specialty), have a cup of tea at Jiufen A Mei Teahouse, in a beautiful and well-preserved wooden structure with great views, and visit the close-by Shengping Theater, Taiwan’s first cinema, built in 1914 to entertain miners during the heyday of mining in Jiufen.
Jiufen Evening Scenery
Back in Jiufen, make sure to stick around until the evening when the weather is fine. The mountainside-hugging town faces the northwest, meaning that the sun will set to the left when looking out over the coast. The sunset can be quite remarkable and dramatic, especially when there is a scattering of clouds in the sky, a common occurrence on the northeast coast.
Getting there:
Bus from Taipei: There is frequent bus service (No. 1062) from near MRT Zhongxiao Fuxing Station (Exit 1) in downtown Taipei to Jiufen and Jinguashi. The ride takes about an hour.
Railway plus bus: Alternatively, take an eastbound train (heading to Yilan/Hualien) to Ruifang and transfer to a bus bound for Jiufen/Jinguashi or further on to Fulong (passing the Golden Waterfall).
Jiufen 九份
Jiufen A Mei Teahouse 九份阿妹茶樓
Mt. Jilong 基隆山
Shengping Theater 昇平戲院
In the Name of the Nature - Lifelong Forester
Along with the change of social environment, forests have turned to a facility for public welfare with functions including water conservation, ecological conservation, carbon storage and outdoor recreation from a economic benefit provider. It expected that business introduction presented in this DVD may let the public know business of the Forestry Bureau. And foresters in the name of the nature will continue to act as the guardians for natural ecology of Taiwan to meet the change of the time.
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The Ultimate Guide to Yilan County
Yilan is one of the most scenic areas in Taiwan. The rugged coast and rolling green hills provide countless jaw-dropping views for miles!
Traditional Taiwanese puppet Show @ Yilan, Taiwan
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921 earthquake museum of taiwan
The 921 Earthquake Museum of Taiwan is a national museum in Wufeng District, Taichung, Taiwan. The museum is dedicated to the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the center of Taiwan on Tuesday, 21 September 1999
let this be your last Taiwanese Corbomite maneuver puppet thing
The ultimate Star Trek / Taiwanese puppet mashup. Shot at the Taiwan Theater Museum in Yilan, Taiwan.
Google Maps launches 3D images of four Taiwan cities | Taiwan News | RTI
Google Maps now lets you see 3D images of four cities in Taiwan. The images allow armchair travelers to enjoy the sights of Taiwan wherever in the world they may be.
The Taichung train station, National Taichung Theater, and Luce Chapel are all prominent landmarks in the central city of Taichung. A new Google Maps feature now lets would-be visitors explore all of these attractions.
Five Senses of Tainan.m2p
When you come to Tainan, it's practically impossible to not just pig out and look at old temples. Of course there are other things to do as well.
Wang Hao-yi, Tainan Historian:
I wanted to meet you here because this is a really special hotel. Today I'm going to show you a different Tainan.
The Simen Market area in Tainan was once very prosperous, but the infrastructure didn't keep up with the speed of economic development, so this hotel before the big renovation almost fell into ruins.
Wang Hao-yi, Tainan Historian:
This hotel is situated in what was a network of waterways. We wanted to redesign the building with the theme of what this area was in the past. So including the old window bars that you see behind me, old and traditional building materials were rescued from certain recycling death by architect Kuo-Chang Liu, and then given new life by applying a little bit of design to them.
Speaking of reusing old materials, this seed museum nearby was built with a similar spirit. Landscape designer Liang Ying-ling also rescued seeds from various plants that would have otherwise been swept away and thrown away.
Jhao Ying-ling, Seed Museum Director:
When you see them fly or float through the air, or observe them in other ways, you feel that it' s a big waste when they're picked up and discarded. So I decided to collect them. We can use seeds to make colored lip balm, to make necklaces and other accessories. When people come, I also urge them to touch the seeds and feel the wood. Kids don't really have the chance to do these things nowadays.
You can even use your hands to make incense here. Travel gurus say that consciously using the five senses when going through a place will make your travels even more memorable, and on this Tainan experience, I totally agree.