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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Travel in Taiwan magazine (2017-05-06)
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
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Best place to visit in Yilan.Lanyang Museum in Yilan.You must come to visit this amazing museum and one of the tourist spot in Yilan Taiwan.If you wonder where you can go here in Yilan definitely check this museum.Lanyang Museum has a incredible structure and every tourist will enjoy taking pictures.
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The museum was designed by renowned architect Kris Yao, modeled on the shape of the cuesta landform commonly seen along Taiwan's northeast coast, with reference to other local geographical features including Guishan Island and the Wushi coral reefs. It reflects Yilan's scenic, cultural and historical characteristics.
The Lanyang Museum in Taiwan's northeastern Yilan County is among the winning buildings in the 2012 International Architecture Awards, according to the county government Sept. 3.
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Yilan Park of the National Center for Traditional Arts
國立傳統藝術中心傳藝文化園區
The large 3D instillation artwork, the Positive Divination Blocks (shing bwei), shows a positive result (one flat side up and one bulging side up) and it is located at the entrance of the Yilan Park of the National Center for Traditional Arts, symbolizing that all dreams will come true for visitors. The Yilan Park of the National Center for Traditional Arts was set up to preserve traditional Taiwanese arts, and opened to the public in Oct. of 2003. The Park has reproductions of traditional buildings and recreates scenes from the lives of the common people based on “Folk Customs Street”, Wenchang Street of Sanxia Old Street. Various shops sell traditional craftworks and visitors can also see the masters at work. The original accommodation space for masters and apprentices is now managed by a hotel which offers visitors a chance to experience the beauty of the traditional arts the Yilan Park has to offer first hand.
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Visited the National Center for Traditional Arts in Luodong and got to see people work hard to create amazing crafts by hand including leather workers and metal workers. A beautiful old-town style street you don't oft see anymore
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Yilan city is located in the central Lanyang Plain, looking out to sea on Taiwan's northeast coast. Only 50 minutes from Taipei, it would be easy to visit this Disney-like Center filled with free art performances daily, e.g. Chinese opera; changing exhibits - Wu Ching's incredible and lifelike gold insects were on exhibit when we visited; and a typical old street filled with shops selling and demonstrating creative arts.
No two stores were alike. Whether it was hand-painting parasols, hundreds of ocarinas to choose from, or creating typical Taiwanese food, a fascinating place to visit.
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Welcome to my 29th vlog! In this vlog, you'll see me go to the Luodong Forest Cultural Park, Chun Restaurant, and the National Center for Traditional Arts in Taiwan!
I will say that the National Center for Traditional Arts might be my new favorite place in Taiwan that is outside of Taipei. I loved how that there was always something to explore in there and that we got to dye cloths. I love trips where I can just dive into the culture, rather than simply just looking at it. But I will also say that the National Center for Traditional Arts is also quite beautiful.
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