By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterA celebration parade for the 2018 Taipei Lantern Festival, with shows from 55 groups comprising more than 1,800 performers, was held along the city’s Zhonghua Road Sec 1 (中華路一段) yesterday evening. The parade began at 5:20pm from the intersection of Zhonghua Road and Wenchang Street (武昌街), moving along Zhonghua Road to the main stage at the plaza outside Ximen MRT Station and ended at the Taipei Cinema Park (電影主題公園). Five themes were featured in the parade, which included circus performers and performance artists, floats decorated with visual arts and stage designs, people wearing traditional costumes, and Taiwanese athletes who participated in last year’s Taipei Summer Universiade. Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) joined the parade at about 6pm and played Frisbee with one of the dogs in the parade, who dropped the Frisbee several times. Consequently, the Taipei Department of Health provided free surgical masks to people at the event and a medical equipment manufacturer donated another 10,000 masks.

Source: Taipei Times March 03, 2018 15:56 UTC