Chinese New Year (CNY) is, by a wide margin, the most celebrated and important holiday for Chinese culture. Each year in Taipei, the mood of the entire populous becomes a little more cheery, lively and vivid. Markets open up, the colors red and gold make the concrete structures a little more bearable. This year, we attempted to be out and around it as much as time allowed.
Living in Guandu, a neighborhood in northern Taipei, I'm located at a particularly lively spot during this holiday. On a high point near the Danshui River, sit a number of temples, the largest being Guandu Temple, first erected in 1661.
These Daoist/Buddhist temples get excessive traffic during CNY, so Ruei and I went out to be among the throngs. Here's a few photos from the holiday.
