VIDEO: Yanshui: More than just a fireworks festival

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 02 October, 2019
By: Shirley Lin

When people in Taiwan think of Yanshui, they immediately think of the famous Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival. But the town is also popular for its old street, where old traditions are still practiced and old houses are preserved.

Tainan’s Yanshui District is home to a hundred year old ironsmith that is still open, hammering iron tools the old fashioned way. And it’s far from the only venerable old institution around. A stroll down Yanshui’s old street is a trip back to the era of the Qing Dynasty. Chiao Nan Street was once on an important thoroughfare through the Tainan area. It is now one of Taiwan’s only remaining streetscapes dating from the Qing period.    [FULL  STORY]