To mark tomorrow’s Dragon Boat Festival, a number of charity organizations — including the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families, the Renai Senior Citizens’ Home and Huashan Social Welfare Foundation — have enlisted volunteers to make tens of thousands of glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves, known as zongzi, for the disadvantaged across the country.
To boost sales of zongzi on the holiday, Taipei’s Nanmen Market last week hosted a special “100 zongzi banquet” featuring 100 varieties of the wrapped dumplings. Of these, Li Jia’s Huzhou zongzi were voted the nation’s No. 1 in a survey, while Shanghai Hoshing’s version, made with Singleton whisky, proved very popular.
The 2019 Taipei International Dragon Boat Championship will take place at the Dajia Riverside Park between tomorrow and Sunday. In celebration of Taiwan’s legalization of same-sex marriage, the “Rainbow Punch” dragon boat team, formed by a group of gay men, is set to join the race, and will be inviting LGBT people and their supporters to cheer for them during the races.
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(Eddy Chang, Taipei Times)
明天是端午節,為了歡慶佳節,多個慈善團體—包括台灣家扶基金會、仁愛之家、華山基金會—近日動員義工包了數萬顆粽子,將這種以竹葉包裹的糯米點心,分送給各地的弱勢者。
為了刺激端午節買氣,台北市的南門市場上週特別舉辦一場「百粽宴」,展示出一百種五花八門的粽子。其中立家湖州粽在一項評比中,被票選為全國總冠軍。而上海合興新推出的蘇格登威士忌粽,也吸引外界不少關注。
此外二○一九年台北國際龍舟錦標賽明日起一連三天,於大佳河濱公園登場。為了慶祝台灣通過同婚合法化,一群男同志組成的「彩虹重擊」龍舟隊亦將參賽,並邀請同志族群及他們的支持者前往觀戰為該隊加油。
(台北時報張聖恩)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
Around the time of the Dragon Boat Festival in June, the streets of Taiwan are filled with the delightful aroma of zongzi, a traditional snack made of sticky rice wrapped in leaves. The leaves are folded into a cone and then filled with sticky rice and other ingredients such as braised pork belly, peanuts and salted duck egg yolks. The filled leaves are then tightly tied with kitchen twine and ready for cooking. 每到六月端午時節,街頭巷尾就會飄出粽子的香氣。粽子是將糯米包進粽葉的傳統美食,先將粽葉折成圓錐狀塞入糯米,以及紅燒肉、花生、鹹鴨蛋黃等配料,用棉線綁緊後即可烹煮。 Dragon Boat Festival (n. phr.) 端午節 aroma
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A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)