As one of the most spectacular festivals of the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival also marks the grand finale of the New Year festivities. For thousands of years, traditional activities such as appreciating lanterns, carrying lanterns and solving riddles are still well preserved to this day. In modern day lantern festivals, fashion, technology and traditional elements are integrated to these ancient practices. By paying homage to tradition through the renditions brought by technology, viewers are now able to experience innovative forms of art that breathe new life into tradition.

The National Palace Museum (NPM) is invited to present a special exhibition at the Taiwan Lantern Festival for the very first time this year at the invitation of the Chiayi County Government. The exhibition will pivot around the theme of the Chinese New Year and the imagery of nature thriving in spring. As the Chinese aphorism goes, "the whole year's plan is made in spring." The exhibition integrates lanterns for the year of the dog with floral designs to highlight the theme. Aside from large-scaled projections of “Painting Animation," presenting the vigorous long scroll paintings from the museum's collection, the exhibition will display A Tour of the Imperial Garden and Spring Birth, two digital artworks inspired by Giuseppe Castiglione's Immortal Blossoms in an Everlasting Spring, and also the interactive installation "Tree of Colors", echoing the vibrant Taiwan Lantern Festival with beautiful and dazzling displays.

For this exhibition, the NPM reinterprets the brilliance and exuberance of the museum's collection through technology and presents a lantern-shaped exhibition venue that radiates in the night. The exhibition conveys the complementary relationship between conventional artworks and innovative technology, hoping to render national treasures in a new light and to celebrate the ending of the New Year festivities in a joyous atmosphere.