“2024 Lukang Dragon Boat Festival Celebration Series – Dragon God Ceremony”, an unique folk ceremony in Taiwan, is always held before the annual Dragon Boat Race to announce the coming of the Dragon Boat Festival Celebration Series. Today (11th) is a fortune day, the second day of the second lunar month, which called "Dragon rising its head" (Long Tai Tou, 龍抬頭). In this morning, County Mayor Wang HuiMei asked the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara and Dragon God for instructions on the date of the Dragon God Ceremony event by casting divination blocks. The Gods agreed to set the date of both Dragon God Ceremony event and Dragon Boat Launching Ceremony event to May 12th (Sunday). Lukang Dragon Boat Festival Celebration is listed as one of the ten major festivals in Taiwan and is the largest dragon boat festival event with longest history in Taiwan. A series of exciting activities will be launched during the event to present Lukang’s splendor in old time and Lukang’s artistic beauty. County Mayor Wang invited everyone from all over Taiwan to visit Changhua on Dragon Boat Festival to watch the dragon boat race, taste culinary delights, appreciate historical sites, play traditional folk games, experience Changhua’s local Dragon Boat Festival customs and admire the beauty of Lukang's humanities and art.