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Podcast: News Bites
Episode: King Boat, Prime Minister, Renaming Art
Description: Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!
I'm Trevor Tortomasi…
And I'm Clifford Chu.
In today's news:
A boat gets burned to the ground, British people are mad at their Prime Minister, and an old painting gets a new name.
All that and more, coming up next.
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東港迎王平安祭典
Donggang's King Boat Burning Festival
The years of the Bull, Dragon, Goat, and Dog are auspicious (吉祥) for the people of Donggang (東港).
These are the years they get to take part in a special ceremony for "Wangye" (溫王爺), also called the god of plague (瘟疫之神).
The celebration is called the Wangye Worshipping, or the Donggang Boat Burning Ceremony, a...