"In 1994 tens of thousands of people came, but Shihfen couldn't feed them all, and traffic was paralyzed," says Hu, recalling the period when Pinghsi's lanterns first began to get a lot of attention.
「民國八十三年吧，那一年，來了好幾萬人，不但十分地區無法提供餐飲，交通也完全癱瘓，」胡民樹述說著平溪天燈開始大放光明的過程。