Keelung's festival has grown from a smallscale, token observance when it began 131 years ago to a major tourist attraction that drew some 200,000 local and visiting spectators from around the island this year and last.
這項持續一百卅一年歷史的普渡慶典，由當年民間小規模的象徵性祭祀擴大為全市年度重要節慶，從去年起更進而成為全省民俗活動的觀光焦點。