The granddaddy of festivals Looking back over the history of the Lukang Dragon Boat Festival, you could say that this is the granddaddy of the celebrations of traditional folk holidays that have in recent years been organized on a large scale throughout Taiwan. As early as 1977, local people, hoping to recapture some of the former glory of the days when Lukang was Taiwan's second most important settlement, organized the first such event.
民俗節慶開先河回首鹿港慶端陽活動，可以說是台灣各地民俗節慶的鼻祖。