Ming Hwa Yuan Annual Classic Opera - "The Wishing Goddess"

Ming Hwa Yuan Ri Zi Theatre Troupe's annual classic opera "The Wishing Goddess" descended upon Xinbeitou, attracting over 3,000 live audience members to the evening event of the "2025 Taipei Hot Spring Festival" on November 1. The performance also amazed guests from 18 hot spring areas across Japan who were in Taiwan for the Asia-Pacific International Hot Spring Symposium and Exchange Conference!

Ming Hwa Yuan Annual Classic Opera - "The Wishing Goddess"

"The Wishing Goddess" is fictionally set during the Liu Song Dynasty, a period rarely explored in theatrical works, yet it was the first dynasty of the Southern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period in Chinese history. An interesting character in the play, "Gu Wan-Fu," connects to the playwright's concept of the "God of Poverty," weaving a futile bargain - three incense sticks to grant three wishes. But this is the God of Poverty, presiding over "poverty, illness, suffering, loneliness, and widowhood" - can these three wishes truly be fulfilled? Fulfilling one brings misfortune to another. What strange events transpire between Gu Wan-Fu and the God of Poverty? "The Wishing Goddess"
refuses to view poverty through worldly eyes. There are far too many mysteries in the universe beyond human control, and through layer upon layer of story development, you will come to understand the true rewards between giving and receiving, and between destitution and poverty.

Organizer:
#TaipeiHotSpringDevelopmentAssociation
#TaiwanAsiaPacificInternationalHotSpringTourismAssociation
Co-organizers:
#TaiwanCommercialDistrictCulturalTourismIndustryFederation
#TaipeiCityCommercialDistrictIndustryAssociation
Sponsor:
#TaipeiCityDepartmentOfCulturalAffairs
Performing Troupe:
#MingHwaYuanRiZiTheatreTroupe