Summer HeatSummer Feast

When talking about global warming, what are the crises the plants andanimals that live in national parks facing? While in the forest, cicadas arehosting their own summer music festival, singing songs of nature that aresoothing and tranquilizing yet, at times, seems booming and powerful tothe listeners. Meanwhile, a Japalura swinhonis yawns lazily under the leafywild candlenut, using its natural ability to keep cool from the summeryheat. On the other hand, the advent of Kinmen’s City God ReceptionParade with gongs and drums, and the Hakka Bayin playing, can beheard on this sizzling hot summer day, where the welcoming processionfor the City God by the faithful worshippers are in progress, chantingblessings for the land and people. Dishes after dishes of the renownedSoutheast Asian/Kinmen delicacies also foster one's taste buds — creatinga new cultural experience that is felt deep within the heart, and soothesthe nostalgic feeling of each wanderer on the foreign land.

• upper：Kuroshio Ocean Education Foundation / Chin Lei