The 22nd National Award for Arts announced seven winners on Dec. 8, which includes writer Ping Lu, documentary maker Huang Ming-chuan, Beiguan musician Chiu Huo-jung, choreographer Bulareyaung Pagarlava, performance troupe founder Wang Rong-yu, landscape architect Kuo Chung-dwan, and filmmaker and actress Sylvia Chang.
"Taiwan's First Ba Jia Jiang Eighth Generals," a photographic work by Miaoli-based photographer Tzeng Chin-fa featuring a "rice dumplings master" dressed up as a Ba Jia Jiang (Eight Generals) dancer, was honored as one of the top ten best event photographs at the 2020 Budapest International Foto Awards.
To honor the late Hakka cultural preserver Hsu Teng-chih for her contributions to the transmission and preservation of Hakka culture and language, Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te conferred a posthumous presidential citation on behalf of President Tsai Ing-wen in a ceremony held on Dec. 6.