Taiwanese designers Xiao Qing-Yang (蕭青陽) and Hsiao Chun-tien (蕭君恬) won the Best Recording Package award for the design of the "Beginningless Beginning" album cover at the 65th GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles. This is the second consecutive year Taiwanese designers have won the award. Head of the Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles Chien Teh-yuan (簡德源) extended congratulations to them on behalf of Culture Minister Shih Che at the award ceremony.
Xiao said after the ceremony that the album is about inheritance from generation to generation, which makes receiving the award with his daughter particularly meaningful.
This is Xiao's seventh nomination for the GRAMMY Awards and a first with his daughter. As the first-ever collaboration between the father and daughter, the project "Beginningless Beginning" is a soundtrack album for the short film "Tamsui-Kavalan Trails Trilogy." Combining the sounds of creeks, valleys, insects, and birds along the Tamsui-Kavalan Trails with ancient melodies, this album hopes to present a creative blend between the two. Inspired by glove puppets, the album imitates the appearance of a folding camera, trying to record the centuries-old paths our ancestors trekked and the music they heard. The designing team hopes to share the rich and beautiful Taiwanese culture and "the routes our forefathers took" with the world.
Minister Shih stated that through the design of record packaging, more people can learn about Taiwanese culture, which corresponds to his desire to "strengthen Taiwan content and build cultural confidence."