[Global Network Comprehensive Reporter Zhao Youping] The DPP authorities are really beginning to pray for rain... Taiwan is facing a water shortage crisis. Taiwan’s "Minister of Economy" Wang Meihua once said on the 5th that "wells can be drilled for water", but netizens ridiculed "just pray for rain." Forget it".
I didn't expect the joke to come true.
Taiwan’s “Central News Agency” reported on March 7 that Taiwan’s “Cooperative of Agriculture and Water Conservancy Department” and Dajia Zhenlan Palace jointly organized a prayer ceremony on the morning of the 7th.
Taiwan’s "Central News Agency", United News Network and other Taiwanese media said that Taiwan has encountered the worst drought in 56 years. Taiwan’s "Farmland and Water Conservancy Administration" would like to co-organize the Prayer for Rain Ceremony on the morning of the 7th with the "Rain Shui Ma" Dajia Zhenlan Palace. And this is the first time that Zhenlan Palace will hold the Praying for Rain after a lapse of 58 years.
According to the report, on the morning of the 7th, nearly 3,000 people wore white clothes and prayed for the rain. Among them, Chen Rongfu, director of the Taichung Administration of Taiwan’s "Farmland and Water Resources Administration", also attended the event.
The people who participated in the rain praying ceremony all wore white shirts and bowed down as the mage recites the scriptures until the end of the two-hour ceremony.
Taiwan’s "Chairman of the Council of Agriculture" Chen Jizhong said that the Farmland Water Conservancy Association used to have such a custom of praying for rain in the past, and has actively adjusted its farming system to cope with the threat of extreme weather.
According to the report, the drought in Taiwan lasted from last year to this year. According to data from Taiwan’s "Council of Agriculture" at the beginning of this year, the area of the first phase of crop irrigation will exceed 74,000 hectares this year, accounting for 24% of the total irrigation area, the highest in 20 years.
Seeing that Taiwan’s "Water Resources Agency" decided to participate in the rain prayer activities at the Dajia Zhenlan Palace in order to solve the water problem, Taiwan’s former foreign affairs official Jie Wenji lamented that the lack of agricultural water supply needs to be solved by scientific methods. Why did he set up an altar to pray for rain? What?
"This'Cai government' is really joking, and it often makes us feel like we are back before the Republic of China."
The Kuomintang "legislator" Ye Yulan also questioned that Taiwan now has an "economic minister" who is thirsty digging a well and an agricultural director who prays to Mazu for rain. "Maybe if the vaccine is not available, we will also be asked to drink water to protect our safety."
The Kuomintang "legislator" Lai Shibao said that drought does not rain, and he is worried that the technology industry will have no water. "We must dig wells for water," and we will ask the gods to solve the water shortage. However, the government has no professional management ability to solve the problem.
The rainfall in Taiwan is 2.6 times that of the world (average). In contrast, Israel only rains for 30 days a year. "Why can we create agricultural miracles in the arid desert?" Lai Shibao said that we can see what effective governance is. .
Some netizens on the island ridiculed the DPP authorities, "This'government' has a way to beg the gods to bless this trick... How can it be impossible to do so..."
"Don't ask the heavens to ask the ghosts and gods, there are still people in modern society who are superstitious to ask ghosts and gods to rain. Why doesn't the Meteorological Bureau close its doors and change it to a meteorological temple?"