The spirit of Electric-Techno Neon Gods

▲After mottled color painted on traditional culture, Electric-Techno Neon Gods seems vivid.
(Source：Taiwan Community- Electric-Techno Neon Gods　）

Making the website to introduce Electric-Techno Neon Gods, understanding the story and related information of Third Prince- Na Zha, yet, at the same time, we also wonder the cultural definition of Electric-Techno Neon Gods represented for. What’s the meaning of Electric-Techno Neon Gods? Why can Electric-Techno Neon Gods earn so much popularity?

As mentioned before, this is a sub-cultural performance combined with tradition and innovation. Yes, the spirit of original meaning has been kept and merged with the innovation in the mean while. But what’s motivation of being innovative?

The answer is “survival”.

Just like the feeling of falling of “prosperous area” when passing by Tataocheng. A cultural core existing from Qing Dynasty became an “old district” that’s never bustling and flourishing, a former space replaced by matchbox constructions, rapid driveways and supermarkets. That’s a pity what has also happened on Electric-Techno Neon Gods. It was originally the commitment, the pedestal of our ancestors. Today, no one take traditional culture seriously.

▲Electric-Techno Neon Gods is gradually climbing up with Taiwanese culture and being active in front of the people.
(Source：Eslite Bookstore Online- I love Electric-Techno Neon Gods! Third Prince Club）

Although facing the declining of traditional religion culture and the loss of audience, Din Tao Troops still not give up. To continue the spirit of traditional religion, they joined modern material and strived for innovation and creativity. Therefore, the Electric-Techno Neon Gods preserve not only Third Prince’s spirits and value, but also make people to recognize Taiwan’s traditional culture once again, and let Third Prince’s culture and spirit inherited. Although the appearance of Electric-Techno Neon Gods makes the emerging culture replaced Taiwan’s traditional one, but Electric-Techno Neon Gods impersonate the deities, minify the gap between deities and people, and attract people get closer to the religion in a more familiar way.

The declining traditional Taiwan culture where the MRT cannot even reach, was originally waiting for the fragmentation which have been through the battered by the wind and the rain. Under the spirit of Taiwanese to pursue survival, through the way of merging and innovating, bringing this region of extremis and oblivion in front of the people.

(Reference： I love Electric-Techno Neon Gods! Third Prince Club introductory Cloudy Sky Studio published in 2010 )