Lin Youyi, a young man from Chinese Taiwan, who has settled in Zhongshan, is transplanting the Electric-Techno Neon Gods performance into the cultural soil of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area by blending it with street dance.

Electric-Techno Neon Gods, or Techno Prince Nezha, is a temple-parade performance that fuses Taiwan's traditional folk processional arts with modern electronic dance music. Performers wear embroidered robes and pacifiers, ride customized motorcycles with colorful flags flying from their backs, and move to pulsing beats in playful, exaggerated dance steps.

"In Taiwan, Prince Nezha is a deity worshipped at temples. In Zhongshan, I want it to become a bridge connecting young people across the Taiwan Strait," said Lin.

With his adapted Electric-Techno Neon Gods choreography, Lin has drawn over 200 students. This brightly costumed troupe has joined the Zhongshan Charity Parade several times, putting southern Fujian folk culture on more people's radar.

Now Lin is pushing deeper integration between Electric-Techno Neon Gods and intangible cultural heritage performances in Zhongshan, such as Drunken Dragon Dance and Lion Dance. He is also exploring collaborations that would place it alongside traditional arts including Crane Dance and Piaose.