Eight sightseeing circles on the East Coast – Hualien and Taitung

【The East Coast—Hualien and Taitung Today and the Past (2)】

【Eight sightseeing circles on the East Coast】

[Colorful ethnic groups on the East Coast]

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The starting point of the coastal mountains at the outlet of Hualien Creek (above)

Hualien Taitung in eastern Taiwan is also called the original hometown,

Share that the historical evolution of the East Coast of Taiwan 11 has resulted in diversity and multi-ethnicity.

The East Coast is not only home to the Ami people, but you will only know the wonderful things if you understand them deeply.

Bisili Coast (above)

The East Coast not only has beautiful scenery, but also has wonderful cultural groups!

There are many ethnic groups distributed on the east coast,

Because the narrow river terraces on the east coast are where settlements and farming gather,

Only Dulan, Changbin, and Chengdu have larger terrain and coastal mountains, with larger undulations and wider areas. They have given birth to various ethnic groups that have gradually entered the east coast and thus become larger settlements!

For more than two hundred years, many ethnic groups have flocked to the east coast one after another, looking for a new world of life among the narrow mountains and seas. Many meaningful and memorable people, things, things and wonderful historical stories have also been produced.

Chimei Tribe (above)

After tens of millions of years of changes, the east coast itself is a wonderful historical storybook. On this land, you can see the Amis people who are struggling for survival, and the Shiraz people who evacuated their homes in the west to avoid the invasion of the Han people. The Ya people, the Sakilaya people who were relocated by the Qing government, the Kavalan people who moved from north to south, the resettled Dachen Yi people, the old veterans, and the Bunun people who inadvertently broke in following their prey, < /p>

The Hokkien and Hakka people who migrated to the east coast for reclamation and business, as well as the Japanese fishermen who created a new era of fishing on the east coast, and stories from different ethnic groups such as the Bethlehem priests and nuns of the Swiss Catholic Church.

Chimei Tribe (above)

King Kong Avenue

1. Amis:

In the Dagang incident in 1877-1878, the Qing army trapped and killed about 160 Amis youths in the Dagang area, which caused the Amis to move south to avoid disaster and established more than a dozen Amis tribes.

The rich traditional culture of the Ami people is represented by the famous harvest season in summer. The traditional society is mainly matrilineal, and the tribal organization is male-right.

There is a strict age group organization. The Ami people have started farming and planting rice very early. Most of the farmland is held by women, while fishing and hunting are male specialties. The gorgeous dresses, Tengwei and pottery in the harvest festival are concrete manifestations of the Amis culture.

2. Sakilaya tribe, Kavalan:

Sakiraiya was originally living in Hualien. In 1878, she escaped the disaster of the Jialiyuan Incident and entered the Amis world. She lived with the Amis and learned the Amis language. It was not until the name rectification movement in 2004 that she showed her true colors to the world. , becoming the 13th aboriginal ethnic group in Taiwan.

In 1878, the Jialiyuan Incident broke out in the Chilai Plain. The Kavalan people of the Jialiyuan community in Chilai and the Sakilaya people of the local Jinlaoye community moved from Yilan to the east of the Coast Mountains after their joint resistance to the Qing Dynasty was frustrated. Among them, the Kavalans live in the Fengbin Xinshe tribe, and the Sakilaya tribe is distributed in Shoufeng Shuilian and Fengbin Jiqi.

The places with the largest number of Sakilea are Shuilian and Isozaki. Among them, Isozaki is the most complete tribe that has preserved the true nature of Sakilea. It lives among the mountains and seas almost isolated from the outside world, retaining its culture, language and ethnic lifeline. .

Shuilian Tribe (pictured above)

Shuilian Coast (above)

There are a large number of Kavalan people in Xinshe,

Located in Fengbin Township, Hualien County, the Xinshe tribe, with the Kavalan as the main ethnic group, is sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and the Coast Mountains. The extensive terraces are a golden beauty during the harvest period. The peninsula terraces The various installation arts on it present the craftsmanship and aesthetics of the Kavalan people, and are also well-known attractions on the east coast. The unique eating habits, rituals, and craftsmanship have been passed down to this day thanks to the efforts of the tribesmen.

Alpine Tribe (above)

3. Min, Ke and immigrants from various places:

After 1895, the Japanese government came to East Taiwan to promote industrial production, plant camphor, reclaim mountains and open up wasteland, and open ports to promote fishing. As a result, Hakkas, Hokkien people, Japanese fishermen, Hengchun, and Green Island fishermen also entered East Taiwan. coast,

4. Bunun:

In the 18th century, the Bunun people who had lived in Nantou began to migrate in large numbers, first to Hualien Zhuoxi and Wanrong, and then from Hualien to Yanping on the seaside of Taitung.

The Bunun are the ethnic group with the most traditional rituals. Due to their emphasis on millet harvesting, they have developed a series of complex and long-lasting rituals, such as weeding, harvesting, storage, and ear-shooting ceremonies.

In 1947, the Bunun people from the Central Mountains also followed the wild boars to the east coast. The eight-part chorus also came to the high mountain tribes of the Coast Mountains and the Changbin Nanxi tribe.

Alpine Tribe (above)

5. Bethlehem Fellows:

Since the Bethlehem missionaries stationed in the Amis tribe in 1953, white Catholic churches have entered the blue sea and blue sky of the east coast one by one.

6. Dachen Islanders:

In 1955, the residents of Dachen Island evacuated to eastern Taiwan with the army. More than 400 people from other provinces with a special Minnan accent were resettled in Fugang to supplement fishing. Fugang New Village became a famous Yi compatriot village on the east coast.

7. Veterans: Since 1965, veterans who have reclaimed land have been resettled by the Retired Auxiliary Association, including Tailai Farm and Donghe Farm. They have all found a place to settle down here.

King Kong Avenue (above)

For more than 200 years, not only the Amis people, but also many other ethnic groups have flocked to the east coast, looking for a new world of life between the narrow mountains and sea, and have also given birth to many meaningful and memorable people. Things, objects and wonderful historical stories.

Nagahama Coast (above)

The East Coast not only has beautiful scenery, but also has wonderful cultural groups!