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The Gaoshan people are the collective name of the various ethnic groups of the Austronesian language family in Taiwan, mainly living in Taiwan Province of China, and a small number of them are scattered in coastal areas such as Fujian and Zhejiang Provinces.
The alpine people mainly use rice farming economy, supplemented by fishing and hunting production, and the handicrafts of the alpine people mainly include weaving, bamboo weaving, rattan weaving, cutting wood, carving, cutting bamboo and pottery.
Language and culture
The Gaoshan people have their own language, belonging to the Austronesian Indonesian language family, which can be roughly divided into three language groups: Taiya, Zou and Paiwan, and there is no native script.
Fan Dao Mountain Knife
The Mountain People are the masters of Taiwan's mountains and an important asset of Taiwanese culture, and the knives they use represent a symbol of courage, wisdom and strength.
Fan Dao, also known as mountain knife, the aboriginal mountain knife is the tradition of the taiwanese mountain tribe personal sabre, depending on the tribe to which it belongs and its use.
The Taiya are one of the alpine tribes.
The knife of the Taiya people is the longest and most curved mountain knife in the indigenous ethnic group, and the back of the knife is thick.
According to the literature, when the Taiya warriors fought with their old enemies, the Gemmalan and Ami, they swung their swords at each other, and often even the neck bones of the enemy were cut off.
For the men of the indigenous people, the entire life course is inseparable from the knife.
Food culture
The diet of the alpine people is mainly cereals and rhizomes, and generally millet, rice, potatoes, and taro are common food, accompanied by miscellaneous grains, wild vegetables, and prey.
Millet and dry rice are the main grains in mountainous areas and rice in plains.
The Yamei people who live in Lanyu Island eat taro, millet and fish as their main diet.
The Bunun people eat millet, corn and potatoes (locally known as sweet potatoes) as their main diet.
Pingpu people also specialize in fragrant rice and prefer to eat "hundred grass paste" (grass pulp in the deer intestine with salt and eat).
In the past, the diet was squatting raw food, and the diet, cooking, and enjoyment were very elaborate.
The alpine people are addicted to tobacco and alcohol, and eat and chew betel nuts.
Costume culture
The ornamentation of both men and women of the Mountain tribe is colorful, and the style of clothing varies from ethnic group to ethnic group.
There are roughly four types of clothing styles for alpine men:
The first is the northern type represented by the Taiya, Saixia and Northern Ami;
The second is the central type represented by the Cao and Bunun people;
The third is the southern type represented by the Paiwan people, The Beinan people, the Lukai people and the southern A-Mei people;
The fourth is the elegant beauty type of the Yamei people on Lanyu Island.
The types of clothing for alpine women include short skirts and long coats.
There are generally three types: one is the short dress and long skirt style of the Taiya, Saixia, Cao and Ami;
The second is the narrow-sleeved long-sleeved long-sleeved garment style of Bunun, Lukai and Paiwan people;
The third is the semi-nude style of Yamei people, the upper body often wears only a vest, and the lower body only surrounds a waist cloth,
In winter, a square cloth is wrapped around his left shoulder and knotted on his left shoulder.
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