Encounter with Hoodev: Water, always nostalgic for the place where it flows

The author of this article poses with Mr. Hoodev (left). (Image courtesy of the author of this article.) ）

Meeting Mr. Hoodev was an unexpected surprise.

On that day, we came out of the Xiangyang Salary Passing Wood Workshop above Taitung Tara Station and went to dine at the Aegean Restaurant by the sea, where Mr. Defu accompanied his family and relatives and friends at our neighboring table. Some of the companions who had heard Mr. Defu's natural homesickness in CCTV's "Classic Aria" not long ago hugged him to shake hands with Mr. Dev and take a photo.

Mr. Hu Defu is known as the "father of Taiwanese folk songs" and the "father of Taiwanese ethnic minority songs". The songs of Taiwanese ethnic minorities he sang, and his thick voice burst out of his broad chest, like ancestors running and shouting in the alpine forest. In 1973, Mr. Hu Defu held the first solo concert in the history of Taiwanese music in Taipei.

Mr. Hu Defu is a talented singer and protector of the rights and interests of Taiwan's ethnic minorities. In the 1980s, together with Monaneng, a blind poet of Taiwan's ethnic minorities known as "Homer of Taiwan", he founded the "Taiwan Ethnic Minority Rights Promotion Association" to fight for and safeguard the rights and interests of Taiwan's ethnic minorities. On June 20, 1984, an explosion at the Haishan Coal Mine on the outskirts of Taipei killed 72 miners, mostly ethnic Ami. Mona was so indignant that he wrote poems such as "Why", "Black and White", and "Complaint from the Underground" to complain about the unfair treatment of ethnic minorities. Hoodfu composed and sang for Why. The two sons of ethnic minorities from Taitung's Dawu Mountains stood side by side to cry out for the rights of their people.

Monano is the son of the Paiwan tribe, whose ancestors fought bravely against the Japanese invaders in 1874 during the "Peony Society Incident" when Japan first invaded Taiwan, and after the failure of the struggle, the clan was forced to migrate to the Aruwe tribe on the pacific coast of the dawu mountain. Mr. Hudev's father is a Beinan and his mother is a Paiwan, and he calls himself a "Beibai". These two men, who flowed with the blood of the Paiwan people, came to Taipei from Taitung, but the hustle and bustle of the city did not obscure the souls of Mount Taiwu and the Pacific Ocean. Monanon's poems narrate the grief of the Paiwan people and show their struggle with the real world. Hu Defu's song conveyed the indomitable fate of Taiwan's ethnic minorities to the world.

The Paiwan people call themselves "descendants of the Hundred Steps Snake", and they are brave and full of resistance. However, in the historical changes of Taiwan in modern times and more than a hundred years, their strength has appeared small and weak. They rose up against the Japanese invaders and were slaughtered in defeat. They fought against the colonists, but eventually lost their land and forests. They were put by the colonists as animals at the International Fair for people to visit. They were educated by the imperial people, and the youth were forcibly sent to the battlefield of the invaders and lost their lives. Until now, some of them have been bribed and become accomplices in oppressing their people. Some have even become fellow travelers for "Taiwan independence."

However, Monanon and Hudev have always kept the justice in their hearts. Mona can continue to criticize and expose the DPP's "Taiwan independence" essence and look forward to the early reunification of the two sides of the strait. Mr. Hu Defu even went on a cross-strait campaign, singing and singing about the vast Chinese culture, interpreting nostalgia, and calling for a yearning for reunification.

Compared with the identification of Monanon and Hu Defu with Chinese culture, the analysis of the "Taiwan values" by Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen, a descendant of Fujian immigrants, is ridiculous. Tsai Ing-wen gave up the cultural identity of her ancestors and traveled thousands of miles to the South Pacific island country to carry out a "journey to find relatives", the purpose of which was "the heart of Sima Zhao, known to passers-by". Tsai Ing-wen vainly attempted to use the so-called Taiwan minority as the earliest master of Taiwan, and this master was from the South Pacific, to deny the fact that Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times. Therefore, Taiwan's ethnic minorities, including the Paiwan people, had to follow Tsai Ing-wen to the South Pacific Island country to find their ancestors.

In fact, for the ethnic minorities in Taiwan, the ancestors are all the spirits of the earth, just like the Paiwan people, the hundred-step snake is their worship. It is a ridiculous thing that Tsai Ing-wen has traveled thousands of miles to find them a similar sect, and it is just an episode in the "de-Sinicization" on the island.

Can the Tsai Ing-wen DPP authorities spare no effort to "de-Sinicize"?

That day at the Xiangyang Salary Passing Carpentry Workshop at Dora Station, the Paiwan little sister introduced to us why more and more Paiwan youth returned to Dawu Mountain and came to the Xiangyang Salary Passing Carpentry Workshop. This place that was hit hard by the "Eighty-Eight" wind disaster was far away from the city and did not have high salaries. "Because," she said, "we Paiwan proverbs say that water is forever nostalgic for where it has passed." "This land backed by mountains and facing the Pacific Ocean is their homeland.

Yes, water will always linger where it travels. When Taiwan's ethnic minorities chased water and grass to catch sambar deer, it was the Han people who taught them farming culture, and it was Zheng Chenggong who first brought the rule and governance of the Central Plains to Taiwan, they lived under the dragon flag fluttering for more than two hundred years, and the water of Taiwan has long been integrated into Chinese culture. The words of the little sister of the Paiwan ethnic group made me understand more about the Monano Hudevs, and Tsai Ing-wen's DEMOCRATIC Progressive Party 's vain attempt to achieve the goal of "Taiwan independence" through "de-Sinicization" is wishful thinking.

However, can Tsai Ing-wen's DPP listen to these real "Voices of Taiwan"? (Taiwan Network Special Author: and ten)

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