The Kingdom of the Great Belly is a "cross-ethnic quasi-kingdom" established by the Babula people of Taiwan in the mid-16th century, together with the Maowu Han clan, the Ba Zehai clan and a part of the Hongya clan, and the tribal co-lord is called the Dadu Fan Wang. The areas were mainly in today's Taichung County, as well as part of Changhua County and Nantou County. Big Belly King, or Big Belly King, is called keizer van middag in Dutch, meaning King of the Day. The kingdom perished during the Qing Yongzheng period.
There are two well-documented and well-documented monarchs of the Belly King, camachat aslamie (Dutch: camachat maloe) and Camachat maloe. The Han chinese called aslamie quataong, and the scholar Weng Jiayin speculated that it may be a reversal of the Hoan-á-ong (Fanzai Wang) language of hoan-á-ong (Fanzai Wang). The Dutch call it keizer van middag, and the Taiwanese aborigines call it lelien, which means the king of the day. Successive kings have taken cammachat as their surname, and camachat is also another name for babura, and some modern literary works will directly refer to the kingdom of camachat as the kingdom of the belly. After the death of camacht aslamie in 1648, his nephew Maloe succeeded him as king of the belly. After Maloe succeeded to the throne, because he was still young, most of the negotiations with the Dutch East India Company were attended by his stepfather tarraboe with a cane, and because the belly community at that time tended to maintain the family lineage with women at the core, the local real power was in the hands of Maloe's grandmother.
The territory of the Kingdom of the Big Belly
The Dutch East India Company colonized Taiwan in 1624, and after conquering northern Taiwan in 1642, the Dutch aimed to conquer the western plains
The kingdom of the big belly rises and falls
Min, to connect the north and south of Taiwan. The Dutch received information from Chinese pirates that there were 22 village communes in the central Mazhiyuan region (around Fuxing Township and Lukang Township in Changhua County), of which 18 villages south of Dajia Creek were ruled by a leader named Kamachat aslamie.
In 1644, Dutch captain Pieter Boon led an expedition to the uncontrolled aborigines of northern Taiwan, and after victory, went south to open up land routes, but was unsuccessful due to a strong counterattack by the Baburas. The following year piter boon attacked again, destroying 13 anti-Dutch villages, and Kamachat aslamie had to accept the coordination of the priest Simon van Breen (1643-1647).
In April 1645 the Dutch convened a local conference in the south, and kamachat aslamie made a pact with the Dutch East India Company to submit, but until the Dutch left Taiwan in 1662, the kingdom remained semi-independent. The Kingdom of The Belly refused to accept Christianity, allowing Europeans to pass through the territory without allowing them to settle, and without Dutch translators.
Although the Kingdom of the Great Belly was friendly to the Dutch and Indian companies, it never returned to the Ming Dynasty. In 1661, Zheng Chenggong led an army across the sea, defeated the Dutch and Indian army, and gained the right to rule Taiwan. Due to the implementation of the policy of "integration of soldiers and farmers", the Dispatch of Zheng Jun to various places for reclamation, infringing on the activity space of the indigenous peoples, led to several armed conflicts between the Ming and Zheng Dynasties and the Kingdom of Dadu.
Among them, in 1670, the Shayuan Society under the jurisdiction of the Great Belly Kingdom resisted, and was strongly suppressed by the Ming Zheng general Liu Guoxuan, slaughtering only six people, almost exterminating the clan, known in history as Liu Guoxuan's slaughter of the village.
In 1722 (the sixty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty), Huang Shuxuan, who served as the inspector of the imperial history of Taiwan, recorded in his book "Records of the Envoys of the Taiwan Strait": "The shape of the big belly mountain looks like a hundred pheasant high cities, and there used to be a long name and big eyebrows. Although there are only a few words, it shows that in the 17th century, there was indeed a "super-tribal" belly kingdom in central Taiwan.
In 1731 (the ninth year of Yongzheng), Qing court officials assigned too much labor to the aborigines, causing the aborigines to revolt, and the Dajia Xishe Rebellion (Dajia Xishe Anti-Qing Incident) occurred, which was suppressed the following year, and the tribes of all ethnic groups fled their original places of origin and moved to the area of Puli (northern Nantou County), and the Kingdom of Dadu finally collapsed.