Gaoshan nationality is the collective name of ethnic minorities in Taiwan Province Province. The ethnic origin of Gaoshan nationality is multi-source, but it mainly comes from a branch of Guyue people in the southeast coast of Chinese mainland. Since the Han people moved to Taiwan Province Province, the aborigines have been divided into two parts: one part settled in the plain and merged with the Han people, which is called Pingpu people, and the other part still settled in the mountainous area, which is less influenced by the Han people and still retains the characteristics of the aborigines' languages and customs. Nowadays, Gaoshan people refer to these ethnic minorities in general. Most of them are distributed in the central mountainous areas and islands in the southeast, and a few are scattered in Fujian, Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan and other places.

Gaoshan people have their own language, but they don't have their own writing. The Gaoshan compatriots living in Taiwan Province Province have their own unique culture and art, and their oral literature is rich, including myths, legends and folk songs. Most Gaoshan people are engaged in agriculture, and a few are engaged in fishing and hunting. There are handicrafts such as carving and weaving.

custom

Women are forbidden to use knives and axes after pregnancy, and it is forbidden to eat ape meat, bobcat meat, pangolin meat and miscellaneous fruits. A woman's loom can't be touched by a man. On celebration days, beautifully carved mugs made of wood are usually used, and the two drink side by side to show intimacy. If you have guests, you must kill the chicken and treat them. Leave the drumsticks when entertaining guests, and let them eat them on the way when they leave, which means that eating drumsticks will make you walk stronger.

marriage customs

At the wedding, the millet is ground into powder, mixed with water, wrapped in fish and shrimp (the shrimp shows its tail), kneaded into balls the size of eggs, boiled in a boiling pot, and taken out to celebrate.

Dietary customs

The daily staple food is mainly rice, supplemented by potatoes and miscellaneous grains. In the production method of staple food, most Gaoshan people like to cook rice or steam glutinous rice and corn flour into cakes and cakes.

Alpine vegetables come from a wide range, most of which are planted and a small amount is collected. Common ones are pumpkin, leek, radish, cabbage, potato, beans, pepper, ginger and various wild vegetables. Gaoshan people generally love to eat ginger, and some directly use ginger dipped in salt as a dish; Some are pickled with salt and pepper.

The source of meat mainly depends on pigs, cows and chickens. Fishing and hunting are also a supplement to daily meat in many areas, especially the Gaoshan people who live in the mountains. Captured prey is almost the main source of daily meat.

Gaoshan people used to drink neither boiled water nor tea. Atayal people like to drink cold water soaked in ginger or pepper. It is said that this drink has the effect of treating abdominal pain. I used to hunt in the mountains and also had the habit of drinking animal blood. Both men and women are addicted to alcohol and generally drink their own brewed rice wine, such as millet wine, rice wine and potato wine.

Holidays and festivals

Gaoshan people are uninhibited and like to hold banquets and song and dance parties on festivals or festive days. Every festival, pigs and old cows should be slaughtered, and a banquet should be given to give wine. The most representative foods of Gaoshan banquet guests are cakes and bazan made of various glutinous rice. It can be used not only as a holiday snack, but also as a sacrifice. And cooked glutinous rice to entertain guests.

There are many sacrificial activities of Gaoshan ethnic groups, including ancestor worship, valley worship, mountain worship, hunting worship, wedding worship and harvest worship, among which the five-year sacrifice is the most grand. At that time, besides banquet offerings, there will be various cultural and sports activities. Wedding and banquet scenes are very rich and spectacular, especially a lot of wine should be prepared. At that time, participants drank a lot of alcohol and had the custom of staying drunk. On the "Harvest Festival",