Gaoshan people mainly live in Taiwan Province Province, China, with a few scattered in coastal areas such as Fujian and Zhejiang. Gaoshan people mainly live in the central mountainous area of Taiwan Province Province, the longitudinal valley plain in the east and Lan Yu Island.

2. The characteristics of Gaoshan houses:

In the past, Gaoshan people lived in caves near mountains and rivers, or made grass from bamboo and made wood as their houses. Residential types include wooden houses, bamboo houses, huts, slate houses, grass-topped underground palaces, etc. But they pay great attention to the combination of modeling and practicality. Most of them are rectangular or square, with doors and no windows.

3. Features of Gaoshan language:

Alpine language belongs to Indonesian language family in Austronesian language family. There are great differences in mountain languages in different regions. There are at least 15 languages, which can be roughly divided into three major language families: Atayal, Cao and paiwan, and there are more than ten branches such as Atayal, paiwan and Bunun. There is no common national language. Chinese is widely used by the scattered Gao ethnic groups. There is ah mui, but there is no writing of her own. 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.

4. The characteristics of Gaoshan costumes:

Gaoshan people mostly choose snake patterns in clothing patterns, daily necessities and handicrafts, which is closely related to their living environment and totem. Gaoshan people also have the custom of body decoration, such as tattooing, tooth cutting, ear piercing, hair removal, abdominal girdling and so on. Body decoration is generally for adulthood, beauty, marriage, discipline and honor. After the mid-1940s, the custom of body decoration gradually declined, but its residual influence still exists.

5, Gaoshan diet characteristics:

The diet of Gaoshan people is mainly cereals and rhizomes. Generally, millet, rice, potatoes and taro are common foods, supplemented by miscellaneous grains, wild vegetables and prey. Millet and upland rice are dominant in mountainous areas, and rice is dominant in plains. Except Yamei and Bunun, several other ethnic groups take rice as their daily staple food, 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.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Gaoshan nationality