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Category of our Cyberfair Entry
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In the past, Hong Ye was the
habitat of the Amis Tribe, who scattered along the slopes around the police precinct.
As there were many “lynxes,” people called it “kaoyao.” Due to typhoons and
flooding, the aboriginals of the Amis lost most of their land. In addition,
because of the invasion of Bunun, they moved to the west of the Coastal Mountains, i.e. Hekang now. After the
Bunun Tribe migrated to Hong Ye, they settled down along the banks of Hong Ye
River. They had a very small population only. In 1933, the Truku Tribe migrated
here and called this place “Y-hunang.” As
this piece of land was long and narrow, covered with trees’ shade, especially
maple trees; therefore, people called it “Hong Ye”
(red leaves). However, the people of the tribe still called it “Y-hunang.”
The
Truku Tribe of Hong Ye Village belongs to the Truku clan of the Sedeq Tribe. When they first moved
here, the people mainly settled along the left bank of Hong Ye River at the
west of Ruei-Shui Hot Spring and the southern slope of Hu-tou Mountain. Therefore, people regarded them
as Hong Ye Tribe. A small number of them lived on the slope of Ti-chia Mountain, near Hong Ye Hot Spring now.
Therefore, people called them “Hsibao” (treasure of the west). The tribe that
followed was Bunun of Mahowandan Clan; they lived at the eastern corner of Hong
Ye Tribe.
The Hong Ye community is the
southernmost community of Wan-rung Township (Aborigines’ Township), at 3km west of Tai-Route 9 from
Ruei-shui. Now, the Hualien County government plans to turn it
into New Ruei-shui Hot Spring Zone (covering 500 hectares at Ruei-shui Township and 360 hectares of Hong Ye
Village, an-rungTownship). Likewise, the entire Hong Ye community
is included in the Hot Spring Zone. In addition, most of the important hot springs are located in this community.
Now, the community has come to a consensus that we are going to develop it into
a sightseeing and leisure hot spring zone. In addition to the natural
resources, the hot springs, we will highlight the regional culture
(aboriginal songs and dance, traditional handicrafts, tradition food, etc). In
order to continue aboriginal culture, with the same consensus, Hong Ye
Elementary School and the community always sponsor activities to continue the tribal cultures, with which we would like to
manifest the community’s energy. Likewise, we can activate our community to
attract more visitors and improve the operation of the community organizations
and living quality.
Although most of the inhabitants in this community are of Truku origin, most of them do
not understand their own tribal culture much. Fortunately, with the endeavor of
the enthusiasts, we are able to preserve and inherit the Truku culture;
likewise, it can continue. With this research project, we hope to regain all
the things we had and allow our next generation to enjoy the cultural treasure
left to us by our ancestors.
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Aerial View of Hongye
Tribe
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Symbolic Entrance of the Hongye Tribe
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Abstract
of our research project
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Recognized
as a tribe by the government on January 14, 2004, Truku shares similar
customs and cultures with the Atayal Tribe. Both of us live in the high
mountains, hunt, plow the water field, and regard the rainbow as god’s bridge.
Although we live on neighboring habitats, we cannot communicate with each other
with our native languages. Therefore, we hardly interact with each other.
As time progress, under the impacts of new culture, the
people of the Truku Tribe cannot help but exclaim, “Life is getting more and
more difficult!” In recent years, due to the changes in political and cultural environment,
Taiwan’s aborigines are beginning to return to their own
tribes and the tribes’ people are beginning to awake. However, we are astonished
to discover that we are so alien to our own cultures.
Likewise, we begin to interview the elders, the learned
people, and the cultural workers in the villages, to record the elders’ oral
history and collect the visible documents. Eventually, we would like to present
to all the people the Truku’s oral literature, unique hunting culture, delicate
weaving culture, magic bamboo plate mouthpiece, music, dance, myths and
legends, etc.
With
the completion of these works, we do not only
intend to record the last glimpse of Truku’s culture, but also to tell Truku’s
children how to think in new ways with the hallmark of their tribe in order to
fathom their meanings of existing in this era. Eventually, we will be proud to
step on our ancestors’ rainbow bridge.
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In our school, there is a
computer lab with 27 PCs. Although it is
a small computer lab, it contains everything. Each
computer is linked to the Internet. In addition, the LAN in our school is
connected to Hualien County Computer Center; likewise, we have access to TANET. In addition to
the computer lab, there are PCs connected to the internet at all the
administrative departments. In this project, we all use computers in the
computer lab to weave the web pages, and search for related information, and
compile and change the records.
Concerning
the Internet environment at home, among the seven small Truku warriors, only three of them have PCs, connected to the internet,
back home. Therefore, during lunch break, after school, and vacations the computer
lab is extremely important to us.
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The
problems we encountered and solved
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Overcoming
Computer Problems
All
of us did not learn how to weave web pages, not to mention engaging in project
research. From the first day, our teachers told us it would be a difficult task
and we needed to prepare for it psychologically! Fortunately, we had learned something
useful from our teachers; it helped us overcome the procedures in conducting
the research, building up an e-mail account, logging onto the Internet,
searching for information, downloading necessary materials, weaving the web
pages (the most difficult part of it), and processing the artworks.
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Overcoming
the problem of insufficient information sources:
We, the Seven Little Truku Warriors, all live in
the tribes in Hong Ye Village. From the mouths
of the older generation, we can obtain some important information. From our school
library, community development association, web
search, and the Ethnic Studies materials from neighboring schools we are able
to collect related pictures and information.
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In this project, there are 7 students from Grade 5. All of us
participated in a project for the first time. Likewise, the teachers pay much
attention to our learning conditions. Fortunately, the elder brothers and
sisters from Persian Cat Society, National Hualien Teachers College gave
us much guidance. They gave us one-to-one guidance, teaching us how to use
e-mail, ICQ, weave web pages, and interview. Each of us did well in learning
these important skills.
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Community
Development Association (Granny
Li)
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Shan-ren
Woodcarving Workshop
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It is impossible
for us to make up something out of nothing. As the old sayings goes, “The
seekers always leave their traces behind.” “We leave
our footprints with our steps.” We have been working with Mr. Lu, Mr. Yu
and Mr. Fan, the Department Head, on this competition enthusiastically. We
discovered that our teachers worried about the contest more than we do. It
makes us realize that “There is no free lunch.” In
addition, there will be no gain without any pain.
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Team
spirit and division of labor allow us to perform smoothly in each of the activity. On the team, each
of us is important because if any one of us does not perform well, it will affect
the team’s performance.
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From
preparing this project presentation, we have learned
many computer skills. In addition, we learned to use many kinds of digital equipment, such as digital camera, DV,
recording pen, etc.
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