Taiwan Indigenous News
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Female head of the national park system seeks to improve parks
... She said she could sense the wisdom of the mountain forests as passed down throughout the ages by Taiwan's indigenous peoples. The ...
Hsieh reveals moves to help indigenous students
... crystal display television to the students at an elementary school in Taitung County and announced more measures to help Taiwan's indigenous children secure ...
Tribe wants official recognition
... "Taiwan's indigenous tribes are all unique minorities in this country, but we are all the original residents of the island. Every ...
目前邵族人的生活範圍自清朝開始逐漸縮減，最後退居德化社以及水里鄉大平林兩個地方，使得原本擁有廣大居住區域的邵族人，變成只剩一小塊德化社的居住地。
「到得人家盡處，依然水接天涯」，這句詞可為德化社最好的寫照。日月潭景緻幽美，昔日邵族人繞嶼以居，湖光山色，艋甲往來，杵音歌聲，繞揚在雲水飛動裏，乃有別一洞天的稱譽。
「德化社」原稱「卜吉社」或「化番社」，今為「日月村」。今日邵族人仍然臨潭聚住。
遠古時代，天上只有巨大的一個太陽，沒有月亮，大太陽曬死了萬物，一個邵族英雄就用弓箭，在農曆三月十一日這一天，把太陽射成兩半，太陽變小了，成為今天的樣子，另一半較小，變成了月亮，從此之後太陽變得比較暖和，而且夜晚時也誕生一個月亮，照亮了令人懼怕的黑夜。因此邵族人開始祭拜日神和月神」。