The history of the Atayal tribe is legendary, is the Atayal tribe one of the 56 ethnic groups?

According to the classification of our 56 ethnic groups, the Gaoshan people are the collective name of all ethnic groups in the Austronesian language family in Taiwan. The Atayal group belongs to a branch of the Austronesian language family.

The term "Gaoshan people" was officially created after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, when the Kuomintang-Kuomintang-Party formally governed Taiwan and renamed the "Gaosha people" as "Gaoshan people". However, out of respect for the Austronesian language family, the official name was changed to Taiwan-Bay aborigines after 1994.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the mainland continued to use the term "Gaoshan people" when identifying and identifying ethnic groups, and identified them as one of its 56 ethnic minorities. It is worth noting that the name "Gaoshan tribe" is a political-political general term from the perspective of Han nationality, which lacks anthropological basis. Such statements are considered to have racist and colonial overtones in Taiwan.

Here in the mainland, the indigenous ethnic minorities of Taiwan are all called the Gaoshan people, so according to this division, they should also be the Gaoshan people. Taiwan is more finely divided. There are no 56 ethnic groups, so they are classified as the Gaoshan tribe.

Aboriginal "legislator" and actor Gao Jin Sumei.

Yan Chengxu has 1 2 Atayal ancestry, and his mother is Atayal people.

Zhou Yumin has 1 4 Atayal ancestry, and his mother has half Atayal ancestry.

The temperament of the black girl is Xiaoxun (Huang Yuyi) is an Atayal people.

Taiwanese idol drama diva Zeng Zhiqiao's father is from the Atayal ethnic group.

Xu Ruoxuan, whose real name is Xu Shujuan, is the second daughter of the family, with Taiwanese aboriginal (mother is Atayal) ancestry.

The actor "Gao Tianqi" who played the role of "happy" in the MVP lover is a Taiwanese Atayal aborigine.

Taiwanese singer Wen Lan also has Atayal ancestry.

Taiwanese singer, second place in the second session of "Super Avenue of Fame", Liang Wenyin, known as the "Princess of Balem", also has 1 2 Atayal ancestry.

Taiwanese singer Xia Yutong has Atayal ancestry.

Shen Jianhong, a member of the AK group, is called Aunt Xu Ruoxuan, and has Atayal ancestry.

Zhang Xinjie, Taiwanese singer, the fourth runner-up of the Super Avenue of Stars, one of the top 8 in the 2014 Voice of China Wang Feng Dream Class, and a member of the Atayal ethnic group.

Singer Qianbaihui, with songs such as "When I Miss You" and "Walking Through the Coffee House", quickly became a smash hit star in the pop music scene.

The social organization of the Atayal tribe is usually composed of about 10 households gathered to form a tribal of the same lineage; Its system is based on the nuclear family, and adopts monogamy (women live with their husbands); Name a separate clan group within the same clan as ga ga, and elect the most prestigious clan leader among the clans as its leader. The members of the ga ga, all male, are a religious agricultural priesthood that is distributed for common sacrifices, hunting, and sacrifices; Its religious beliefs are based on this, and a supernatural belief in the worship of ancestral spirits is formed.

Among the aborigines of Taiwan, the ethnic groups that have tattoos on their faces (anthropologists call them "black faces" or "tattooed faces") are the Atayal and Saixia peoples, of which the Atayal people are the most common. It is said that "black noodles" have four meanings:

1).the effect of exorcising evil spirits;

2).beautiful and elegant effect;

3).identification of genealogies;

4).A symbol of glory.

For men, the face is a sign of adulthood and a symbol of bravery. For women, it is a sign of being good at weaving, the Atayal people are famous for their delicate weaving. In fact, in addition to being beautiful and avoiding evil, representing the good weaving of women and the courage of men, the black face is also a symbol of the Atayal people's recognition of their ancestors after their death.

Traditionally, Atayal women are in ten.

When he was three or four years old, he began to learn the skills of weaving from his mother, and he also began to prepare clothes for himself when he got married. This is similar to the customs of many ethnic minorities in southern China. When the girl's weaving skills are perfected, it is time to get a tattoo on the face.

However, the custom of black noodles has been gradually banned during the Japanese invasion of Taiwan, and the Atayal people who still retain black noodles are all.

People over the age of seventy or eighty.

Historically, due to the fierce and warlike tenacity of the Atayal people, during the Japanese invasion of Taiwan, fierce anti-Japanese struggles broke out many times, among which the Youwushe incident was the most violent. Because of this, the traditional rituals and culture of the Atayal people have been destroyed and banned by the Japanese, and they have also been strongly transformed by Japan's "Imperial Movement". After the Kuomintang took over Taiwan, the Atayal people were greatly influenced by foreign cultures and became one of the ethnic groups with the most serious loss of customs among Taiwan's aborigines.