18 Facts About Taivoan people

Taivoan originally settled around hill and basin areas in Tainan, especially in the Yujing Basin, which area the Taivoan called Tamani, later transliterated into Japanese and later borrowed as Chinese Yujing.

The Taivoan people historically called themselves Taivoan people, Taibowan, Taiburan or Shisha as endonyms.

Many scholars propose that the name of the island Taiwan actually came from the indigenous people's name, as the pronunciation of Taivoan is similar to Tayovan, the people that the Dutch met around the coast of Anping or the bay around Anping, which later became the name Taiwan.

Twenty-two years later, the Taivoan people struggled to carry on another rebellion; since most of the indigenous people were from Xiaolin, the resistance taking place in 1937 was named the Xiaolin Incident.

Taivoan people used to be classified as a subgroup of Siraya; however, Raleigh Farrell regards Taivoan as an indigenous ethnic group according to 17th century documents, and believes there were at least five indigenous peoples in the south-western plain of Taiwan at that time:.

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The indigenous Taivoan people were later driven by Siraya again and migrate to Danei, setting up the community Nounamou.

Siraya eventually invaded Danei and forced Taivoan people to move to Yujing, where Taivoan people later founded four of their most important communities, Tevorangh, Sia-urie, Vogavon, and Kapoa.

Concept that Taivoan people spoke the Siraya language has been rejected by many linguists, based on documentary and linguistic evidence.

The Highest Ancestral Spirits used to be called Anag in Taivoan people but are now commonly called Thai-Tsoo or Huan-Thai-Tsoo in Taiwanese.

Also, some Taivoan people elders refer to the Highest Ancestral Spirits as Kuba-Tsoo, literally "the Grandmothers in Kuba", as Kuba is the Taivoan people word for the Shrine.

Decades ago, the Women's Night used to start from 8:00 pm or 9:00 pm on the full-moon of the first lunar month in Xiaolin, when all the local Taivoan people women dressed beautifully, played games, and sang and danced in the streets.

Notable handicraft of Taivoan people is bamboo basket ; it is used not only for fishing but for religious purpose in Taivoan people culture.

Taivoan people consider kogitanta agisen to be the place where the Highest Ancestral Spirits rest and the most sacred space inside the Shrine.

Thistle flowers in Taivoan people embroidery are the most unique, not seen in any other Taiwanese indigenous arts.

Taboro, or the so-called "the Song in the Shrine" among the Taivoan people, is a ceremonial song that can be sung only in the Shrine at the Night Ceremony; singing on any other occasion is strictly prohibited.

Kalawahe, or the so-called "Out-of-the-Shrine Song" among the Taivoan people, is a ceremonial song that is normally sung when the indigenous people are walking out of the Shrine after worshiping to the Highest Ancestral Spirits at the Night Ceremony.

Taivoan people believe in the supernatural power of mimaw-pilinlin or Hiang-water, the water blessed by the Highest Ancestral Spirits.

Sometimes the surnames give a clue for an outsider; for example, one can guess a member from the Bang family in Xiaolin should have Siraya ancestry instead of Taivoan people, as Bang is a dominant Chinese surname in many Siraya communities, where the surnames like Pan and Liu that are common among Taivoan people communities can hardly be found.