Rukai 魯凱族

History

There are three kinds of myths about the creation of human beings by the Rukai tribe. One is inherited by the Eastern Rukai group. According to legend, after the ancestors landed on the east coast from overseas, they settled on the east and west sides of the Central Mountain Range; the other spread in Xilu. Among the western Rukai group, the ancestors are believed to be created by the sun, clay pots or stones; there is also the oral history of the three villages in Maolin, Kaohsiung, that the ancestors originated in the Daguihu and Xiaoguihu areas of Maolin. The Rukai tribes are distributed on both sides of the southern section of the Central Mountain Range and belong to three administrative regions: Kaohsiung County, Pingtung County and Taitung County.

Clothes

• Lily.
• Black & Red & Yellow & Green.
• Hundred-pace Snake, sun, human head, clay pot pattern. (Chief)
  
• Humanoid pattern, snake pattern. (Noble)

Ritual (in Rukai language)

• Tsatsapipianu. (Millet Harvest Festival)

Millet is the most important crop in the production activities of the Rukai people. The annual festivals are centered on millet, and the harvest festival is the most important. The harvest festival is a ceremony performed by the Rukai tribe after the harvest of millet in order to thank the gods for the harvest. In the ceremony, the Rukai people will prepare millet cakes, millet rice, and millet wine to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors; in addition, the tribesmen will also symbolically pay tribute to the leaders with the crops. The meaning of tax and sharing.

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