Laiyi

Láiyì (來義), known as Tjalja’avus in Paiwan, is a mountainous Indigenous township in eastern Pingtung and the most populous Paiwan community in Taiwan. The township takes its name from the former village of Tjalja’avus (加拉阿夫斯), which was forcibly relocated in the early 1950s. The heritage-listed Old Vungalid (舊望嘉遺址), a village founded around 1540, preserves some of the most significant Paiwan cultural sites in the country, including a skull altar and a ritual house with a carved human-face relief.