A stone monument erected in 1960 by the Puyuma (卑南族) people of Zhiben to mark their ancestral origin site. According to Puyuma creation myth, five siblings survived a great flood by floating in a wooden mortar and landed at Lufaan (陸發安), near a bamboo grove between Sanhe and Huayuan along the South-Link Highway. The inscription reads “Birthplace of Taiwan’s Mountain People Ancestors”.
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- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
Themes
- Indigenous People of Taiwan (台灣原住民)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.