Tao Film Questions

(1) Please indicate the importance of the ocean to Tao. It’s how they know for weather changes, it supplies for food, and they can exercise in it.
(2) It takes a lot of time for Tao people to build a boat. How do Tao people make a boat? Do you think it is worthy or it wastes time? Why? They have wood and use knife to carve the shapes on the boat. It’s worthy because that’s why their boats have those symbols that look pretty and meaningful for the Tao people.
(3) Explain the boat launching ceremony. Cover the new boat with those leaves, the group then toss the boat up with the boat chief inside and put it in the sea.
(4) Explain the flying fish calling ceremony. They put blood in the sea and let it wash away to attract those flying fish and to catch them to have a big harvest for food.
(5) How do Tao people live in harmony with the natural environment? They treat the environment well and without make their god mad.
(6) The houses Tao people build are so special. Please compare their houses to those houses in your own country. Their houses are made of wood but our houses are made out of bricks and yea. Our house can have special designs because you can change how the bricks stack together but for their house you can’t change how the woo is grew instead of carving them. Their house have symbols in them.
(7) Tao people view eating a seasnake is a taboo because it lowers social status. In your own culture, do you have any eating taboos? Do you believe in it? Why? I don’t think so.
(8) So far only one big handmade boat is kept in Tao tribe because of modernization. Thus, some Tao people try to preserve their art culture. Please describe a vanishing art culture in your country that you would like to preserve. I don’t want to preserve any art stuff because I don’t really like art.