Creature in Taiwan Video Reflection

1.How do Paiwan people show their respect to the animal they hunted?
They collect the jaw bones of the animals and hang them in their house.
2.Why archery is so important to Bunun people? How did fathers train their children to be an archer?
They hunted for food by archery, and that's important for Bunun people. The fathers trained their children by setting up an ear as the target and teach them to aim and to shoot the ear.
3.Why are bats welcomed by Ancient Chinese culture? But in western societies, why do people regard bats as nuisance?
In Ancient Chinese culture they bring good luck and chase away evil spirits. They are annoying and because they only live at black spots which they think it's not good.
4.This video shows a lot of living extinct animals in Taiwan. Please choose one animal that impressed you the most and describe its habitat and its way to survive in the natural environment?
Pangolin is the one that impressed me the most. They can attack the ants' house even with lots of ants crawling on it. I won't want to touch it when I see lots of ants crawling all over.

Aboriginal Questions

1.Saisiyat people choose their surnames from plants, animals and natural phenomena. In your country, do you think a person's surname has special meaning which can reflect your own culture and why?
I don't think so. I think it's just like each tribe has its own name, and each surname is like a tribe in Chinese culture.

2.Lily is a symbol of RuKai. For Paiwan, a hundred-step viper is significant in their society. In your country, do you have any symbol that represents your country and what does that mean?
I think Dragon might be it. Chinese people think Dragons are holy animals that bring you good luck. Although it's only an imaginary animal but Chinese people still think it's a special symbol.

3.On Beian's traditional weddings, you can see a prospective bride climbing a giant swing. And tribesmen swing her until the swing sails like kites. In your country, do you have any special ceremonies that are held on weddings? Please explain it.
I don't attend weddings a lot so I'm not too sure about this, sorry.

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.

Comparing Japanese and Taiwanese Food

Taiwanese and Japanese food have both hot food and cold food. Because of the climate, these two countries both have four seasons, sometimes hot and sometimes cold, they must have both hot food and cold food. For hot stuff, Taiwan has tea and Japan also has its own kind of tea. For cold stuff, Taiwan has the bubble tea and Japanese has the green tea ice-cream stuff.

Taiwanese cuisine is usually like everyone gathers around a big round table with lots of dishes on the table, and people would share all the dishes. In Japan, it's only sometimes like that but other times it's like each person has his or her own meal in front of him or her instead of sharing each other. I think Taiwanese people and Japanese people have their different own snack and way of making food. Japanese people usually sit on tatami or something like that without shoes but Taiwanese people sit on chairs.

I prefer both Taiwanese and Japanese cuisine because I think both of them are delicious.

Food Video during Taiwanese Study

In the film, there's a bald guy eating weird stuff in Taiwan night market. He ate some goose tongues, head, chicken uterus, and chicken balls. The most incredible thing is that he described the chickens balls as "extremely creamy" and "it's exploding in your mouth". He also ate unlayed chicken eggs and those weird stuff that people can't imagine about. By the way, he didn't only eat the white chicken balls, he ate black chicken balls too. I won't going to eat that even if someone is cooking for me...