The Dongshi Forest District Management Office of the Forestry Bureau entrusted experts to compile "Living Plants in the Guguan Mountains—Handbook of Traditional Life and Ethnic Plants of Original Tribes in Daguguan Area" together with tribal elders.

(Photo by reporter Ou Sumei)

[Reporter Ou Sumei/Taichung Report] The Dongshi Forest District Management Office of the Forestry Bureau entrusted experts to compile the "Living Plants in Guguanli Mountains - Handbook of Traditional Life and Ethnic Plants of Original Tribes in the Daguguan Area" together with tribal elders. The Forest Recreation Area held a new book launch event, inviting the author of the handbook, interviewed tribal elders and partners to participate, and also attracted many people who are interested in traditional plants to participate in the grand event.

In the future, the manual will be available for purchase at the Visitor Center of Baxianshan National Forest Recreation Area, Wunan Cultural Square, and National Bookstore.

The Daguguan area along the Dajia River Basin in Heping District, Taichung City is the living area of ​​the original Atayal tribe. The natural environment has bred a variety of plants and integrated them into the life of the tribe. They have developed unique traditional plant cooking, weaving, dyeing, and construction techniques. wait.

In order to preserve the relevant knowledge and skills, the Dongshi Forestry Management Office entrusted the China Natural Resources Conservation Association, together with the Atayal tribes such as Nanshi, Lileng, Songhe, Haruntai and Skeba along the Dajia River Basin, to visit and collect information , which took 2 years to compile and complete the "Lishan Living Plants in Guguan-Handbook of Traditional Life and Ethnic Plants of Origin Tribes in Daguguan Area".

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Zhang Hongyi, director of the Dongshi Forest District Management Office, donated books to the community partners interviewed in the handbook.

(Provided by Dongshi Forest Management Office)

The book introduces the use of plants by the aborigines for spices, dyes, weaving, construction, crafts, etc. Through this book, you can learn about the techniques of using plants in life. It can be eaten directly with wild vegetables, bamboo shoots, spices, and soy sauce; "Ma Gao" can be eaten directly as a snack, or the fruit can be pickled and preserved and then added to soup or vegetables to enhance the flavor; Contains nutritional value, etc., and faithfully records the traditional life wisdom of the Atayal aborigines.

At today's presentation, 12 Atayal-style dishes such as "Pig Bean Pork Knuckle" and "Assorted Buckwheat Salad" were prepared, so that everyone can taste the delicious ingredients recorded in the manual.

Dongshi Forest Management Office pointed out that the manual uses vivid text and photos to describe the unique use of Atayal traditional plants in daily life, and invites designers to draw exquisite plant pictures, combined with aesthetic design, so that readers can understand the plant types at a glance.

The compilation process uses the concept of the Satoyama Initiative, and integrates friendly environment cultivation and traditional crop conservation and re-cultivation. There are a total of 30 traditional plant characteristics, planting time, use time and methods, ethnic language names and Atayal impressions, etc., so that readers can better understand the original The beauty of the traditional culture of the living nation.

Zhang Hongyi, director of the Dongshi Forest District Management Office, said that the production, life, ecology and landscape of Lishan almost all exist in the traditional life of the aborigines. In order to actively promote biodiversity conservation and establish partnerships with aboriginal peoples, the Through the publication of this handbook, the Office records and inherits the traditional life of the aborigines and the ecological wisdom of mountains and forests. It also hopes to learn and understand more ways to live in harmony with nature from the traditional ecological wisdom of the aborigines.

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