Legendary Stories

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Today, we went to class and answered some questions other than computer.
Big Sister Ai-lun told us about legendary stories, and jokes we had a good time there¡K
The following are some legendary stories from Big Sister Ai-lun: ¡@
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    Roads of Mountain-Climbing

Contents:
(1) When some single youths planned to work in the mountainous area, they often appointed a specific site for gathering. One would put down a bundle of grass over the ground if he/she didn't make sure if the other went home. It indicates one would go home if the grass facing the incoming cross road was pressed by a stone. In addition, if a couple of beloved youth desired to test the gender of their baby, they would hold two ends of a Diquat, and torn it towards the middle portion. One diamond sign indicates a male baby, and a straight line indicates a female baby.

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Big Sister Ai-lun is talking to us the legendary stories.

(2) In former times, the tribal people hunted for wild boars in the mountain. Whenever a wild boar was captured, they would shout loudly towards their community, three times indicating an older quarry, one time indicating a younger one. Some tribal people in the community would hurry up to a Wild Boar Station, of which the first one would obtain a piece of wild boar meat. ¡@



Everybody is raising hands to answer the questions of Big Sister Ai-lun.

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   malikoda(Harvest Festival Ritual)of Laiyi Danlin Village , Betrothal Gift

Contents: the single male youths will chop some firewood during malikoda(Harvest Festival Ritual), and take to the families of beloved girls. The betrothal gifts generally comprise Formosan Ash, negundo chastetree, subcostate crape myrtle and even ¡§giantreed¡¨, which express the highest degree of love. The single tribal girls usually compare to each other about the amount of betrothal gifts.

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editor¡G Mei-ru Chang¡BDian-chiang Gu¡BHui-rong Tian