Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Exhibition on the Yami, an aboriginal group from Taiwan

yuanzhumin · 14th February 2010, 10:49 AM

'there is a gandpa from the mainland but no grandma from the mainland'.

-Yes, Kukulza, the first one of your Han or Hakka ancestors coming from mainland China was probably a male, for the good reason that the Qing emperor had forbidden for a long time the immigration of women or whole families (but don't forget that the first ones coming also from Mainland to taiwan where the Austronesian themselves !) In Taiwan, these first male Han or hakka migrants got married to women from the Pingpu aborigines (Pingpu meaning plains, by opposition to the mountains austronesians), ethnic groups that have been living there for thousand of years, may be ten thousands of years. There were at that time, 3 centuries ago, many plains austronesian tribes that have mostly disappeared today after being sinicised. The good reason for their sinicisation is that the first Han or hakka males imposed their Confucean/chinese/male dominant culture to their newly wed austronesian wives, and it went on like this through the family tree till today. These austronesian roots have often been forgotten in the mind of most of the Taiwanese today and most of them disregard the austronesian/aborigines/original inhabitants people of the island. But if the memory has failed, the blood is speaking for the Taiwanese : today, 80% of the island population whose family was in the island before 1949 (arrival year of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek and his armies) have austronesian blood at a diverse degree. Ah, one important thing that helped a lot in the integration of these first Han/Hakka males in their new land is that, when they arrived a couple of centuries ago, the already there Pingpu tribes had a mostly matriarchal family structure. So when they married a woman from this tribes, they inherited the power and the land, and that's a reason why this integration was quite easy for them. The story was completely different with the mountains aborigines that mostly refused the assimilation and whose territorties in the 2/3 central part of the island was still vastly unexplored at the end of the 19th century.
-So Kukulza, what about this paper on the fighting weapons of the Yami, did you find it ? If you do, don't forget to post it wholly on the forum as the link could disappear once more. I wish you, Kukulza, a Happy Chinese new year fron Taichung, taiwan, where I am for few more days.
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14th February 2010, 10:49 AM	#5
yuanzhumin Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ex-Taipei, Taiwan, now in Shanghai, China Posts: 180	'there is a gandpa from the mainland but no grandma from the mainland'. -Yes, Kukulza, the first one of your Han or Hakka ancestors coming from mainland China was probably a male, for the good reason that the Qing emperor had forbidden for a long time the immigration of women or whole families (but don't forget that the first ones coming also from Mainland to taiwan where the Austronesian themselves !) In Taiwan, these first male Han or hakka migrants got married to women from the Pingpu aborigines (Pingpu meaning plains, by opposition to the mountains austronesians), ethnic groups that have been living there for thousand of years, may be ten thousands of years. There were at that time, 3 centuries ago, many plains austronesian tribes that have mostly disappeared today after being sinicised. The good reason for their sinicisation is that the first Han or hakka males imposed their Confucean/chinese/male dominant culture to their newly wed austronesian wives, and it went on like this through the family tree till today. These austronesian roots have often been forgotten in the mind of most of the Taiwanese today and most of them disregard the austronesian/aborigines/original inhabitants people of the island. But if the memory has failed, the blood is speaking for the Taiwanese : today, 80% of the island population whose family was in the island before 1949 (arrival year of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek and his armies) have austronesian blood at a diverse degree. Ah, one important thing that helped a lot in the integration of these first Han/Hakka males in their new land is that, when they arrived a couple of centuries ago, the already there Pingpu tribes had a mostly matriarchal family structure. So when they married a woman from this tribes, they inherited the power and the land, and that's a reason why this integration was quite easy for them. The story was completely different with the mountains aborigines that mostly refused the assimilation and whose territorties in the 2/3 central part of the island was still vastly unexplored at the end of the 19th century. -So Kukulza, what about this paper on the fighting weapons of the Yami, did you find it ? If you do, don't forget to post it wholly on the forum as the link could disappear once more. I wish you, Kukulza, a Happy Chinese new year fron Taichung, taiwan, where I am for few more days. Ah one more