達魯馬克舊部落 卡巴里瓦(kabaliwa) - Taitung County

The Rukai people are distributed in the mountainous areas on both sides of the southern section of the Central Mountain Range. The Liaoxi River Basin in the north and south, and the upper reaches of the Danan Desert in Taitung County. In terms of administrative divisions, they are roughly distributed in today's Wutai Township in Pingtung County, Maolin Township in Kaohsiung County, and Beinan Township in Taitung County (Wen Zhenhua, 1991). According to Chuanjun (2001) in the "History of Taitung County Yi Paiwan and Rukai", the Rukai people living in Dongxing Village, Beinan Township, Taitung County identified themselves as "East Rukai J It is also called the Darumak tribe, which is different from the "Sirukai" in Pingtung County. According to the dictation of the local leader, Fu said that the ancestors of the Zhongdarumak tribe came ashore from the coast of Taitung, then walked up the mountain and settled on Mount Kenguier in the southern section of the Central Mountain Range. After some time, under the leadership of the tribe’s neck sleeves, some people led by a psychic clouded leopard and an eagle in the air. So the tribe established a tribe in Jiuhaotu. After that, a part of the ethnic group moved to Dananxi in Taitung County and settled in the Kabaliua area. Kabaliua (kabaliua) means "place of gathering", which means "the real layer lies in the east of one's own" (Xu Muzhu, 1992). From then on, the Darumak tribes’ admiration and respect for eagles and clouded leopards have become more like their relatives.” Therefore, the ancestor of the eagles and clouded leopards, Fu said, it has more to determine the future customs and education of the Darumak tribe. Source: Chen Guanzhou, Department of Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University