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Fishing sacrifice of Gaoshan people: pray for a good harvest of fishing and hunting

as the saying goes: rely on mountains and water. For the Gaoshan people in Taiwan, in addition to the traditional planting agriculture, there are related aquaculture. In the eyes of Gaoshan people, water is also their food and clothing parents. Among their traditional festivals, there is also a traditional national festival related to water. What kind of traditional festival is this traditional national festival related to water? Let's look at the fishing sacrifice in the eyes of Gaoshan people.

Fishing sacrifice in the eyes of Gaoshan people

Fishing Festival is a sacrificial festival among the alpine and AMI people in Taiwan Province. It is held on May of the lunar calendar every year.

When the Gaoshan people had a fishing festival, the dry rice had been harvested and entered the fishing season.

There is a legend among the Amis of the Gaoshan people: in ancient times, there was a god named abdujule who asked them to hold a fish sacrifice after the harvest of dry rice every year in order to make the Amis harvest.

Before the sacrifice, the newly graduated (adult) teenagers in each village should gather to build a hut next to the brook. On the festival day, the young and elders successively came to the hut for a simple sacrifice ceremony, then went to the sea to fish, and the fish they caught were cooked on the spot. The fish cooking method is very strange. First open the fish and wash it, then put it in a betel nut skin, add water, put the red stones in, and the water will boil. After putting stones several times, the fish is cooked. After the fish is cooked, they should be eaten in the order of elders and juveniles. After eating, he returned to the village to hold a sacrificial ceremony again, in order to bless the fishery harvest by the gods.

From these traditional festivals of Gaoshan people, it can be seen that various festivals related to sacrifice of Gaoshan people actually show that Gaoshan people are in great awe of nature, and all sacrifices want to thank nature for its own well-being. This article is read and pushed by sihai.com. For more information about ethnic minority traditional festivals, please pay attention to sihai.com's collection of Chinese traditional festivals!