The Zou culture tribe in Alishan

A scenic spot on Mt. Ali is worth visiting.

The Zou culture tribe in Alishan

Alishan Zou culture tribe is located in the mountain tea garden at No. 127, No. 4, Leye village, Alishan Township, Jiayi County, Taiwan Province, at an altitude of about 1300 meters. It's a cultural park to introduce the Zou people in Alishan. A visit to the bar will help you know the brave Zou people better

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The song "girl of Alishan" is also called "green mountain, blue stream, beautiful girl of Alishan, young girl of Alishan..." The girls and teenagers in Alishan are the portrayal of the Zou aborigines in Alishan.

Youyou, the spiritual symbol of Zou aborigines in siali mountain! The local Zou youth is a cultural tribe created to develop the characteristic industries of indigenous people and create employment opportunities. It is also the best place to experience Alishan culture. If you haven't been to the Zou culture tribe in Alishan, let alone Alishan.

General situation

Located in Leye village, Alishan Township, Jiayi County, Taiwan Province, the Zou culture tribe in Alishan has an altitude of about 1300 meters, overlooking the magnificent scenery of Yushan and rainbow Canyon, the highest peak in Taiwan. Yuyupas, a Zou culture tribe in Alishan Mountain, is located in the beautiful tea garden of Alishan Mountain, which shows the essence of Zou culture. The Zou culture tribe in Alishan is a new highlight of Alishan and the best place to experience the culture and art of Alishan.

Lalauya (Leye) is a tribe of Zou people in Alishan with eternal myth, and youyoubais is the spiritual symbol of the aborigines! Youyou bar is named after the Zou language of the Zou aborigines. It means four seasons of wealth, inner prosperity and a happy, kind, sharing and peaceful heart. The local Zou youth is a cultural tribe created to develop the characteristic industries of indigenous people and create employment opportunities. Create a tribal space combined with cultural and creative industries. It is also the best place to experience Alishan culture.

It receives more than 200000 tourists annually

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Tribal formation

In the "August 8 typhoon" in 2009, the tribal industry was seriously impacted, and various economic activities in the stable development, such as sightseeing, B & B, and special meals, were seriously affected, and the tribal economy was facing atrophy. However, when the light industry in Alishan area was moving down the mountain one by one after the typhoon, "youyouyoubas" was operating in a reverse way Leye tribe, the center of Alishan area, built this nest to realize its dream

As a creative and ideal employment opportunity for the Zou aborigines, and a refined sales platform for local agricultural products, the new tribal park is in line with the government's policy of promoting cross-strait tourism to promote industry and employment, so that the young Aboriginal men and women who join the team can further stimulate their "cultural creativity" potential. The tribe can rebuild such values and become Alishan Zou people are proud. The characteristics of "youyouba Zou culture tribe in siali mountain" lie in "high-quality tribal tourism image", "exquisite cultural tourism" and "experience of local characteristic industry". Combining local enterprises with local cultural characteristic industries, it stimulates a new model of benchmarking tribal development.

founder

The 88 Flood devastated Alishan and destroyed the aboriginal tribes. A large number of Aborigines were forced to move to the foot of the mountain to earn a living. Zheng Yuping, chairman of the Zou cultural tribe and youyoubasi in Alishan, admitted in an exclusive interview with the China news agency that apart from commercial considerations, the reclamation of youyoubasi was largely due to the destruction of its hometown and the forced departure of its people from the land on which their ancestors lived To build a "dream land" to help aborigines realize their dreams.

Zheng Yuping, a native of Yu County, Henan Province, came to Taiwan with his father Zheng Tianyou and Chiang Kai Shek's 206th Youth Division. His mother is an Aboriginal and has the blood of Zou nationality. He was born in "Jingjun new village" of Jiayi County in 1957 and graduated from the 49th military academy. In 2000, he retired from the military academy in guguanliyang special center of Taichung County.

The Chinese mainland and Taiwan's Aboriginal lineage, marry and settle down in Taiwan, have been the special assistant of the general manager of the Taiwan world. Zheng Yuping was once a special assistant to the general manager of the world. After 88 storms, she returned to her hometown and set up a famous cultural tribe of the Zou nationality in Ali Mountain, "to promote the best of you", and to promote and attract the youth of Zou nationality to return home for employment. Chairman of a company limited by shares.

In the popular song "high mountain green", there is a passage "Alishan girls are as beautiful as water, Alishan teenagers are as strong as mountain". In the real world, Alishan is inhabited by old warriors, innocent children, or old grannies with dark faces and traces of time. Beautiful girls and brave warriors run down the mountain to make a living. Typhoon Morakot made this situation worse, and the indigenous people of Mt. Ali could hardly live in their hometown for a long time.

Zheng Yuping saw his people living in exile. He used the interpersonal network and flexible business mind of jianhushan world (special assistant to the general manager), an amusement park that once served "Taiwan's first", just as he had just left his old owner's home and intended to create his own ideas, so why not invest in Alishan, Jiayi. Within a short period of time, he found friends to invest and lobby small and medium-sized business owners. He also took out his life savings. The investment target was very unpopular. He opened up aboriginal tribes, recreated the life and history of the Zou people through "youyouyoubasi", and recreated the cultural spirit of the Zou people with creativity. The prototype of "building a nest to realize a dream" project began to turn from a dream to an ideal dream land.

Zheng Yuping joked that fortunately, the big and small bosses and friends did not regard him as a "fraud group", and soon successfully raised 50 million yuan, and then launched a large-scale development and land preparation project. They chose to develop the "Zou Culture Park" on the flat hillside of Leye village. On the one hand, it provides employment opportunities for young men and women of the Zou nationality as a platform for cultural marketing of the tribal industry. On the other hand, it promotes the Zou Cultural Park to "high-quality tribal tourism image", "exquisite cultural tourism" and "experience of local characteristic industries", presenting the cultural and creative industries of the indigenous people.

He admitted that he often heard many mainland tourists joking that "I will regret not coming to Alishan in my whole life, and I will regret my whole life when I come to Alishan". His comments on Alishan made him full of emotion, hoping to change the impression of tourists on Alishan, make Alishan return to its original magnificence and simplicity, and devote himself to the rebirth and transformation of Zou culture.

Introduction to tribes

Youyou bar has more than 80 employees, and 90% of them are Zou Aboriginal youth. "To hire aborigines is to give them fishing rods and teach them to fish." only in this way can we really solve the employment problem of Aboriginal friends. After they have a stable source of income, they can settle down in the place where their ancestors worked hard, and they don't have to leave their hometown. "Youyoubasi" is the Zou language yuyupas (Japanese okane takusan), which means very rich and healthy. This land is very rich.

Zheng Yuping said that Ali Mountain is a must for overseas tourists, and also a favorite scenic spot for Chinese mainland tourists. Alishan sacred wood, small train, sunrise and cloud sea are love for Ali Mountain girl, aboriginal culture, natural beauty and ethnic minorities. To test the aboriginal culture of Mt. Ali. He hoped that through the "youyou bar", he would let tourists know more about the history, culture, customs and even living habits of the Zou people.

In less than three months since its opening at the end of June 2009, "youyoubasi" has attracted the attention of Japanese companies. When group tourists visit Alishan, they join youyouyoubasi. Free travelers from Hong Kong and Singapore also know that there is a Zou Cultural Park through Internet or word of mouth. Zheng Yuping revealed that some high-level mainland leaders also visited youyou bar to see how to plan ethnic cultural parks, how to preserve and present ethnic life, history and cultural characteristics, and most importantly, to see Taiwan and indigenous cultural and creative industries.

In order to make people feel the cultural characteristics of the indigenous people, they must follow the traditions, including the minimum tribal clothing, tribal lifestyle, solemn sacrifice ceremony, and etiquette. Youyou bass is quite particular about this. From the beginning of welcoming guests, Zou Mei maiden and the wizard launched Qifu ceremony at the gate, and then watched Zou cultural relics "Hamo hall" and mauda theater. Zheng Yuping welcomes visitors from mainland China, Hong Kong and other countries to visit Alishan to enjoy the performances, traditional handicrafts, local food and agricultural products of the Zou aborigines at youyoubasi.

Cultural narration

Tsou (cou), also known as the Cao nationality, is a branch of Taiwan aborigines whose traditional language is Zou. It is distributed in Nantou County, Jiayi county and Kaohsiung County. The Zou's social organizations are divided into Hosa, aemana, ongo no emo and emo. In Zou clan's assembly house where there are men, teenagers must enter (overnight) clubs when they are 12 or 3 years old to receive training in history, culture, traditional skills and hunting. At the time of the victory ceremony, Kuba was the center of the activity.

The clubhouse system has disappeared, but women are still forbidden to enter the clubhouse

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