Jade Chen: An Atayal tribe-Cinsb

My department is holding a summer camp for high school students to participate. The purpose of holding a camp is to let high school student to know more about our department. As a member of designing courses during the camp, we invite professors in our department to give lectures. However, besides professors from our department, we also want to have a field trip to a Atayal indigenous tribe in Hsinchu county. We went to the tribe for a visit last weekend, we met up with pastor Ataw from the church, and he showed us around the tribe. The scenery up in the mountain is SO beautiful and the weather is perfect! Pastor Ataw also told us a lot of Atayal culture and traditions. One the place he took us to was the entrance to the cypress forest, the Atayal people set up a rule restricting people going in at night. Because some people went into the forest illegally to chop down the precious cypress trees. Atayal people were very angry about people illegally chop down the trees, they were not only hurting the environment but also breaking the laws. The tribe are calling for people's attention to respect the tribe and the environment we are living in. I learned a lot from the trip to Cinsb. We should learn from Taiwan's indigenous people, they have a great connection to the land and they love the land they live in. Taiwan is our home, and home to different ethnos in Taiwan, we should all love the land we live in.