Zhuhu

Zhuhu is a settlement of the Pingpu ethnic group (other Austronesians in Taiwan), distributed along the Provincial Highway 11. This place was originally the Xiaozhuhu community of the Amis people (also called Zhuhu-she while the Amis call it Taman-she, which means "darkness" and is transliterated as "Danman-she") and the former site of Sabie-she (Amis people called it Mornos-she). The original tribe lived in the "Luliaogou" area on the hillside to the west of the current site. Later, the Amis moved to Dasaobie (now Yongfu) in the north and Nanzhuhu in the south, and the local area was inhabited by the Pingpu peoples. As the bamboo forest around the original site was luxuriant and shaped like a lake, the Han people called it the "Bamboo Lake" (Zhuhu) community. At present, there are only about 20 households in Zhuhu, and the Pingpu peoples account for about half of the population. The rest are Hakkas and Hokkien who immigrated to the nearby hills and mountains during the Japanese occupation, and moved here after World War II.