Hrung

The Atayal people of Hrung originated from the Ruiyan hamlet (qalangMsthbwan) in Renai Township, Nantou County, and then migrated to the Tebirun River (gong Tebirun) and the Baigou Mountain, and established qalangPesyux hamlet, where Dajia River meets the tributary Piyasan River (gong Piyasan). Later, the people moved to Qingshan (ulayrim). According to the elder’s memory, in the 1920s, when he lived in the qalangPesyux hamlet, he was invaded by the Wushe Seediq tribe and moved to qalangPyasan. In the 1930s, he moved to qalangHrung. During the Japanese occupation period, the education center taught the people to wrestle and sumo. In the annual sumo competition, the Hrung and Songhe hamlets once had players that got five and three consecutive victories and won the overall championship for the team. In the history of local self-government after the war, the number of households in Hrung and Songhe hamlets was small, only 50 or 60 households.