Bayao Bay is located on the east coast of the Hengchun Peninsula in Manzhou Township, Pingtung County. It is a historical site for the Mudan incident that happened during the Qing period. At that time, the ship Yamahara voyaged from Miyako Island of Ryukyu to Naha to pay the annual tribute. On its return it got blown off course, hit by a typhoon and shipwrecked off the southeastern coast near Bayao Bay. After the sailors on board landed, they were killed by the Paiwan people of the neighboring Gaoshifuoshe. Ryukyu Kingdom was at that time in the sphere of Japanese influence and therefore, Japan used this incident as an excuse to attack Taiwan and the indigenous people in 1874, and eventually annex Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879. This Mudan incident was a wake-up call for the Qing government and they began to actively manage the Hengchun Peninsula, and the Taiwanese policy also changed drastically.
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