Tayal

The Taman River Police Post is located on the mountain opposite the southern side of the Dahan Bridge parking lot in Fuxing District of Taoyuan City. When the construction of the Northern Cross-island Highway began in 1963, many railway bridges that were built during the Japanese occupation were demolished and reconstructed because most of the routes overlapped with the Jiaobanshan Sanxing Historic Trail. The Taman River Suspension Bridge, that was next to Taman River Police Post, was also rebuilt into the Dahan Bridge, which overlooks the narrow valley of Taman River and the Baling area.

Today, in the woods on the mountain opposite the parking lot, the remains of the stacked stones from Taman River Police Post can still be found. 

The Deji Reservoir is located on the upper reaches of Dajia River in Heping District, Taichung City, with steep slopes and many passes. At the end of the Japanese occupation, the Governor-General in Taiwan planned the development of the Dajia River. The plan was to build a weir in the upper reaches of Dajia River to store water for generating electricity, agricultural irrigation and industrial water use. However, the plan was interrupted due to the defeat of Japan. In the post-war period, the Nationalist Government followed the plan of the Governor-General, and the power development plan was still based in Dajian, with six power plants including Dajian, Qingshan, Guguan, Tianlun, Maan, and Shigang. In 1973, Deji Dam started to store water, forming a big lake in the shape of a goose egg. In the following year, the plant officially generated electricity.

Shayun’s Bell Tower is located in Liuxingshe in Nanao Township, Yilan County. The Atayal traditional name for the place is Lyoxing, which means bird’s nest fern that grew there. Due to the geographical location, it restricted the only passage to the Lanyang Plains from the Klesan mountainous area.  It is also the main pass to the east coast. Since the Qing Dynasty, it has always been the country’s most important battlefield. In fact, in the middle of the Japanese rule, the Government-General in Taiwan vigorously promoted the emperor’s movement and began to plan and operate the story of Shayun’s Bell. The Liuxingshe was the origin of the story, and the ruins of the bell stand can still be seen today.

The Maobian Police Post is located in the saddle of Mouhen in Nan'ao Township, Yilan County. It was built in 1919 for the year when the Paihau Historic Trail was also excavated. There is also a Tongshan branch route that reaches Hanxi Village in the north and connects to the main route near Leyoxenshe. The main route is about 87.2 km in length and the branch route is about 44.2 km, both pass through the traditional territories of the Atayal tribe of the Nan’ao group.

During the Japanese occupation, Taiwan’s Governor-General used the Piahau Historic Trail as the path for migrating the Atayal people, forcing them to move out of their village. In the early post-war period, the National Government also forced the tribes to move to the plains.

The entrance of Futaishan Guard Road is located in the Heliu River Basin in Nan’ao Township, Yilan County. To get there, walk north from Nanzi Police Post towards Wutashe, passing the three-way intersection in front of Nan'ao Nanxi, and then climb up the ridgeline in the south-west direction. After boarding the ridgeline, you will arrive at a small platform, which is the entrance of the Futaishan Guard Road, and the Atayal named it Biuho. This section of the trail passes through the south side of the Futaishan and connects with Gegezi Guard Road. Where they intersect was the former site of the Heliu Police Post.

Today, the Atayal people still use this path especially when they planted shiitake mushrooms in the 1970s.

Tongshan Police Post is located in the south-west of Tongshan in Nan'ao Township, Yilan County. It sits at an altitude of about 1,620 meters. In fact, the Piahau Historic Trail, which runs through Nan’ao Township and Datong Township in Yilan County, was built in 1919. There is also a Tongshan branch route that reaches Hanxi Village in the north and connects to the main route near Leyoxenshe. The main route is about 87.2 km in length and the branch route is about 44.2 km, both pass through the traditional territories of the Atayal tribe of the Nan’ao group.

During the Japanese occupation, Taiwan’s Governor-General used the Piahau Historic Trail as the path for migrating the Atayal people, forcing them to move out of their village. In the early post-war period, the National Government also forced the tribes to move to the plains.

Doras hunting hut is located on the north side of the ridge line between Yax Bula Saddle and Gegezishe in Nan'ao Township, Yilan County. It has an open terrain and a good view due to the high elevation. It is owned by the elderly Doras of Jingyang Village. He was the last elder of the Kubabuoshe to be moved down from the mountain. However, according to the field survey record, this place was rebuilt  during the Japanese occupation by the Government-General in Taiwan. It can be identified from the stone stacked at the bottom of the working hut that it was not the traditional technique of the Atayal people. In addition, according to historian Liao Yingjie's research, this place may be the Gegezi Dispatching Station, and it was once the Gegezi Meteorological Observatory.

200 years ago, the ancestor Gunpai Noekkan  led 9 households of 36 people to settle here at the Hagaparis Hamlet in Nan’ao Township, Yilan County. They traveled from the north of Lishan Mountain to Moyao in Heping River Basin cutting through Nanhu Dashan and settled in Hagawan-she. The son of Noekkan carried on, leading the tribe to migrate again to build a community in Hagaparis. According to the records of the Japanese anthropologist, Mori Chosuke, the Hagaparis community had only 17 households. Due to its remote location, the Governor-General in Taiwan did not open a guard road here but had once stationed a police post. In the early days of the Japanese occupation, the people of Hagaparis Hamlet moved to Hanxi Village around 1915, and then moved to Nan'ao Plain in 1964 to live with the people of Wuta Village.

Piahaushe in Nan’ao Township, Yilan County, is located on the river terrace on the right bank of the upper reaches of Hepingbei Creek. It is located at the confluence of the Cikaogan River. It sits at an altitude of about 1,000 meters. The traditional Atayal name for it is Biho, which is based on the name of the tribal leader, Biho Naui. During the Japanese occupation, it was named Baiyaushe, which stem from the Japanese pronunciation of “Piyahau”. In the post-war period, it was transliterated into Piahau. After the tribes migrated to the plains of Nan’ao, the place was commonly called Bihou.

Jinyangshe is located on a south-sloping hillside on the left bank of Hepingbei Creek in Nan’ao Township, Yilan County.  It is about 1,200 meters above sea level. Due to the terrain, it is divided into the Knyan Hamlet on the west side of the valley and the Yuwu Hamlet on the east. The Atayal traditional name of the place is Nekenyan, which means forgotten because it is said that in the past, the tribesmen forgot their things there. Regarding the reclamation history of the Jingyangshe, the ancestor Takun Bato led the tribe from Pinsəbəkan through the Nanhu Dashan and the Biyahaoshe to settle in Kngungn in the 1790s. Later, his son Ponya led the tribe to move to Jingyangshe.

During the Japanese occupation, the Jingyangshe, Biyahoshe, and Kubaboshe were regarded as big communes due to their large population and power.