Hamlet

The Tianlong Suspension Bridge is located behind the Tianlong Hotel in Haiduan Township, Taitung County. It was built in the valley between Wulu and Lidao on the Wulu-Hari section of the Guanshan Historic Trail, which was built in the middle of the Japanese occupation period.  The mountains on both sides of the bank are steep and the suspension bridge hangs in the sky like a long dragon, hence the name Tianlong Suspension Bridge. 

However, in the early post-war period, the Tianlong Suspension Bridge was impassable due to years of neglect. It was not until the Southern Cross-island Highway was opened that the bridge was restored for the purpose of transporting people and supplies. The original section of the historic trail that leads directly to Lidao was made into the Tianlong Historic Trail, which connects the Tianlong Hotel and the Southern Cross-island Highway. It is also a shortcut from Wulu to Lidao.

The Wulu Fort is located on the hills behind Wulu Elementary School in Haiduan Township, Taitung County. There are two guns that were made in Russia in 1903. They were trophies after the Russo-Japanese War and were transported to Taiwan with the intention to suppress the indigenous peoples. In the middle of the Japanese occupation period, when the Government-General in Taiwan excavated the Xinwu to Wulu section of the Guanshan Historic Trail, a fort was erected here to intimidate the Bunun people. Especially after the Daguanshan Incident in 1932, the Japanese used the strategy of dropping bombs onto uncooperative tribes to suppress the originally fierceful opposing indigenes. In the post-war period, Hu Jinniang, the then mayor of Haiduan Township, retrieved the historic guns that were left abandoned in the warehouse of the Taitung County Police Station and relocated them to the rear of the elementary school.

Wulu Hamlet, located in Haiduan Township, Taitung County, was an important stronghold for migrating east from Nantou at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is regarded as the origin of Bunun’s traditional culture in the Haiduan area. The place was traditionally called Bulbul, which is said to be named after a locally grown plant called vulvul. Others say that the name came from the pulpul sound of the spring water emerging from the foot of the mountain. In the middle of the Japanese occupation, the Governor-General in Taiwan forced the Bunun people near the Wulu Terrace to collectively move here, which formed the present Wulu Hamlet. From the late Japanese occupation to the post-war period, many people in Haiduan Village and Kanding Village came from Wulu.

The Aisaka (Fengban) Anti-Japanese Monument is located between Xinwu and Chulai on the Southern Cross-island Highway, near the former site of Fengban Police Post in Haiduan Township, Taitung County. The monument was erected in memory of the Aisaka incident that occurred in the middle of the Japanese occupation period. The incident was caused by the Bunun people of the Bulakusan and Tokoban group attacking the Aisaka Police Post in 1933 and killing the Chief Inspector and his family members. After that, the Governor-General in Taiwan fired at Burakusan Hamlet, formed a search team to attack from Hualien, Taitung and Kaohsiung, and finally arrested the suspects. However, in order to take into account the overall situation, the Governor-General adopted a peaceful punishment and held an apologetic ceremony to accept the people’s submission. In the post-war period, the Haiduan Township Office built a simple monument to commemorate this anti-Japanese incident.

Mashuhor Police Post is located on the east side of Meishan Hamlet in Taoyuan District, Kaohsiung City. To get there, enter the industrial road next to the Meishan Youth Activity Center, then walk further for about 1 km. The former site of the Meishan Hamlet is located above the current hamlet. The traditional Bunun name is Masuhuaz, which means yellow rotang palm, because the area is rich in yellow rotang palm. In the post-war period in 1961, the National Government forced the tribes to collectively move here. The place was then renamed to Meishan because of the abundance of plum trees.

Today,  the original building of Mashuhor Police Post no longer exists. Only the foundation of the house, the stone wall, the reservoir, the entrance and exit steps remain but are covered by overgrown grass.

Meimu Police Post, in Ren'ai Township of Nantou County, is located below the Lixing Industrial Road and next to the Meimu Camphor Bureau. It has now been converted into a tea factory.

The Lixing Industrial Road was completed in 1968. The road begins from Wushe in the south and ends in Lishan in the north, connecting to the Central Cross-island Highway. The section from Meimu to Cuiluan was originally part of the Pyanan Historic Trail during the Japanese Occupation period.

Today, the hillsides along the Lixing Industrial Road are rich in non-tropical fruits, but the geology of the area where the road passes is fragile. There are often landslides, hence the road conditions are not good.

The old Ruiyan police station, in Ren’ai Township of Nantou County, is located in the northeastern foothills where Beigang River and Kagao River meet.

The Ruiyan Hamlet was formed by the merger of the Mesiduobang community and the Tieli Lao community. Since Japanese rule, it has experienced multiple group migration policies. In the post-war period, the National Government also changed the name of the hamlet and merged. It was until the Jiji earthquake in 1999 that the Ruiyan Hamlet was relocated again in 2011 due to severe stratum damage. The new location of the hamlet is on the right bank of Beigang River, northwest of the original village. However, there are still 32 households that have not moved due to insufficient land.

Baigou Police Post, located in Ren'ai Township of Nantou County, used to stand at the fork of the industrial road leading to Ruiyan hamlet. It is 1,349 meters above sea level.

During the Japanese occupation, the Government-General in Taiwan built the Pyanan Historic Trail in 1918 for the purpose of supply transportation and management of indigenous people. The trail is 120 km in length.

In the post-war period, the trail section from Siyuan Pass to Datong in Yilan was replaced by the Central Cross-island Highway, and the section from Meimu to Cuiluan was later opened as part of the Lixing industrial road.

The Bakuras Hamlet in Dili Village, Xinyi Township, Nantou County, is about 550 meters above sea level. It was mainly formed by the relocation of the Bunun people from Wenwen Hamlet and Jiali Moan Hamlet of the Kashe group.

During the Japanese Occupation, the Government-General in Taiwan set up a police post and education center here, but under the implementation of the relocation policy, Bunun people moved to Dili, Shuanglong and Tannan successively in 1936.

Today, you can reach Bakuras hamlet from Dili Village along Provincial Highway 16. The site of the former police post is now the Bakuras Farm, where the owner has restored two slate houses from the ruins.

Tamarowan Hamlet is located on the river terrace on the north bank of the upper reaches of Zhuoshui River in Dili Village, Xinyi Township, Nantou County. Traditionally the Bunun named the place Tumazuan, also known as Damaluan.

In the early days of the Japanese occupation, this area was a forest. After the implementation of the relocation policy by the Government-General in Taiwan, the Bunun people from Shuanlong Hamlet of the Luanshe group and the Danda Hamlet, Tai-ersan Hamlet, Kanetwan Hamlet of the Danshe group successively moved here and formed a new Tamarowan Hamlet.

Today, you can reach Dili Village from the Provincial Highway 16 in Shuili Township, Nantou County, and the outpost is the gateway into the old Bunun hamlet sites and the Danda Forest Road.