Fenggang Traversing

The Yitun Hamlet is located by the Nanhui Road on the south bank of Fenggang River and its tributary Caopuhou River in Shizi Township, Pingtung County.  It is about 3 km east of the Danlu Hamlet.

Yitun Hamlet was formed by the migrations of residents who originally lived in the upper reaches of Fangshan River, and eventually settled here. In the middle of the Japanese occupation, there were already tribesmen of Mudanlushe migrated and slowly formed a hamlet. Later, the tribesmen of Tjurusalis'she, Litjukutjuku'she, and Badjuku'she moved there. The origin of the hamlet name, Itonzan, is unknown, and was transliterated into Yitun after the war.

Fenglin Hamlet is located on a gentle sloping ground along the south bank of the Fenggang Creek tributary in Shizi Township, Pingtung County. It is about 2.5 kilometers away from Fenggang, and was established 1941 when former residents of Neimaribashe and Achameixueshe moved here. The houses and laneways are neatly arranged, belonging to the Paiwan tribe of the Neiwen group. Before the end of the Japanese occupation, there was no distribution of tribes in this area. After the group relocation project was completed, the Governor-General in Taiwan set up a police post here and named the hamlet Fengshe. In the early post-war period, the National Government moved the township office from Shizi Village to this place and renamed it Fenglin. The origin of the place name should have been the same as that of Fenggang, because of the strong downhill wind in winter.

Fenggang is located on the south bank of the Fenggang River near the shore in Fangshan Township, Pingtung County. As it is located in the month of Fenggang River, it was named after the strong downhill wind in winter. In the past, Fenggang was the junction where indigenous peoples and Han Chinese traded.  It was the traditional territory of the Paiwan from Shebulishe. It was also the starting point of Fenggang Beinan Historic Trail when it was excavated during the Qing period. During the Japanese occupation period, the Governor-General in Taiwan set up a police post to monitor the operation between people from the mountains and people from the plains, and to manage the security of the Fenggang area. Today, the Fenggang Police Post is transferred into a Biker Rest Stop for cyclists and tourists.

The Caopu Hamlet is located in the upper reaches of Fenggang River in Shizi Township, Pingtung County.  It was formed by the migration of residents from Caopuhoushe and Qulieyoushe at the end of the Japanese occupation. Due to the limited flat living space, the houses dispersed everywhere, divided into Upper and Lower Caopu. The current Caopu Elementary School was moved from Caopuhoushe to its current location in 1940.

Shouqia is located at a small mountain pass at the end of the Central Mountain Range, about 500 meters above sea level, at the junction of Shizi Township in Pingtung County and Daren Township in Taitung County. Not only is it located on the Fenggang Beinan Historic Trail,  it is also where the Nanhui Road passes through today. In fact, Fenggang Beinan Historic Trail was built under the policy of excavating mountains to manage indigenes during the Qing period. The excavation mainly went along the river heading north-east from Fenggang. It does not overlap with Nanhui Road but runs alongside the tribal passage all the way to Shouqia. Finally, arriving at Dawu from Rumulu River.

Yongsen Hamlet or Mulinaga is located in Daren Township, Taitung County. The hamlet was formed by the migration of people who originally lived in old Dagu and neighboring Gutanas and Enivaian hamlets in 1953.  Due to the inconvenience of living in a steep mountainous area , the tribesmen of old Dagu hamlet chose to live on the land where Morinaga Hoshinaen Co. Ltd. specialized in planting quinine, coffee and tea during the Japanese occupation.

The traditional Paiwan name of old Dagu is Tjarilik, which means steep mountains, while the traditional place name, Gutanas, means the hamlet on the cliffs, and Enivaian refers to the place where there are sacred and big trees. The name of the current hamlet is Yongsen or Mulinaga, which is taken from the farm’s name “Morinaga”.