Brief introduction of kaidagelan nationality

More than 300 years ago, the Taipei basin belonged to the Kaidagelan people of Pingpu nationality, and about 30 societies were scattered around, engaged in fishing and hunting and simple farming. Because of his happy and contented nature, he lived a simple life until the invasion of Dutch and Spanish and the large-scale reclamation of Han people in Taiwan. These great changes have made the Ketagalan people, even the Pingpu people in Taiwan Province Province, go to the fate of disappearing. Today, we are looking for the past life of the Ketagalan people, not only through literature, but also on the basis of "archaeological" discoveries. At present, the biggest archaeological discovery is the "Thirteen Lines Site" in Bali District, New Taipei City. Inferred from the relics of this site, the Ketagalan people may have entered Taiwan Province Province at the time equivalent to the Han Dynasty in China. Their settlements and nearby areas became places where the Han people later immigrated, reclaimed land and established villages.

According to legend, the ancestors of the Ketagalan people landed from Sanjiaojiao, the easternmost island of Taiwan Province Province. /kloc-before the Kangxi earthquake in the 0/7th century, the literature pointed out that it was still the most important residential structure in Taipei. If subdivided, the distribution range of this ethnic group is probably Taipei City, Keelung City, Ruifang, Gongliao, Xindian, Banqiao and Taoyuan North District of New Taipei City. Some scholars divide Danshui River, Keelung River and Xindianxi River into two tributaries. Coupled with a/kloc-a "she tou she" (/Torobiawan) that moved to Yilan before the 6th century, it can be further divided into Basai and Luiran.

In the traditional Pingpu society, most beliefs are still in the stage of ancestor worship and totem worship, and the festivals of various ethnic groups are also different. Among them, the festivals of the Ketagalan nationality in the north are June 18 and August 16 of the lunar calendar. The festival in June is to pray for a bumper harvest of fish, and August is to thank Zuling Piyou for a bumper harvest of farming. They will sacrifice their sacred plant olives.

In addition, this ethnic group, like other ethnic groups of the Pingpu ethnic group, is a matriarchal society, which is obvious from the marital property system: men must be adopted by their wives, and property is also inherited by women, which is very different from Han culture. From17th century to18th century, a large number of Han immigrants from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou in Chinese mainland entered Taiwan Province Province. Because all ethnic groups in Pingpu are on the flat ground, they have more opportunities to contact with the Han people, and the Han people have no relatives, so the degree of intermarriage is extremely deep. In this case, in addition to being classified as a "familiar fan" by the Han people, the original cultural system has also been quickly lost.

According to textual research, many place names in Taipei today are translated by the pronunciation of Ketagalan people, such as Dalongdong, Beitou, Xu Lian, Bali, Xiulang, Mengga, etc. Even the name of Diaoyu Island comes from "fishing Ida", which means "springboard".