Taiwan News
Date: 2016-08-26
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Mkmatuy, a tribal unit of the Atayal Tribe located in Jianshih Township, Hsinchu County, will hold a 
The Hsinchu County Government said as changes of the social structure have forced more and more tribal people to sell their land and move out of the tribes they grew up, the memory of Atayal culture has been fading away, which prompted Huang Yi-feng, an Atayal hair stylist, to organize a thanksgiving and harvest festival at Mkmatuy in Yixing Village on Aug 28.
Huang said traditionally August is Atayal’s thanksgiving season and the thanksgiving festival falls on the last Friday of August every year, when all the agriculture produces have been harvested, but these ceremonies are being forgotten and even unknown to younger generations.
Huang said he hopes to build an international stage, through which people can see the beautiful home of the aboriginal culture, and a homeland on which all tribal people can stay and work. The thanksgiving festival is like the Chinese New Year to Taiwanese people, he said, calling for all aboriginal people not to forget their cultural origin. [FULL STORY]