At present, there are 16 officially recognized tribes, which can be roughly divided into aborigines and ordinary tribes. Initially, they were widely distributed in mountainous areas and gathered along alluvial plains to form tribes. At present, the aborigines maintain their own language, customs and tribal structure.
However, faced with the problem of rapid modernization, most Pingpu people have lost their original language and customs. The Atayal, Bunun, Zou, Rukai, paiwan, Beinan, Ami, Taroko, Sacile Ya, Shao, Sedek, Kalmalan (now Pingpu), La Harroy and Kanakanakanafu live in the east of Taiwan Province Island, and Dawu lives in the affiliated island.
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Taiwan Province Province, located on the continental shelf in the southeast coast of Chinese mainland, is adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the east, Ryukyu Islands in the northeast, bashi channel and Philippine Islands in the south, and Fujian Province across the Taiwan Province Strait in the west, with a total area of about 36,000 square kilometers, including 2/kloc-0 affiliated islands such as Taiwan Province Island, Lan Yu Island, Green Island and Diaoyu Island, and 64 islands of Penghu Islands. Taiwan Province Island, with an area of 35,882.6258 square kilometers, is the largest island in China, with 7 mountains and hills. The plain is mainly concentrated in the western coast, with great changes in topography and altitude.
Because it is located at the junction of tropical and subtropical climate, it is rich in natural landscape and ecological resources. The population is about 23.5 million, more than 70% of which are concentrated in the five metropolitan areas in the west, with the largest metropolitan area in Taipei.
The mainland and Taiwan Province Province belong to the same China, and Taiwan Province Province is an inalienable part of China. /kloc-Before the Han people moved in in the 0/7th century, the indigenous people (Gaoshan people) settled here. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, people in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong migrated to farm, and finally formed a society dominated by Han nationality.
Penghu belongs to Fujian Road in Southern Song Dynasty; Yuan Ming set up a patrol inspection department in Penghu; It was occupied by Holland and Spain in the late Ming Dynasty. 1662 Zheng Chenggong recovered; In Qing Dynasty, 1684 was located in Taiwan Province and belonged to Fujian Province, and 1885 was established. 1895, the Qing government ceded treaty of shimonoseki to Japan; 1945 recovery after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War; From 65438 to 0949, the Kuomintang government retreated to Taiwan Province Province in the defeat of the civil war, and then the two sides of the Taiwan Strait were divided.
Reference source Baidu Encyclopedia-Taiwan Province Province