Bunun’s “natural refrigerator” – Luanshan Forest Museum

When around twenty years ago in Taitung’s Luanshan village, Yanping Township, a financial consortium wanted to buy local land to build a columbarium (residence for the ashes of the deceased), local Bunun tribesman A-li-man went to painstaking efforts to save the land, eventually establishing Luanshan Forest Museum. This place has no street signs, electricity or gas, only the traditional wisdom and culture of the Bunun people. A-li-man said that to the Bunun people the forest is a natural refrigerator, providing all the essentials of life, and as such, demands that we treat it with reverence and respect. With the aim of passing on the tribe’s cultural heritage, he insists on using only natural elements of the land and culture, and steadfastly refuses to engage in the selling of any commercial products, instead, aspiring to live in harmony with the forest.

Bunun’s “natural refrigerator” – Luanshan Forest Museum 

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(以下是中文對照)

布農族的「生活冰箱」 鸞山森林博物館

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在十二年前的台東縣延平鄉鸞山部落，有財團想購買當地土地建造靈骨塔，當地布農族人阿力曼費盡苦心、搶救家園，後來建立了鸞山森林博物館。這裡沒有路標、電力跟瓦斯，只有傳承布農族智慧與文化的原鄉部落。阿力曼說，這片山林是他們生活的冰箱，所以要以很好的態度善待自然，他也堅持從土地的元素、文化的脈絡出發，堅持不賣任何商品，以文化傳承的理念，與這片森林共同生長。