Harvest festival in Danlin
It is 7 in teh morning, and time for harvest festival
Geai and his brother are preparing for some traditinal dance
I got a necklace...
...and s west....
Looking like the Paiwan people
Ready for Harvest Festival in Danlin
We watched some girls dance...
They hold their hands and sing some traditional songs
Later it was the guys turn
This guy had a cool hat
We later headed up to some ceremonial place...and were informed about some history about the village
And had some ricewine
Then some more dance...
And more speach...
Geai doesnt speak that well Paiwan language so his cousin translated...
Then the guys condinued...in the southern taiwanese sun...
They were suppose to run around the village
For about 10 minutes...
The girls were waiting
And the elder...
There they come...
They continued further down towards some other village
But eventually returned to where they started
Many people were here taking pics of this event
They were unified on their way back
And then they finished by more dancing
On theid back they have people holding hands
Some jackets had more people, seems like it is mostly decoration...and the amount of people has no meaning....
Group picture
Many people wanted to take pics
And some guy from Hsinchu hired to camera men to make some documentary, and they kept filming the event
He (the guy to the right) worked with selling and developing screens...
One more group pic in the sun
Paiwan outfit...I found some of the jackets reminded me of the swedish traditional costume
And after this dance, it was time for som drinking with the locals
Next step was to chop wood...
Geais father helped out
According to tradition guys leaves a pile of wood to the house he wants to get a girl from
Eventually it started to rain...seems like some typhoon is passing by the south of taiwan..but no wind....
Head rain...(white stripes on this pic)
We put the logs inside, for them to dry
People taking family potraits
Bubba chillin with a local called Jenny
Eventually the rain stopped
And people started to carry the wood ("Mutou")
There were pleny of woods
Even the kids where carrying some logs
Bubba also picked some
The guys ready to carry...
And people taking pics...
They fired crackers...to mark the start of the wook delivery
And off they go...
This house was popular to leave wood at...
Geais aunts house
More heavy logs
Some kids with their outfit
And bubba after a successful wood delivery
Later on we went to dance again
And it reached 18...and sun was setting ofer pingdong
Some local guys were then practicing for a performance later in the night
And a new costume was used...since Geai is royal he has some wild cat fur on the back of his west
Many people gathering for the event
And the girls performing some dance and song
And later the guys performed
And people taking pics
And then everyone gathered to dance together
After some traditional dance together...a DJ started some music
And everyone danced to the DJs music
We also had some millet wine
It was a nice event...with traditional outfit
And a group photo
...with drinking...someone made a cup of thie beer can
Later on the cleaning session started
Bubba lost his wallet somewhere
A local girl with a piercing
Still no walled found
Interesting...2 white guys diggin in the trash
Reminder me of some dumpster diving back home...but a little more messy
No sight...it was a 7-11-bag we were looking for
Trash pic 1
Trash pic 2
2 drunk guys enjoying trash pic 1
Evenrually they found the bag...not sure if it even was in the trash
Later we headed to Geais house...and had some swedish drinks
Many family members were there
...eating and drinking
It is a rather small village...it is very common that people mingle around to the places where they have many people living at...so in theory if u live on a road that is easy and convienent to go to...and u have something to treat...people will show up..
My friend Junai was also there
Eventually the friday was over....and it was time for getting to bed...
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