What are the humanistic characteristics of Hualien County?

Hualien potato, Hualien taro, mashed rice and mutton soup are all well-known snacks in Hualien, which are made by Hualien people using vast rivers to grow dry crops such as sweet potatoes, taro, peanuts, red beans or millet, and then skillfully processed. The raw material of Hualien potato is sweet potato, and Hualien taro is also called "Yugui steamed bread". Another feature is the improved millet cake from Durham, or Amima cake. Millet cake has developed many flavors such as red bean, mung bean, green tea and honey. Besides millet, it can also be made of red glutinous rice. The mutton soup imported from Japanese desserts originated in China, and its taste is salty. After it was introduced to Japan, it was changed into dessert, and the main ingredient was red beans. It is not difficult to do this, but it is quite labor-intensive. The most famous mutton soup is Wei Li's Guangshengtang.

Hualien stone carving is not only the majestic mountains and rivers, but also the hometown of many strange stones and beautiful jade. Because Hualien stratum has experienced many orogenic movements, the crustal plate is active, which breeds a wide variety of stones. All kinds of rocks are transported and pondered by large and small streams, and piled up on the riverbed and along the coast, becoming beautiful stones of various sizes and colors.

Large stones can be used as building materials and furniture to beautify the environment after mining and processing, while small stones are suitable for playing with in your hand. Rich stones have won Hualien the reputation of "hometown of stones" and created a different urban landscape for Hualien.

Durham is also known as Ami Pockmarked, but it is different from Pockmarked in both methods and materials. First, the millet should be boiled into small grains of rice, and then put into a mortar and pounded continuously. Because it is rich in viscosity, the millet will soon condense into a lump and become a sticky and tough Durham. Besides millet, there are Du Run made of red glutinous rice and white glutinous rice.

Ami people call bacon "westerners". No matter whether fish, fish eggs, animal meat or animal meat are dirty, they will be pickled if they can't finish eating. When making, first add salt to the meat, rub it, put it in a clay pot a few days later, pour some rice wine, seal it for one month and take it out. It is said that rotten maggots are the top grade of Xi Lao.

Ali's touch is a unique food of "Heather Ami", which is a bit like zongzi, and can also be called Ami rice bag. Ah Mui invests in ordinary forests by the sea. She picked her leaves first, cut off the thorns on the side, then woven four leaves into a bag and stuffed them into raw glutinous rice for cooking or dry steaming.

Most puffer fish live in rocky areas, and sometimes toxic substances accumulate in the intestines, so people in Taiwan Province Province seldom try. However, the Ami people living on the east coast have a tradition of eating puffer fish. They have enough experience to catch puffer fish with short spines and no toxicity. In practice, they first roast them with fire, then pull out their shells and cook soup in a pot. Because the meat is tender, it has always been the dish of the old people. Hualien's famous "No.1 puffer fish store in the world" provides Japanese flavors such as raw food and shochu, and Chinese flavors such as three cups, cold salad, steamed, sweet and sour, fried liver and fried. And served with Ami Daoxiang wine and anoectochilus roxburghii tea.

There are many traditional festivals of the Ami people, but the annual Harvest Festival is the biggest. It is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest of millet and worship the ancestors of the gods. It is of prudent significance to educate men to grow up and inherit the fire. Some tribes also choose suitable married men and women through activities such as sending betel nuts and "holding hands". In the past, the staple food of the Ami people was millet, and the festival schedule also matched the harvest of millet; Now the rice harvest season in Taitung is changed to July, and Hualien is changed to August. A complete harvest festival includes three stages: "welcoming spirits", "feasting spirits" and "sending spirits", with fishing ceremonies before and after; However, under the influence of the introduction of Christianity, social changes and many other factors, shortening the date and simplifying religious ceremonies have become an unchanging trend. Instead, it is integrated into sumo wrestling, tug-of-war and other competitions, even combined with wood carving, craft display and food parade, becoming a "carnival" with singing and dancing, and also a window for outsiders to understand Ami culture.

Fishing Festival is another important ceremony of the Ami people, which originated from the Ami ancestors drifting from the sea to the east coast, and was held to thank the sea gods for their protection and reproduction. This festival is mostly held before the harvest season in June and July, offering sacrifices to the sea gods, ancestors and dead souls at sea, and praying for a bumper harvest of fishing goods; Harvest Festival usually begins and ends with fishing. Fishing is a man's responsibility. For the Ami, it is not only an economic activity, but also an important ceremony and cultural heritage. The Ami people classified by age establish the transmission of life experience from fishing, teach the younger generation to understand and respect natural creatures, and men also strengthen their responsibility to their families.