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堵溪抓魚文化

Block the stream to catch fish

Mieteng_一起到溪邊抓魚pakelang隨著水流回到日常

 

在阿美族的社會,舉凡慶典完成、農事或家屋完工、金榜題名、升遷等喜事就要舉行Pakelang, 一起聚會歡樂,最特別的是家裡如果遇見傷心的事情也會舉行pakelang,表示傷心的事情到此告一段落重新出發。

 

Pakelang的舉行跟吃魚有關,阿美族人擇水居住,靠海邊的會下海潛水抓魚,在海岸邊煮魚吃魚,而靠山的則會在溪邊抓魚煮魚吃魚。磯崎部落的男性多數傳承了老人家mieteng堵溪抓魚的生活智慧,他們會利用茅草或稻草來堵住水流,改變水的流向,並在這個被刻意改變的水道末端放置籐編或竹編的魚簍,讓隨著水流而下的魚蝦進入魚簍內。

 

當水流被堵住後,大家會齊力開始miemas撥水,帶水乾後開始翻開石頭撿拾魚、蝦、螃蟹和貝類,等撿拾到當天足夠pakelang食用的量,就在溪邊升火水煮採集到的食物,大家會一邊食用一邊吟唱。這個充滿文化內涵的群聚活動,有一股穩定人的力量,讓大家起伏的心情在pakelang之後回到生活的日常。

In Pangcah/Amis society where the ending of a more big thing like ritual ceremony、house construction、harvesting or honor thing like fine schooling、work promotion、marriage or sadness like death, tribe people with gathering for celebrating or grieving which is called "pakelang". To hold the pakelang ceremony the males have to go to the stream to catch fish、shrimps、crabs and shellfish, this activity is called "mieteng". To eat food from the stream symbolize the let either happiness or sadness pass by the water flow and after pakelang life goes to back to the daily pattern. 

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