Millet Culture of Paiwan Tribe    ◎ Written by Zi Gao ◎ photos by Zi Gao

Paiwan Tribe has good traditional wine drinking culture.

       Wine drinking culture of Paiwan Tribe      Millet wine plays an important role in the life, sacrifices and etiquette and customs of indige-nous people. They help communicate, serve in worship and are for friendship. I often hear that millet wine has superb taste with unforgettable flavor. It seems that millet wine is the best among all wines

      Now, owing to inaccurate reports of the media, Han people in Taiwan have wrong impression that indigenous people love drinking wine very much. In fact, Paiwan Tribe has good concept of wine drinking. Those who are not at the certain age are forbidden to drink and people shall not drink at will. Such good traditional drinking culture, however, does not have force of constraint on modern Paiwan Tribe.