Dai Ai Park Introduction
After the Morakot disaster in 2009, Shanlin became an important base for home reconstruction. The DAI (Great Love) Park includes facilities such as a church, workshops, Hope Square, an indigenous cultural park, and DAI Elementary School. However, the most valuable aspect is that residents, according to their respective ethnic legends, totems, and preferences for colors and shapes, have created a unique "vocabulary of homes" in DAI Park. The houses of the Bunun people display colorful diamonds as well as totems of the sun and moon, while the houses of the Rukai and Paiwan peoples are adorned with decorations of the hundred-pace snake and the lily flower. These totems represent the legends and memories of the entire ethnic group. If you see couplets for the Spring Festival, it indicates a Han family. The "Xiaolin Park" from Xiaolin Village is connected by the Lion Bridge, which was donated by the Lions Club, and several clumps of bamboo have become an important memory of the ancestral hometown Xiaolin.
