Dai Ai Park Introduction
After the Morakot typhoon disaster in 2009, Shanlin became an important base for home reconstruction. The Da Ai Park features a church, workshops, Hope Square, an indigenous culture park, and the Minzu Da Ai Primary School, but what is most valuable is that residents have created a unique "house vocabulary" in the Da Ai Park, influenced by their respective ethnic legends, totems, and preferences for colors and shapes. The houses of the Bunun people display vibrant diamond patterns and totems of the sun and moon, while the houses of the Rukai and Paiwan tribes are decorated with motifs of the hundred-step snake and lilies, all representing the legends and memories of their entire ethnic groups. If you see couplets for the Spring Festival, that indicates a Han Chinese family. The "Xiaolin Park," from Xiaolin Village, is connected by the Lion Bridge donated by the Lions Club, and several clumps of bamboo have become an important memory of the indigenous Xiaolin.
