新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

From July 2019 to June 2022, National Tsing Hua University collaborated with Jiaxing Elementary School to research and develop a language preservation program that included recording, translation, and bilingual text preparation of Atayal’s Lmuhuw tradition. The program was supported by MOST grants and the Hsinchu Smart City and Village Revitalization Program’s Regional Innovation Center. This paper is divided into five research sections: First, discovering that “the ancestors’ words” were gradually disappearing in Jianshi, this paper established the objectives and approaches of the program. The second section provides a general introduction to the concepts and practice of Atayal Pedagogy and the Atayal experimental education allies in Jianshi, demonstrating how this program centers on the need for a culture curriculum in an indigenous people’s school to preserve the “cultural habitat”. Third, as a piece of action research, this paper diagnoses the weaknesses in the program’s translation and transcription. It further explores the process of optimizing the “bilingual Lmuhuw text translation production service system” through a translation research society, a study group for classic translations, documentary filmmaking, a green mini trip to Jianshi, and digital humanities. Last, by analyzing Hsinchu County’s geographical features, including the “1000-meter gap between villages’’ and examining “cultural preservation research and development” in Atayal education, the paper notes the value of Lmuhuw bilingual text research and development in cultural preservation, cultural empowerment, and cultural accessibility. This paper demonstrates the current state of the Lmuhuw tradition in Jianshi and the effectiveness of the program for the preservation of the Lmuhuw tradition.