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● This is translated from Mo'o's "布農有一次" (On a Bunun occasion). The original is written in Chinese.

On a Bunun Occasion
By Mo'o Eucna (Cou)

Bunun and Cou had been at feud. Because of territories we had been hacking and slashing each other for centuries. Although we now get along with each other "peacefully," in ordinary conversation, we still play the "tit-for-tat" game. Thus, every time I meet my Bunun friends, we scoff at each other.

Here is an interesting question that worth of kenkiu.

There is a short article on National Culture Association's website (in its "culture forum") entitled "Keelung, Chicken Cage" ("基隆．雞籠"). Chen Nai-ching (陳乃菁) writes,

The name "Chicken Cage" [pronounced as "Ke-lang" in Holo, "Chi-lung" in Chinese, officially spelled as "Keelung"] first appeared in 1617 in the book Studies on the Orient and the Occident (東西洋考) writen by the Chinese Chang Hsieh (張燮). There are several versions of the origin of this name; among them is Chen P'ei-kuei's (陳培桂) 1870 History of the Tamtsui T'ing (淡水廳志). Chen indicates that the shape of the Hoping Island (和平島, lit. Peace Island) looks like a chicken cage, that is how Keelung earned such a name. But today's Hoping Island was called She-liao Island (社寮島) in earlier times, not Keelung. Thus this statement is still to be verified.