Dear all,

Namuan Multicultural Farming Field Trip

Namuan Village is located within Zhuoxi Township in southern Hualien County. At the foot of Yushan, the highest mountain in Taiwan, Namuan live mostly the Bunun tribal people. For generations, the Bunun had been living by hunting, gathering and growing millet in the mountain areas, but was forced to move down to lowland areas to grow rice during the Japanese colonization. Forced migration had changed their traditional ways of living, and recruited the Bunun into the regime of modern agriculture, using chemical pesticides and fertilizers to increase productivity at the cost of human health and the sustainability of the ecosystem. With increasing environmental and cultural awareness, the Namuan villagers started organic farming

In this event, while getting your feet wet in the soil, you may hike the gorgeous Walami Trail, experiencing a trip filled with rich history and fascinating stories of the Bunun Tribe. While harvesting of the rice, praying to the ancestral ritual, listening the Pasibutbut (Eight-part polyphony), you may learn and experience the feeling of harmony between the man and nature. Besides, to promote the organic rice food, Namuan tribe will treat visitors delicious organic rice food as lunch.

1. Event Date：Sunday, 15 November, 2015

2. Gathering place：Parking Lot, West Community House, NDHU

3. Qualification：International Students in NDHU (including international exchange students, foreign students, overseas Chinese students and main-land China students.)

4. Expense：NT 700 (including transport, lunch, insurance fee and tribal interpreter fee. Dinner on own in Yuli Township. And there will be no refund once you cannot attend the event.)

5. Registration Period：12：00, Friday, 9 October, 2015 to 17：00, Friday, 16 October 2015 (No acceptance after due day)

*Please both complete on-line registration & submit the expense before Deadline.*

6. Payment Period: Start from 14:00, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 (First Come, first served)

7. Participants limit：75 persons

In order to have your guarantee, you will only be counted in after paying the expense, so it may probably be full ahead of the deadline as long as we have received enough participants.

8. On-line registration Web.： http://www.oia.ndhu.edu.tw/files/87-1114-726.php

9.Schedule：(The schedule may be changed due to weather or the road condition

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2015秋天南安部落收穫祭及有機米食體驗文化之旅

南安部落位於花蓮縣南邊卓溪鄉，台灣最高峰的玉山山腳下，主要的居民為台灣的原住民族--布農族。布農族人世代居住在山裡，以打獵、採集以及種植小米等作物為生。日本統治台灣時，強制將布農族人遷徙至平原地區，引入水稻耕作，徹底改變了布農族人的文化與生活方式。現代農業使用農藥及化肥來增加產量，但造成生態環境破壞與健康的威脅。過去一年裡，南安部落開始嘗試有機耕作。

在豐收的季節邀請您到南安國家公園，在這片美麗的大地上，去看見南安布農族敬天愛地的傳統生活智慧，一同彎腰感受農夫的勞動，實地體驗豐收的美好，並藉由布農族收穫歲時祭儀，輔以「永恆的天籟」八部合音宴饗天地、祖靈和眾人，祈求所有農作物獲得保護。本次活動為了推廣有機米食活動，中餐特別難得可以享用多樣化的有機米食，享受農友用心與努力的成果。餐後將同遊充滿生命與歷史記憶的瓦拉米步道，在秋天的林間田裡聆聽布農族人的故事。  

1.活動日期：2015年11月15日(星期日)

2.集合地點：多容館後方停車場

3.報名資格：東華大學全體境外學生 (含交換學生、僑生、陸生、外國學生)

4.活動費用：新台幣700元整

(含交通、代繳當天中午有機桌餐、保險，礦泉水、瓦拉米步道導覽解說，當天晚餐將至玉里鎮上自理，若活動當日未到、因故無法如期參加均恕不退費)

5.報名期間：2015月10月9 日(星期五)至10月16日(星期五)17：00截止，

6繳費開始：2015年10月13日(星期二)下午14：00 (先搶先贏，額滿為止。

7.名額限制：75人 (以完成繳費者為優先)

8報名網址：http://www.oia.ndhu.edu.tw/files/87-1114-726.php

9.活動行程：(行程可能因路況或天氣因素有所調整)