Over the Big-Plain Organic Farm (大草原有机農場) located at Wuai-Pu Village (外埔鄉) of the Taichung County (台中縣), one can see some flood-barriers made of rocks and straws along the edge of the rice fields. The rocks in the flood-barriers are arranged according to the so-called 5-rock arrangement (It means every rock in the barrier is surrounded by another 5 rocks in its perimeter) which has an amazing flood-stopping functionality.) The flood-barriers were the artifacts of the Ping-Pu tribe (平埔族) which is an agriculture-based aboriginal tribe. There were a lot of inter-racial marriage between a Ping-Pu woman and a Han-Jin 漢人 man . They could be the ancestors of the modern Taiwanese.
Photo shows such a flood barrier seen at Big-Plain Organic Farm (大草原有机農場).
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