【Reading Notes】Learn from Bunun hunters how to become "people in the mountains" - "Into Bunun's Mountains"

Learning from the people in the mountains and becoming a person in the mountains is my expectation.
Not only the knowledge and skills of the forest, but also the thinking.

It seems that because of the popularity of mountaineering, the visibility of books about mountains and the natural environment is also getting higher and higher. Among the works published in 2022, "Into the Mountains of Bunun" is written by Taiwan black bear researcher Guo Yanren ( Guo Xiong)’s first attempt at Crying, by combining the aboriginal culture, must have attracted many readers who are interested in both at the same time. In the book, the author recounts his personal experience of entering the mountains and forests in order to engage in research. He was able to understand because of his closeness to the mountains, and followed in the footsteps of the Bunun hunters, making himself a "person in the mountains".

A black bear researcher meets Bunun hunter culture

Different from Gan Yaoming's work "Becoming a Real Man", "Into the Mountain of Bunun" records the culture of the Bunun people and the meaning of the mountains and forests to the Bunun people in the first person; Readers of Bunun culture can pin themselves on the authors of the book and observe and experience the details of the book more closely. Although it is not like "Women's Mountains and Seas", the text is almost in the vernacular of "I handwrite my mouth", and there is no "Everything I told you about that mountain", where Liu Chenjun wrote about the mountains and life at the end of his tragic and solemn life, Guo Xiong mixes the memory of several mountaineerings, which is close to the record of stream of consciousness, but more directly conveys his sincere emotions and love for mountains and forests. Sometimes people can't help but follow the author when he encounters a strange experience. The text cheers, cheers.

Compared with other climbers, for Guo Xiong, walking into the mountains is closer to "going home", and he even calls the Batongguan Ancient Road a "mountain trail of deep contemplation"; for readers, reading "Into the Mountains of Bunun" It is also a journey of reflection. By seeing the life and outlook on life of the Bunun hunter, the daily routines we are accustomed to seem to become less taken for granted.

As I walked, the hunters taught me to remember deer hunting with obvious landscapes and signs. The moment of rest is to tell the ethnic name of each place and the stories that happened here. The rhythm of this hunter seems to be casual, which is different from the marching mountaineering mode, but it contains delicate and special geographic information and mountain forest emotions, showing the symbiotic relationship between culture and landscape.

Away from modern science and become a "man in the mountains" through personal experience

The habit of replacing GPS positioning with scenery and using bodily sensations to name names, even if they have not received professional training, they have far richer and more practical knowledge of mountain forests than scholars. The reflections of these authors in the text challenge the modern emphasis on science and standardization. thinking. In particular, the author mentioned that he always wanted to seek "standard answers" in the past, but repeatedly hit soft nails, and finally realized the experience that many things must be "experienced" in order to understand, and even directly hit the blind spots of traditional education, and even modern people are growing up. Later, it is still a common problem of feeling anxious because of being obsessed with "why".

The Bunun used to live a prosperous life in the mountains, not as formworkers, collaborators or drinkers down the mountain.

Although most of the content is about the author's interaction with nature when conducting research, the most important meaning of "Into Bunun's Mountain" may be to see the rich cultural heritage and even the wisdom of life, but it is unavoidable to quickly The plight of the dying natives. Taiwan is a mountainous island, and the increasing frequency of mountaineering activities also shows that even modern people cannot live outside the mountains and forests. However, do we really understand mountains? The mountain forest and the creatures in it also need to be protected and respected. Only by learning from those "people in the mountains" who do not have dazzling titles, but who know how to interact with nature better than others, may we truly realize the so-called "people in the mountains". Mountaineering Culture" and "Climbing Spirit".

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