Shizi, Pingtung
Shizi Township is a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan. It is the largest township of the county. The main population is the Paiwan people of the Taiwanese aborigines.
Names
The original Paiwan name for the area was Tjakuvukuvulj. Han Chinese settlers noted a rock outcropping in the shape of a lion's head and called the village Sai-a-thau-sia.Under Kuomintang rule, the name was changed to the current Shizi, though in Taiwanese Hokkien the name Sai-a-thau is still normally used in spoken contexts.
Geography
The terrain of Shizi is mountainous, as the district is located near Taiwan's Central Mountain Range.Administrative divisions
The township comprises eight villages:- Caopu
- Danlu
- Fenglin
- Nanshi
- Neishi
- Neiwen
- Shizi
- Zhukeng