Heritage Manufacture Club_ Unknown History

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Heritage Manufacture Club_ Unknown History


In the seventeenth century, before the boom of Han Chinese immigrants disembarked on the Island of Formosa, the original inhabitants distributed throughout the island all spoke different languages, with their communication still remained in the stage of primitive life slaying. Two years after the Dutch East India Company retreated to the Formosa Island, Christian missionaries set foot on the island to conduct missionary work. Ds. Robertus Junius, the second missionary to land in Taiwan made Chihkan as his base, and began his long 14 years of missionary work in Taiwan. He claimed to have baptized 5900 people, mostly of the Pingpu tribe aborigines who lived on the southwest coast. During this time, he taught them Pinyin for recording the Formosa language, and used the text, now known as the Sinckan Manuscripts, to propagate the Christianity doctrines. In the eighteenth century, a man called George Psalmanaazaar, who claimed to be a Formosan, published a book (An historical and geographical description of Formosa) on the history and geography of Formosa, and presented the Lord’s Prayer in pseudo-Formosa text. Although these two texts are present on the same piece of land, these two real existing texts about Taiwan became a kind of legendary imagination under different views of Chinese history.

古蹟製造社_未知的歷史

十七世紀,在漢人移民尚未大量踏上福爾摩沙島之前,島上分佈的原始住民有不同語言,相互之間的溝通還處於原始生活的殺戮。基督教的宣教師在荷蘭東印度公司退守福爾摩沙島之後兩年,踏上本島進行傳教工作。第二位登台傳教的尤羅伯(Ds. Robertus Junius)牧師以赤崁為基地,進行了在台長達十四年的傳教,號稱受洗了5900位福爾摩沙人,多為西南岸的平埔族。期間並授以羅馬拼音,來記錄福爾摩沙語,以現稱的新港文呈現基督教義的傳播。十八世紀自稱福爾摩沙人的撒瑪納札(George Psalmanaazaar)出版了一本介紹福爾摩沙歷史地理的書(An historical and geographical description of Formosa),並以偽福爾摩沙文呈現基督教主禱文。雖然是在同一塊土地上,這兩篇關於台灣真實存在的文本,在不同的大中國歷史史觀之下,形成了有如傳說般的想像。


文本1. 基督教主禱文/
刊行於「西拉雅語與德語對譯」一書(1806, 柏林),
NO.95出自尤羅伯(Ds. Robertus Junius)牧師(刊行於1645_新港語基督教信仰要項)。

文本2.基督教主禱文/
出自撒瑪納札(George Psalmanaazaar)所著之「福爾摩沙變形記(An historical and geographical description of Formosa)」。
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portraits of Ds. Robertus Junius(left) and George Psalmanaazaar(right)
stone rubbing from text 2

stone rubbing from text 1
Symbol of Burning Bushes 
Installation View