A school facing the Pacific, hands-on with tradition.
Dongqing Elementary serves Iranmeylek (Dongqing) village on Orchid Island, with a campus that sits directly on Dongqing Bay — the Pacific Ocean fills the view from the school's front gate. Nearly all students here are Tao (Yami) Indigenous, and the school has built its identity around a distinctive "canoe-building generational inheritance" program, in which children learn the traditional skills of constructing the Tao plank canoe, or tatala, directly from community elders.
東清國小服務蘭嶼東清（Iranmeylek）部落，校園緊鄰東清灣，從校門口望去就是一片太平洋。全校幾乎皆為達悟族（雅美族）學生，學校並以「拼板舟造舟技藝世代傳承」課程建立其特色，讓孩子直接向部落耆老學習達悟族拼板舟（tatala）的傳統製作技藝。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🛶 A Canoe-Building Inheritance Program
造舟技藝世代傳承課程
Students take part in a dedicated program passing down the skills of building the Tao plank canoe (tatala) from elders to children, keeping a centuries-old craft alive in the classroom.
🌅 A Front Row Seat on the Pacific
面向太平洋的東清灣校園
The campus sits directly on Dongqing Bay, one of Orchid Island's most scenic stretches of coastline — the ocean is visible from school grounds every day.
🐟 A Nearly Entirely Tao Student Body
學生幾乎全為達悟族
With almost all students of Tao Indigenous heritage, daily school life is deeply woven together with the flying-fish-season rituals and traditions of the surrounding village.
Iranmeylek village and the Tao people.
Dongqing Elementary's canoe-building curriculum directly transmits the Tao (Yami) people's signature plank-canoe and flying-fish fishing tradition to the next generation. The Tao are Taiwan's only Indigenous people traditionally settled on an offshore island, with a language and material culture distinct from the fifteen Indigenous peoples of the main island.
Find the school.
No. 1, Dongqing, Lanyu Township, Taitung County 952, Taiwan
952台東縣蘭嶼鄉東清1號
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