Where nearly every student is Paiwan.
Taiwu Junior High School, located in Jiaping Village near the base of Dawu Mountain (北大武山) — the sacred mountain of the Paiwan people — was celebrating its 42nd graduating class as of the 2018-19 school year, suggesting a founding around 1976-77. Nearly all students here are Paiwan indigenous youth from the mountain villages of Taiwu Township. The school built a strong volleyball program starting in 2012-13, when it established a volleyball club and, the following year, a school representative team nicknamed the “Paiwan Warriors” (排灣戰士). Competing as a “dark horse,” the team went on to win its first-ever championship title in the JHVL boys' division.
泰武國中位於佳平村，鄰近排灣族聖山——北大武山山腳，截至107學年度已慶祝第42屆畢業生，推估創校年約為民國63至64年（1976至77年）。學生幾乎全為來自泰武鄉山區部落的排灣族青年。學校自民國101學年度（2012-13）起成立排球社團，隔年組成校代表隊，暱稱「排灣戰士」，以黑馬之姿奪得全國國中排球聯賽（JHVL）男子組冠軍，寫下佳績。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏐 The “Paiwan Warriors”
排灣戰士排球隊
Formed as a school representative team in 2013-14 after a volleyball club launched the year before, the “Paiwan Warriors” won their first-ever JHVL boys' division championship as a dark-horse contender.
⛰️ At the Foot of the Sacred Mountain
北大武山山腳
The school sits in Jiaping Village near the base of Dawu Mountain, the sacred peak of the Paiwan people, grounding students in a landscape of deep cultural meaning.
🎓 Over Four Decades of Graduates
逾四十屆畢業生
As of the 2018-19 school year, Taiwu Junior High had celebrated its 42nd graduating class, reflecting roughly half a century of educating the township's youth.
🪶 A Nearly Entirely Paiwan Student Body
學生幾乎全為排灣族
Serving the mountain villages of Taiwu Township, the school's student body is almost entirely Paiwan indigenous youth, anchoring it deeply in local indigenous life.
Taiwu, home of the internationally touring Ancient Ballads Choir.
Taiwu Township is a Paiwan indigenous mountain township in Pingtung, home to the internationally touring Taiwu Elementary Ancient Ballads Choir, a source of enormous local pride that has carried Paiwan traditional song to audiences worldwide. The township's traditional culture centers on the sacred Dawu Mountain (北大武山), millet farming, and slate-house (石板屋) architecture — a heritage that, after Typhoon Morakot's devastation in 2009, was rebuilt with striking care, including a permanent settlement whose school campus has been praised as one of the most beautiful in the world. Taiwu Junior High's students grow up immersed in this same living culture of mountain, music, and resilience.
Find the school.
No. 120, Jiaping Village, Taiwu Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan
屏東縣泰武鄉佳平村120號
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