The pestle music of the Bunun, which is played before the rice harvest, was originally intended to attract people from neighboring villages to come and share in the crop. Rice isn't planted much any more, but the performance still shows the tribe's solidarity and generous spirit of sharing, qualities worth cherishing by indigenous people and outsiders alike.
而布農人的杵音，用意是在小米收成前，在地上樁打音樂，呼引鄰近族人同來分享；在現在小米已不太種了，然而藉著樂舞表演，呈現族人團結、分享的精神，這仍是值得山地同胞或現代人珍視的。