Taiwan's aboriginals regarded their water sources as sacred lands. The Paiwan and Rukai tribes forbade hunters to enter the lands of their ancestral spirits in the Tawu Mountains, which were also their source of water, because they were "so sacred that they must be inviolate."
台灣原住民把水源區當聖地，排灣族、魯凱族限制獵人進入祖靈所出、也是水源地的大武山打獵，因為它「神聖不可侵犯」。