In the 17th Century, when the Dutch came to Hualien, they saw "a kind of red, glittering earth" at a blacksmith's forge, and they asked the local Ami people what it was used for.
十七世紀，荷蘭人來到花蓮，在一間鐵匠鋪裡看到「一種閃閃發紅光的土質」，追問阿美族人，這是作什麼用的？