Scrupulous attention to the prerogatives of age is a traditional virtue of the aborigines. But with the outflow of population, the elaborate system of age classes has gradually become blurred and only comes into focus at the annual harvest festival.
長幼有序，一向是原住民的傳統美德之一，沒想到在人口大量外流，年齡階級組織已經呈現半解體的狀態下，仍在一年一度的豐年祭中清楚彰顯了它的運作。