As recently as five or six thousand years ago, they crossed the strait from mainland China to Taiwan, landing on what is now the west coast, where they settled in the plains. Later they moved to the tablelands and foothills, and then went up the river valleys to where they can now be found in Nantou County deep in the Central Range.
在據今五、六千年前，由中國大陸渡海來台，在今日西部平原登陸，由平原而台地、入淺山，再順著溪谷抵達今日南投縣中央山脈深山中。