Anthropologists have still not decided why the aborigines settled in the mountains, so the prevalence of the theory that were displaced there by the Han Chinese may be just a case of the cultural superiority complex of the Han Chinese acting up again!
先住民為何居於高山，在人類學中至今尚無定論；「不敵漢人而逃遁」的說法所以能普遍流傳，恐怕也是漢民族的文化優越感作祟吧！