The symbolic meaning of "tribe": If you mention the harvest or new year's festivals of the nine tribes, most people will have a stereotyped impression of a night spent singing, dancing, and drinking but will know nothing of their background or of how these unique cultural phenomena were distilled over time from tribal experience.
提起九族的豐年祭或年祭，一般人的刻板印象裡，總只見族人通宵舞蹈、飲酒高歌的表面，而不知它的背後，是經過族人長期生活經驗的累積之後，才發展出一套獨特的文化系統。