Today many elderly people still like to do things according to the almanac, and Chinese society still has holidays on the basis of the lunar calendar; like the ancestors of all mankind, those of the first inhabitants of Taiwan followed the opening of the flowers, the falling of the leaves, and the calls of the birds to serve as reference in deciding when to be idle.
今天許多老人家仍愛依循黃曆行事，而人們也都看著月曆作息，每個人也都有自己的行事曆。決定原住民作息的「自然曆」，和所有人類老祖先一樣，他們看花開、葉落、鳥鳴等大自然的改變來決定「日出而作、日落而息」。