Despite this modernization, most tribes have preserved their ancient sacrificial ceremonies. The annual harvest ritual of the Tsao tribe and the sacrificial ceremony of the Saisiat tribe in honor of the pygmies (short people, as the aborigines call them), are perhaps the most representative. The Saisiat aborigines hold a sacrificial ceremony in the autumn every two years, and a grand ceremony every 10 years.
然而，每一族的山胞仍然刻意保留他們特有的傳統祭典，其中賽夏族的矮靈祭，更是目前台灣少有的原始祭典之一，該族每兩年的秋季舉辦一次小祭，每十年舉辦一次大祭。