In 1919, there was a serious drought and influenza epidemic in the mountainous regions of Taiwan. Many Atayal thought it was the punishment of angry ancestral spirits. Some villages began to revive their tradi tion of tattooing.
一九一九年，台灣山地發生了嚴重的乾旱和流行感冒，許多泰雅族人認為是祖靈震怒的處罰，也有些部落開始恢復文面。