Around the 17th Century, for administrative convenience, the Qing dynasty divided the Taiwan's indigenous people roughly according to their degree of sinification, into the categories "mature barbarians" (shou fan) and "raw barbarians" (sheng fan).
大約在十七世紀，清朝為了統治便利，將當時早已生活在台灣的「土著」，按照漢化程度，粗略區分為「生番」和「熟番」。