Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Events (hierarchy name)
4. events (activities)
5. cultural events
6. holidays
7. cultural holidays
8. [festivals of Taiwanese indigenous people]

Anotations

Scope note:

The Paiwan’s festival of Maljeveq is held every five years and composed of two phases. At the first phase, people go through the preliminaries, invoke and offer gifts to the ancestral spirits and participate in activities such as setting up symbolic barricades to fend off evil spirits, piercing rattan balls pitched into the air in a contest, singing and dancing. The second phase takes place in the following year, in which ceremonies are held to bid farewell to evil spirits and ancestral spirits. Different tribes tend to interpret the origin of Maljeveq differently, while there are a number of objectives central to the festival: praying to ancestral spirits for good fortune, expressing sentiments that people hold dear to their life, holding the tribe together and reallocating positive augury among families.