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The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan has a history of 156 years. Its historical roots can be traced back to 1865 when the British Presbyterian missionary Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell came to Taiwan to start medical missions in the south of Taiwan, and the pastor of Canadian Presbyterian Church, George Leslie MacKay, worked in northern Taiwan in 1872. These missionaries not only made medical and educational contributions to Taiwan in the early days, but also helped partly with the preservation of the language of Taiwan’s Indigenous people. In the early days, missionaries learned the languages of the indigenous peoples, and they preached to the tribes and trained tribal people to become preachers. Up to now, the Indigenous people have translated the Bible into the tribal bible. The Tjavatjavang Presbyterian Church, founded in 1950, is located in the Dalai tribe in Sandimen Township, Pingtung County. It belongs to the Paiwan Presbyterian Church in the Presbyterian Church. In 1990, due to the government policy, the tribal people moved from the old Dalai to the current New Dalai tribe. Moreover, owing to the increase of the number of the believers, the old church became unusable and was rebuilt in 2008 and completed in 2011. The building materials are reinforced concrete and a large number of stone slabs. There are many stone slabs as decorations on the periphery of the church. The slates are painted with images of the migration history and mythological stories of the Dawa Dawang tribe. A few stone slabs are also carved with the Roman pinyin of the Paiwan people. Language, showing the integration of Christianity and Paiwan culture. This article first discusses the development of the Presbyterian Church in the Paiwan ethnic group and the influence of the Christian faith on the traditional culture of the Paiwan ethnic group. It sees that the integration of the Christian faith and the Paiwan culture is displayed in the buildings of the Tjavatjavang church, and then further analyzes the cultural elements of the Tjavatjavang Presbyterian Church. The research site is based on the Dalai tribe in Sandimen Township, Pingtung County. The main research areas are the old Dalai tribe and the Tjavatjavang church. It discussed the Christian cultural elements and the Paiwan cultural elements in the church, mainly focusing on the perspective and the culture inside the church and how it effect the local village, the church of Tjavatjavang church has both the function of a church and the local cultural characteristics. The church is not only a center of local Christian believers, but also one of the fields of cultural heritage.
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