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BAXIAN PREHISTORIC SITE HOPES TO REMOVE LATER RELIGIOUS ARTEFACTS|八仙洞搬遷爭議 文團盼遺址與宗教記憶並存

A court in Taitung recently ordered the relocation of a temple, together with its 93-year-old priest, from a local scenic site, after prehistoric relics dating back 30,000 years were found there, but cultural groups hold different views. 


In Taiwan's east coast, Baxian Cave is famous for its dozens of natural sea caves. Some fifty or sixty years ago, temple staff placed religious statues in these caves for visitors to pray. However, archeologists found these caves are important prehistoric sites with thirty thousand years of prehistoric culture. According to the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act, displays in all caves must be removed for research purpose. The Chaoyin Cave is not cleared out because the 94-year-old abbot has difficulty moving displays by himself.

==LAI HSIEN-TE Abbot, Chaoyin Cave==
If government wants everything to go away, there is nothing I can do, right ?

==LU YU-LING, Dep. Dir., Taitung County Cultural Affairs Dept.==
We negotiated with Mr. Lai, when construction begins, we will relocate him to other place to live.

A local culture and history organization found that the Ministry of Culture plans to have Baxian Cave as the national historical site, which may result in no visitor at all if cutting out all the means of interaction and relation from the past. 

==LI YU-FEN Dean, College of Humanities, Nat'l Taitung Univ.== 
It's like that government is taking away the beauty of interactions between human and environment.

== MS. LIU cultural history preservationist==
It is a continuous living matter, is there any possibility for them to co-exist in the cave?

The local culture and history organization pointed out, human living has been a continuous form since prehistory; they urge governments to consider keeping the temple and religious displays, and make the national historical site more suitable for human interests.


TRANSLATED BY: ANTHONY LIN

東海岸八仙洞國家風景區，洞穴內有3萬年前史前文化，民國95年被指定為國定遺址，依規定，宗教團體必須搬遷還地。不過拆遷的動作引起地方文化團體關切


東海岸八仙洞的海蝕洞地形，多達數十個洞穴，在五、六十年前就有寺廟在洞裡安置神像供遊客膜拜，不過考古學家已經發現，這些洞穴裡頭有3萬年前的史前文化，依文資法國定遺址規定要清理洞穴研究展示，法院判決寺廟都要搬走，現在剩下一個潮音洞還有一位高齡94歲的老住持獨居，要進行搬遷工作很困難。

==潮音洞住持 賴先德==
政府要拆也沒有辦法 對不對

==台東縣政府文化處副處長 魯玉玲==
我們也協調賴老先生
等工程開始進行的時候
我們也會再安置他
到其他地方居住

台東縣地方的文史工作團體發現，文化部要規劃八仙洞成為國定遺址展示區，搬遷的做法也同時把過去人們到洞穴內的互動關係切割，可能變成冷冷清清的洞穴。

==台東大學人文學院院長 李玉芬==
就好像把那個地方
人跟環境互動美 都抽離掉

==文史工作者 劉小姐==
既然它是一個連續生活的東西
是不是它是可以有共存的可能

文史工作團體說，人類的生活從史前到現在都是一直持續進行的，呼籲政府把遺址上存在廟宇的現況納入展示考量，規畫更符合人情趣味的國定遺址展場。

記者 章明哲 台東報導

http://news.pts.org.tw/article/354303