Ja.Bau.Li - The Village of Sunrise - TaiMaLi

The Tai Mali village was assarted 1000 years ago by Qian YaoKao who was ancestor of Pai Wan race.The Qian YaoKao which also called DaMa race. Guangxu 3th year, due to DaMa has similar pronunciation to Tai Ma, thus it has been called Tai Mali by mainland people. Early of Republic Era, other aborigine such Ah Mei and Bai Wan races were moving continusly to Tai Mali village. Duringthe Japanese colonial period, there were also some resident from Miaoli, Nantou, Zhanghua, Yunlin, Jiayi, Tainan, Gaoxiong, Pindong settle down in Tai Mali village

Due to incresing of population, the militaty area service was established and subordinates to the Taitung. The year 26th of Republic Era, it had changed to Tai Mali area service. However, after taiwan decolonizing from Japan when was ear 34th of Republic Era, it changed to Tai Mali village. Also, according to Qing Dynasty literature record, the Tai Mali origin called Da Maomai as well, it had changed to Tai Mali when the Han people was moving there. The signification could not be traced but might related to the earlier resident easten Pai Wan race. In the meanwhile, there was a legend from Pai Wan race said that It is because the sun is raising from easten sea level, thus it had been called - Ja.Bau.Li which is Village of Sunrise.