Alien Village locates at the south bank of the middle of Ni-Luen Queh (二仁溪) lacking of transportation and irrigation advantage. Constrained by natural environment, Alien’s agricultural production is not self-sufficient, so as to form it’s special expanded agricultural style. The great Gangsan (大岡山), the natural barrier from eastern side, makes this area a peripheral one of political power all along history. On the other hand, it provides profound agricultural and religionary resources. Recently, Alien Village is becoming a Chief town of Buddhism in South Taiwan. Alien clutches the head of The great Gangsan and becomes the transition gate between western plain and eastern hills. This unique geological position gives Alien Village characteristics of both peripheral and regional central place.The village temple — Ching-Ho Palace（清和宮） has been constituted with different Groups integrated geologically from the very beginning. Because of some sacrifices activities held every month, in mid-year or every twelve years (called Ching-Jiao清醮), the village people in Alien have been fused as a common life community. From the evolution of friends-making around village temple and of the intermarriage-sphere, we can see the interaction among Alien village folks, the network relationship with nearby Tien-Liao （田寮）Village and Gang-San Town （岡山鎮）and the enlargement of living scope. Following with the change of big environment’s political situation, the improvement of holistic economics, the development of transportation infrastructure, the enhancement of educational level and the influence of natural environment, Alien residents have been gradually enlarging their living territory. In that sense, Alien has more frequent interactions with its neighbors and has numerous immigrants day by day, so as to strengthen its multi-cultural features. We can tell from the evolution and matter-handling style of leading class and Ching-Jiao activities that the orderly social division of labor according to different classes and Groups integrated interpersonal network firmly and people are simple, honest, unspoiled and friendly in the old days. After blooming economics in 70’s, Alien has been gradually transformed to modern society oriented by individualism and materialism.Alien Village is a settlement system developed from a nature village. This is the local homeland culture: influenced by geological environment、social environment and village people’s value, it presents deep societal appearance. Macroscopically, this culture is one part of the Taiwan’s general culture; Microscopically, it owns the unique regional lifestyle. Seeking out common culture sequences from ‘ big environment ’ and examining unique regional culture from ‘ small environment ’, and then concluding and analyzing between the differences are what the culture researchers have to put efforts on.
