提到新西兰毛利人,很多人首先想到的是纹面和碰鼻礼。毛利人(Māori)是新西兰岛上的原住民,相传其祖先系10世纪后自波利尼西亚中部的社会群岛迁来的。也有的学者通过对我国台湾阿美族太巴塱部落门窗开的位置、建筑梁柱等结构的考察认为,毛利人是四千多年前从台湾迁出的,其语言也与台湾高山族一样,同属南岛语系。毛利人现有约30万人,占新西兰总人口的10%左右,他们多数是农民、牧民,拥有自己的土地、山林和海域, When it comes to New Zealand Maori, many people first thought of tattoos and snaps. Māori, an Aboriginal New Zealand island, is said to have moved their ancestors from the social archipelago of central Polynesia after the 10th century. Some scholars also inspected the location of Taibai clan doors and windows of the Amis people in Taiwan in China and the investigation on the structure of the building beams and columns. They believed that the Maori moved out of Taiwan more than 4,000 years ago, and their language is the same as that of the Gaoshan people in Taiwan. Both belong to the Austronesian language department. About 300,000 Maori people account for about 10% of the total population of New Zealand. Most of them are peasants and pastoralists and have their own land, forests and sea areas.