Plains Aborigines were poorer on average than Han in Tainan County [28,44]. However, plains Aborigines were economically better off in Jibeishua than Danei, owing to agricultural conditions. Danei was partly rich flood plains with paddy agriculture, dominated by Han, and partly foothills with limited irrigation, where most of the plains Aborigine minority lived. Jibeishua was on the Jianan plain, surrounded by paddy fields