英文摘要:The purpose of this research is to analyze the folk narratives of the Paiwan to explore the sense of history. This research was collected as all of the folk narratives writings of the Paiwan as possible, and the researcher collected 14 different authors’ writings. The approach of this research was textural analysis. There are four points in this research included: 1.to explore the sense of history of the Paiwan’s folk narratives; 2.to explore the sense of time of the Paiwan’s folk narratives; 3.to explore the concept of human of the Paiwan’s folk narratives; 4.to find out kinds of collective memories of the Paiwan’s folk narratives. The conclusion of this research: 1. The origin of the Paiwan’s myths included five kinds of arguments: people were born from the egg of sun, the snake, the pottery, the bamboo and the stone. These different kinds of origin of myths were come from different Paiwan’s tribes, through tribes migrated and integrated. And these different kinds of origin of myths interpreted the existence and identity of one tribe, and represented the interpretation of one tribe’s history. 2. The sense of time of the Paiwan’s myths was provided with the change of time. The past was used to explain the present, and believed the development of history was circulated. 3. When explain appearance of things and causal relationship of things, the Paiwan’s myths believed that God’s Will was above human’s volition. Therefore, God’s Will controlled all changes. Human’s status was controlled by God, and via God’s choice human’s status will become extraordinary. 4. The subjective identification of the Paiwan was via different kinds of origin of myths to recall their forefathers to suppose what tribe they belong. Besides, via totem, sign, and name we may confirm different class’ identity. And the meeting of the Five-year festival was cohered the Paiwan’s consciousness of tribes and cultural identity.