This paper attempts to explore Tao (Yami) ancestral landscape and the local narratives about historic events associated with rich emotion. We found that affixation and reduplication of linguistic morpheme are often used in word formation of Tao place names. Tao people frequently use emotional reminders such as verb affixation and noun combination to refer to a strong feeling of ancestral rites, emphasize their sacred characteristics, and inscribe their wonderful resource of plants and animals upon historic landscape by past human activities. The embedded contexture of Tao ancestral migration pathway and the highlighted famous stories in legends reflect a unique emotional feature of Austronesian topogeny. In the classification of emotion upon landscape, the keystone place markers include: 1. mi- verb affixation inscribes the past ritual places mythically, making ancestral movements vivid upon daily subsistence practice. 2. ika- verb affixation inscribes the past ”emotional journeys”, in which are full of certain fears and the following healing practice, referring to meaningful sites in the present. 3. anito spirits mark the moral norm upon ancestral landscape in the form of metaphors regarding past disasters. 4. Place naming among the Tao can also adopt metonyms, in that ecological images of plants, fish, animals, and environmental resources are culturally deployed in order to refer to a whole system rooted in past memory. This emotional phenomenon of extensive use of verb affixation and noun metonymy is deeply influenced by the indigenous perceptions of history, uniquely reflecting their world views that healing agency provides a significant process between human body and immediate nature, in which emotional landscape demonstrates the reference and norm between past memory and present practice in the Tao society.