清代臺灣番俗圖以圖文并茂的形式呈現了臺灣少數民族的形象、風俗、生計,其視覺表現形式與傳統帝國華夷觀、清代臺灣邊疆的社會歷史狀況相互呼應。作為對臺灣邊疆"他者"想象與再現的藝術形式,番俗圖不只隱含著中央朝廷控制和管理臺灣邊疆的政策信息,也隱約揭示了漢番融合發展的歷史痕跡

The image, customs, and living of a borigines had been presented by illustrations of aborigines in Qing Taiwan,which echoing the Hua-Yi order and social history of Qing Taiwan frontier. As an art form of imagination and reappear to " the Other" in Taiwan frontier, illustrations of aborigines not only implied policy information of central government but also revealed traces of history interaction between Han and aborigines