A well known folk song has the lines: "One, two, three we're in Taiwan, Taiwan has a Mt. Ali .... The girls on Mt. Ali are as beautiful as water, the young men as strong as mountains ...." The very name Mt.
「一、二、三到台灣，台灣有個阿里山......」、「...... 阿里山的姑娘美如水啊，阿里山的少年壯如山......」，拜歌謠、俚語之賜，「阿里山」的名號響徹雲霄，眾所皆知的，十二億大陸人對台灣最熟悉的地名，也就是「阿里山」、「日月潭」了。