One tale relates how two hundred years ago a thirty meter red cedar sprouted suddenly from the water at Sun Moon Lake. A local woman dreamed that she became its wife, and soon after she gave birth to a boy, named Ku- tsung.
相傳二百年前，在日月潭的東方，突然長出一棵高出水面卅尺的茄苳神木，一位山中婦女夢見自己和神木結為夫婦，不久便產下一子，命名「骨宗」。