on the front line During the Ching dynasty and the Japanese occupation, to provide access to Eastern Taiwan, soldiers were sent to cut 30 or 40 paths through Taiwan's mountains. Some of them are now the routes of today's highways, but the majority long ago became overgrown, and faded back into the mists of the enigmatic mountains.
清朝與日據時代，由於經營後山（台灣東部）的需要，派兵在台灣山區開拓近三、四十條道路，有一些已成為今天公路的前身，但有更多卻早已湮沒於荒煙蔓草、虛無飄渺的山間。