Unfortunately in 1935 a major earthquake shook Kuantao Mountain, destroying the bridge. They built a new bridge alongside it, but the broken buttresses of the old bridge have their own kind of dilapidated beauty. There is a house next to a buttress of the old bridge.
可惜一九三五年台灣百年來最大的關刀山大地震使它毀於一旦，只得在附近另建新橋，不過斷裂的橋墩卻也造就了另一種殘缺的美感，仍然十分迷人。