"There's an early record of the Chienshan site's discovery," says former principal Cheng Ming-chih, a 70-year resident of Tayuan who went to work at the primary school immediately after graduating from junior college. "But the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act hadn't yet been written when the 1952 dig got underway. That meant that there was no way to apply to have the site designated a heritage site.
「尖山遺址很早就有發現記載，但民國 41 年挖掘時，文化資產法尚未通過，因此無法申請為縣定古蹟。