Different cultures bring with them different ways of seeing things. "People's understanding of the mountains differs from period to period in Taiwan history and can be classified into several stages," explains Sun Ta-chuan by way of analysis. In the very beginning the Aborigines 'interaction with the mountains was of a religious nature. The high mountains were places where their ancestors lived and they possessed a good deal of spiritual significance.
異文化果然帶來不同的觀察角度：「台灣在不同時代，人們對山的理解，可分為幾個階段，」孫大川分析，最初，原住民與山的互動是宗教性的，高山是祖先的居所、族群的發源地，具有相當的神聖性。