Late Taiwanese forestry expert Liu Chin described these few remaining trees as "dying of loneliness." It seems that when abandoned by the companions they had relied on for millennia, and left to face the rigors of their environment alone, these ancient survivors went into terminal decline.
台灣林業界前輩柳榗曾經形容，倖存的檜木是「寂寞致死」，它們彷彿被相依相持千年的同伴離棄，孤獨承受環境壓力，千年不壞的神木也奄奄一息。