Half the mountain is missing, to be sure, but it wasn't sliced away by an immortal. Mt. Panping was quarried intensively in the 1960s and 70s to supply the construction crews building Taiwan's freeway system.
半屏山在民國五、六○年代開採水泥，高速公路旁漫天揚塵，以供應台灣多數水泥原料的需求而名噪一時。