No one is certain when the pathway was discovered, and by whom, but Chen Shan remarks that his forebears knew of it once they had moved across to the island, and reckons that it must have been used for at least a hundred years.
由誰發現？現在已不可考。陳善表示，他的祖先遷移至此後，就知道利用這條步道，算算已有百餘年歷史。