Originally, a trail was built by the Atayal people passed near Dayuling. During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, the Governor-General of Taiwan, Sakuma Samata, ordered the construction of a road through the same trail as part of the five years plan to governing aborigines to better transport supplies in the Truku War. After the change of power to the Kuomingtang, the Nationalist government began building the Central Cross-Island Highway between 1956 and 1960. Chiang Kai-shek visited the pass in 1958, renaming the site as "Dayuling" after the story of Great Flood of Gun-Yu (Gun-Yu is alternatively known as Dayu) as a reference to the difficult construction. Dayuling is located within a stratum known as the Dayuling Formation (大禹嶺層), a subset of the Bilu Formation (畢祿山層). The stratum was first identified by geologist Zhaoxia Chen (陳肇夏) in 1979. The 2,200 meter thick layer is composed of slate, phyllite, and quartzite. Nummulite fossils were found near Dayuling, the first in Taiwan. Due to the foliation of the rock, the construction of Hehuanshan Tunnel at Dayuling proved to be difficult and prone to collapse. Sir Alexander Gilmour, 3rd Baronet  Sir Alexander Gilmour, 3rd Baronet (c.1737-92), of Craigmillar, Edinburgh was a Member of Parliament for Edinburghshire 12 January 1761 - 1774. Ary Malik  Nurita Maliha Aryanee "Ary" Abdul Malik (October 16, 1971 – February 28, 2017) was a Malaysian actress and television personality, and sister of singer Min Malik. Throughout her two decades of entertainment career, Ary is best known as a VJ on MTV and became one of the first contestants of MasterChef Malaysia. She died on February 28, 2017 after a year of battling ovarian cancer. Ary was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur. Her father was a military pensioner. Her younger sister, Yasmin Malik or better known as Min Malik is a famous singer of the 90s, Min popular with the song "Flora Cinta". She married creative director Shahrul Nizam Shahruddin or Sha Bromo from Singapore in 1997, and was they had three daughters Nuhr Zoe Iman (born 1998), Dinda Pelangi Timor (born 2004) and Ratu Chinta Mecca (born 2006).