The Taiwan red cypress witnessed Taiwan's birth, squeezed up by the collision of two tectonic plates, and its progress from a fragile mass of broken rock to a more stable geology. It has also witnessed the rise and fall of Taiwan's forestry industry.
紅檜見證了台灣島從板塊擠壓誕生後，地體由破碎而逐漸穩定的過程，也見證了一頁台灣林業發展的滄桑史。