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深入消逝的採樟村落…找尋50年前生活的足跡
白雪村，又名水山村，座落在嘉義縣阿里山鄉北霞山東南方，地處楠梓仙溪上游博博猶溪西岸的一小塊台地上。日治時代居民以提煉樟腦為生，挑至新高口，藉鐵路或通往高雄三民的樟腦道運出，全盛時期全村有百餘人。在臺灣的樟腦業逐漸沒落，村裡對外交通又極為不便，居民陸續遷出，白雪村從此走入了歷史，連在地圖上都消失了。

Tracing Forgotten Footsteps in Baixue Village – A Vanishing Camphor Hamlet
Tucked away in the mountains of Alishan Township, Baixue Village—also known as Shuishan Village—once stood as a vibrant community during Taiwan’s camphor-boiling era.
Located on a remote plateau along the western bank of the Boboyou Stream, upstream of the Nanzixian River, this tiny settlement thrived under Japanese rule. Villagers extracted camphor from trees and carried the precious resin down to Niitaka-kuchi (today’s Tataka), where it was transported via railway or along the old camphor trade route to Kaohsiung.
At its peak, over a hundred people called this mountain village home.
But as Taiwan’s camphor industry faded and the area remained isolated without proper roads, families slowly moved away. Baixue Village eventually vanished—not just from maps, but from memory.
Today, what remains are forest-covered ruins and a haunting sense of time standing still. Hiking here means walking through the echoes of a forgotten life, piecing together stories from moss-covered stone walls, camphor tree roots, and abandoned trails.
If you’re the kind of traveler who seeks not just scenery, but stories — Baixue will move you.