The monthly world topography of Zuozhen District of Tainan City is well-known. Among them, “Erliao Sunrise” is the most popular. Here is he name of Erliao comes from. It turned out that some people came to the present day view of Kiosk, unexpectedly discovered that there is a natural sunrise here, stunning, to inform others but do not know their names, because there are two nearby workers, they will call this Erliao line was passed on. According to word of mouth, the name of the Erliao is still in use.​

The Erliao Sunrise is one of the three large low-rise sunrise spots in Taiwan. It's only 185 meters above sea level and relatively has a stable weather, together with the special geological landscape adjacent to chalk soil