Stone Room • Live as long as Mt Nan

Mt Nan is full of strange stones, which are distributed along the mountain in a perfect sequence, which looks like a collection of villages and houses from afar. So in those years, the county magistrate Zhou Kang took a boat along the coastal patrol Mt Nan, a distant view of the mountain, thought the mountain lived in a trance, docked to visit, but found that the original is a large stone; this large stone is called after the stone room.

The stone room next to the "Shou" monument is the imperial pen of Empress Dowager Cixi, but also Sanya's key protection of cultural relics, with a height of 2.76 meters, 1.1 meters wide, and 0.3 meters thick. "Shou" is carved in the middle of the monument, with a height of 1.45 meters and a width of 0.68 meters. "Shou" character in the middle of the top forehead is engraved with a five-inch square Cixi seal. "Shou" right inscribed: "Guangxu twenty-ninth year September 28, Cixi Duanyou Kang Yi Zhuo Yuzhuang Cheng Shou Gong Qin Xian Chong Empress Dowager sixty thousand life imperial pen. The right side of the word "Ci" the "Shou" word below the inscription of the full text, and the "Shou" word on the lower left side of the inscription said: "Your Servant, Wang Huan. "

According to Yazhou Zhi records, the "Shou" monument engraved in the Qing dynasty Guangxu 28 (1902), the monument for the "Wang Huan", Hunan Xiangxiang, was good at painting. On Cixi's 60th birthday (1894), the Guangxu emperor appreciated his painting skills, ordered him to paint the Longevity Screen. Wang Huan's paintings, albums, and fans were all appreciated by Cixi and Emperor Guangxu. In the year of Guangxu Xinchou (1901), Wang Huan became the governor of Yazhou and engraved the word "shou" in Cixi's imperial handwriting on a monument in its original form. In order to place the "Shou" character on the monument, Wang Huan also created the Tongshantang. After the Tongshantang was destroyed, the "Shou" monument was re-erected in Dongtian Park in 1994. The word "Mt Nan" next to the "Shou" monument was inscribed by Zhao Puchu, the president of China's famous Buddhist Association.