It turned out that during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, a county magistrate named Wu came to Yueyang. As soon as he took office, he took a fancy to the carved screen of Yueyang Tower and bribed a master of folk art carving with a large sum of money. It took 17 months to carefully copy and secretly copy the screen.
Two years later, Wu Zhifu took advantage of the opportunity of transferring from Yueyang Tower to steal the column. On a stormy night, he escaped with the original carved screens of Xiao Jia and Zhang Zhao. Unexpectedly, when the ship arrived at Caoqing Lake, the sky suddenly changed and the wind was blowing hard. All the Wuxian families were buried in the belly of fish, 12 carved screen, three of them sank into the water, and nine of them went with the flow, colliding with each other and sinking into Dongting Lake. And the fake hanging in Yueyang Tower, because of exquisite workmanship, no one found it.
Later, the lake was dry and shallow, and the original carved screen of Yueyang Tower was discovered by fishermen and salvaged, which accidentally damaged the word "Song Mutual" on the eighth board and the word "Le" on the tenth board. Wu, a local scribe, bought the carved screen from fishermen for 120 silver. It took him three years to copy the handwriting of a photo before he made up three broken words.
After many years, the original carved screen of Yueyang Tower finally returned to Yueyang Tower completely. However, because there is already a carved screen in the lobby on the first floor of Yueyang Tower, people put the original in the pavilion on the second floor.