On the first pillar, there is a copy of Yu Shinan, a calligrapher in the early Tang Dynasty. On the second pillar, a copy of Chu Suiliang is engraved; On the third pillar, a replica of Feng Chengsu is engraved; On the fourth pillar, the original preface to Lanting Collection by Liu Zongyuan, a famous writer in the Tang Dynasty, is engraved. On the fifth pillar, the original preface to Lanting Collection by Liu Gongquan, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty, is engraved. On the sixth pillar, Yu Minzhong, a scholar of A Qing Qianlong, is engraved with the Lanting que pen for Liu Gongquan. On the seventh column, Amin painter Dong Qichang copied Liu Gongquan's Preface to Lanting Collection. On the eighth column, Emperor Qianlong copied the Preface of Lanting Collection written by Dong Qichang Liu Gongquan.
The Eight Columns of Lanting and the Monument of Lanting are the old things of the pavilion of "Sitting on the Stone Tide" in Yuanmingyuan, and now they are the important parts of the pavilion of "Amethyst Tiancheng" in Zhongshan Park.