Here, the Cangya stone wall is towering and abrupt, stretching for 78 meters and the highest point is more than 30 meters. It is a natural place for cliff stone carving.
More than 65,438+0,200 years ago, Jie Yuan, a famous writer in the Tang Dynasty, gave up his job of secretariat in Daozhou and returned to his hometown. When he passed by, he saw the beautiful scenery here, so he lived here and named an unnamed stream "Wuxi", which means "Jason Wu is unique" and wrote "Wuxi Ming". The name of Wuxi began from this.
Yuan Jie also named the "strange stone" more than 20 feet northeast of Wuxi as "abutment" and wrote an inscription for the abutment. In Xikou, a pavilion named "Guangwu Pavilion" was built on a different stone pavilion "more than 60 feet high", which came from "Ming Yi".
Later, Jie Yuan handed the "Three Carvings" to three seal writers, Ji Kang, Qu and Yuan Zi. They wrote with the seal of the jade seal, hanging needle and Zhong Ding, and carved them on the cliff of Wuxi, which was later called "Three Carvings of Wuxi", also known as "Old Carvings". These three monuments are of high artistic value.
In addition, in 76 1 year, Yuan Jie invited Yan Zhenqing to write the article Ode to the Great Tang Dynasty, and in 77 1 year, he carved it on a natural cliff beside the Xiangjiang River in Wuxi. Because of its strange words and rocks, it was praised as "the three wonders of Wuxi".