1. The author of "The Story of Yueyang Tower" is Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), courtesy name Xiwen, Han nationality, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty
and a native of Wuxian County, Suzhou (now part of Jiangsu).
2. Written on September 15, the sixth year of Qingli in the Northern Song Dynasty (1046), at the request of my friend Teng Zijing, the governor of Baling County, after the Yueyang Tower was rebuilt.