"Hot Springs Name" is a running script inscription written by Emperor Taizong for Lishan Hot Springs, and "Hot Springs Name" is a masterpiece of running script. This monument was built in the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, that is, one year before Taizong died. The original stone has long since disappeared, and it is all rubbings. The rubbings of the Tang Dynasty discovered in Dunhuang Grottoes during Guangxu period in the late Qing Dynasty are now in the Paris Library of France.
The full name of Jinci Inscription is Jinci Inscription and Preface, and the imperial book Jinci Inscription and Preface written by Taizong is 195 cm high and 120 cm wide. There are 24 lines of calligraphy in Guan Zhen Bao Han Hall of Jinci Temple in Taiyuan, Shanxi, totaling 1203 words. This is the earliest calligraphy inscription discovered by China so far, and it is also the only calligraphy original handed down by Emperor Taizong and Li Shimin. The preface to Jinci inscription is regarded by later calligraphers as a calligraphy work second only to the preface to Lanting.