On June 19,1775, the Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty composed a poems after a tour of the Lion Forest Garden. Huang Xuan, the most well-known scholar of that time, had them inscribed on the stele to perpetuate the memory. The stele stood to the north of the wistaria in the Qing Dynasty and was set in the wall of the pavilion connecting a walkway in the early years of the Nationalist Republic when the Beis repaired the garden.