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the  river water and rain, its surface became uneven  and looked like a mask, dubbed “dry face”. In early  Ming Dynasty, the city wall of Nanjing extended  here. Since the steep “dry face” cliff was a natural  barrier, the city wall was integrated with the cliff.  At present, Stone City is open as a park, becoming  one of the symbols of old Nanjing.

He  wrote an article entitled “Record of Yuejiang  Tower”, but no tower was ever built. In 2001,  Yuejiang Tower was built. It is bright and colorful, and it became one of the city landmarks.

In 2003, it was included in the  World Heritage List. The Xiaoling Tomb of the  Ming Dynasty is the sole world cultural heritage  site in Nanjing, and it established the standard for  imperial mausoleums of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Besides the main buildings of the Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty, the scenic spots  also include the Tomb of Prince Zhu Biao, the  Tomb of Sun Quan, Meihua Mountain, Chiang  Kai-shek’s burial site the Righteousness Pavilion,  the Altar of Six Dynasties and the newly-built  Plum Blossom Valley, etc, taking the culture of  the Ming Dynasty and the culture of ecological  leisure as the main. Meihua Mountain is south of  the Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty.

In two years, they cut three huge pieces  of stele materials: the pedestal of the stele was 17  meters high, 29.5 meters wide, 12 meters thick  and 16,250 tons in weight; the body of the stele  51 meters high, 14.2 meters wide, 4.5 meters  thick and 8,799 tons in weight; and the top part  of the stele was 10.3 meters high, 22 meters wide,  10 meters thick and 6,118 tons in weight. Piled  up, the three pieces would form a huge stele as  high as 78 meters, equal to a 28-storey building  in height. The combined stele even exceeded  30,000 tons. It would be a world wonder. Now,  the Yangshan stele material has been formally  included in the Guinness World Records.