On the west side of the tower, under the eaves, there is a two-meter-high stone tablet with four cursive characters of "Flying Liu Xia Yun", which was written by Zhang Xu, a grass sage in the Tang Dynasty, in the ninth year of Kaiyuan. These four cursive characters were originally carved on the four megalithic faces of Qujing City. According to legend, they were the literati and calligrapher in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, and Song, governor of Hubei Province, printed them from other provinces in Jiaqing period. Jianshui was written by Guangxu.

During the reign of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, Wang Chuishu, a calligrapher and Eight Duke of Jianshui, was admitted to the first-class magistrate in Ding Younian, Guangxu (1885). During Guangxu period, he served as an official in Tongzi, Yinjiang, Weining, Chishui and Zhenfeng in Guizhou.

In the 25th year of Guangxu, he returned to his hometown from Weining, passing through Qujing, and saw the "Flying Rhyme" font with smooth brushwork and extraordinary charm. He appreciates it very much. With the help of his entourage, he personally printed the book. When he returned to his hometown, he asked Liu Feng, a famous calligrapher in Jianshui, to engrave on four square plaques about six feet and five inches high. In Guangxu's new and ugly year (190 1), he returned to his hometown and personally led Jianshui's "official gentleman" to set up his plaque under the west eaves of the East Gate Tower.

Appreciation of "Flying Clouds"

"Flying Rhyme", these four characters of wild grass, are free and easy in shape, like flowing clouds and flowing water, and the pen is continuous, like dragons and snakes scurrying away. Later generations gave it such a metaphor: "flying, like a champion fight, with both form and spirit"; "Summer is like overlord, it is heroic"; "Flow like a toad with bangs, carefree"; Clouds, like fairy scattered flowers, dance.

Jianshui Chaoyang Building is more magnificent under the embellishment and foil of famous inscriptions. Watching famous inscriptions can cultivate people's mood and give people a kind of beautiful enjoyment, as if people are traveling in a world of scrolls and their feelings are in calligraphy and painting.