The embossed shape uses the remnants of the Dashuifa Site in Xiyanglou and the forty-eight sacred inscriptions of the Yuanmingyuan to form a simple composition of form and text. The use of granite and blue-white stone, light and hair treatment, contrast in color and texture. The author deliberately highlights the three years of 1707, 1860, and 1900. The three annual rings of Yuanmingyuan record the traces of the modern history of the Chinese nation from strong to decay.