Introduction to the Stele Corridor: The third courtyard behind the Jiaying Gate is the main courtyard of the Nanyue Temple, which is composed of the Imperial Library, the main hall, the bedroom and the east-west corridor. The east-west corridor is now a stele gallery, with 329 poems and essays written by famous writers, a total of 333 vertical steles, plus incised images of "Famous Tours of the Forty-Two Peaks" such as Xie Lingyun of Jin Dynasty and "Seventy-Two Peaks of Nanyue"; There are a total of 402 steles, forming a stele corridor surrounding the temple, which is very spectacular. Among them, the replica of the "Eternal Yu Stele" on Mount Hengshan in Nanyue attracts the most attention.

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