Introduction to Yingzuo Pavilion: It was built during the Shaosheng period of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was built because of Su Dongpo's "finger-cutting of two springs". At that time, the governor of Qiongzhou agreed that after Mr. Langlu tasted the floating millet spring water, he praised the sweetness of the spring water, so he built a pavilion next to the well spring. He often invited friends and colleagues to drink tea and compose poems on the pavilion. In June of the third year of Yuanfu (1100), Su Dongpo was pardoned and returned to the north. When he borrowed money to live in Jinsu, Lu Gong invited Su Dongpo to name the pavilion and compose a poem. Su Dongpo happily wrote "Poetry and Narration of Jingzuo Pavilion" impromptu. The pavilion was destroyed in the Ming Dynasty. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Weng Fanggang, the Qiongzhou academic envoy, rebuilt it on the original site. In the eighth year of Tongzhi (1869), the county governor Dai Zhaochen renovated the pavilion. The current Yingzuo Pavilion basically retains the style of its construction in the Qing Dynasty. "Poems and Narratives of Jingzuo Pavilion" engraved by Wang Guoxianzhong, a Hainan scholar in the Qing Dynasty, is now displayed in the stele gallery of Wugong Temple.

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