Yuan Mei
In the centuries since the giant stele project was abandoned, a number of Ming, Qing, and modern authors visited the site and left accounts of it. The poet Yuan Mei (1716 – 1797) expressed his feelings in "The Song of Hongwu's Great Stone Tablet" (), which concludes with "one hundred thousand camels could not move it!" (""). The poem is published in his collection "Xiao Cangshan Fang Wenji" ().