The Forest of Steles in Xi'an was first built in 1087.Located at the site of the Confucian Temple in Sanxue Street, Xi'an. It is a courtyard-styled structure. It covers an area of 30000 square meters with 8 exhibition rooms, 8 corridors, and 8 pavilions. Altogether 2,420 blocks of famous stone tablets of the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the successive dynasties were collected in the forest. 1089 stone tablets are on display. There is a huge mount of the ancient literature works and documentation, among which the Kaicheng Inscriptions of Classics on Stone alone covers 114 tablets with 0.65 million Chinese characters. It is not only a treasure house of ancient Chinese calligraphy, but also a rich collection of China¡¯s historical documents and records and stone carving patterns.