Memorial Stele for Su Song
Su Song (1020-1101) was a high official and expert on astronomy and material medica. His native place was Nan'an, Quanzhou ( now Fujian province), but he moved to Danyang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province). He was a member of the committee that edited the Shennong Canon of Materia Medica, Supplemented and Annotated in the jiayou Era (lia you bu zhu Shen nong ben cao.1057) and the Illustrated Canon of Materia Medica (Ben cao tu ring, 1062). The stele was erected in 1880.