Reading Rock in Zhaoping

　　The Reading Rock is situated on the mountainside of Chuanyan Mountain in Zhanglin Village. It was once where Lin Tinggan, a government-sponsored scholar during the Qing Dynasty, taught students, hence the name "Reading Rock." The cave is divided into left, middle, and right chambers. To reach the middle chamber, one must climb up a winding path from the mountainside. In front of the middle chamber is a stone wall, and the interior is flat, able to accommodate 30 to 50 people sitting at long tables. To the left, passing through a passage formed between stone pillars made of stalagmites and stalactites, you will enter the left chamber. This chamber is about twice as wide as the middle one and can be further divided into an inner room and an outer room, making it suitable for classrooms for two different grades. Turning right from the middle chamber, you will immediately see three striking regular-script characters meaning "Fairy’s Book Collection" (a phrase indicating the place where immortals store their books), each character about two square feet in size. These characters, carved on a corridor-like stone wall, were inscribed by Ye Heshan from Meizhou, Guangdong. Passing through the corridor, you will enter the right chamber, which opens up surprisingly spacious. The stone surface here is smooth as a mirror, and it is here that numerous inscriptions and poems by literati throughout the dynasties are gathered. Visitors often stop to admire and recite them. All three chambers face south, receive ample sunlight, and offer a cool summer and warm winter.