To control farmland annexation and resulting social crisis by the end of Western Han, Wang Mang, a nephew of the empress dowager who deposed four-year-old Han emperor and usurped the throne in 8 AD, restored land nationalization of Zhou. The new law prescribed that a household of eight male members or less could have maximum nine hectares of farmland, giving away any surplus to relatives or neighbors. This boundary stone recorded someone giving up his land:

On February 23, the third year of Tianfeng (16 AD), Lai Zihou distributed this land, which can feed a hundred people, to his clansmen. Do not vandalize.

The stone block was discovered in 1817 by chance by some sightseers of Tiger Mountain, Zou County, with all of its 35 characters, the largest character count in a fistful inscribed stones form Western Han, well preserved. The style of the inscription is as casual as those found on many thousands of official documents on bamboo and wooden slips from the same period. Some epigraphers deemed this work the scratch of some countryman, lacking of deeper interest, while others held it the indispensable model of antique calligraphy. “We seem more capable than our forefathers, but of simplicity,” said Wang Jince, a scholar-calligrapher of Qing, referring to this inscription.