There are three forms of cursive script in Chinese calligraphy - draft, modern and wild. This inscription is in draft-cursive script, which came first into being around the 1st century BC to speed handwriting of clerical script.

This work was the handwriting of Huang Xiang, a skilled calligrapher of Wu Kingdom, 222 - 280 AD. None of the artist's original writings survived, and this one was inscribed in 1439. Executed in steady and straightforward brushstroke, the inscription has been the standard script of the category. The text of the inscription is the Book One of children's primer in Han dynasty. The textbook contains 1,394 unrepeated and non-contextually related characters, and the first two characters in the text gave the title of the book.