The Qianlong Imperial Stele in Tangqi is located on the west side of the Jesus Church on Shuibei Street on the north bank of Guangji Bridge in Tangqi Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, within the site of the original Water Conservancy Judge’s Office of Hangzhou Prefecture. The imperial stele was erected on the second day of the first lunar month in the sixteenth year of Emperor Qianlong (1751). This stele is as high as 3.35 meters, 1.4 meters wide, and 0.5 meters thick. The stele body is added with a stele forehead engraved with a stone carving of two dragons scrambling for a pearl, which is 1 meter high and 1.5 meters wide. Under the stele body is a stele base. The unearthed height of the stele base is 1.1 meters, 1.8 meters wide, and 1 meter thick. The total height of the stele above the ground reaches 5.45 meters. The main text of the stele has 429 characters and 10 words at the end. The stele is open all year round and all day long.
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