Abstract: The authenticity of history books has always been complicated and embarrassing. As the first-hand data, stone carving documents are not intended to be false, reflecting the objective historical facts, which have the function of supplementing and explaining the handed down documents. This paper takes yushi as an example, and by sorting out the use of the national name and the year number at the time of the change of dynasties, it focuses on showing the historical value of stone carving documents.

Key words: stone carving literature, title of a reigning dynasty, the title of an emperors reign, The languages stone