Wenyou Mountain Villa is said to be the place where Qin Guan, a famous poet of Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), engaged in his scholarship.

The villa is renowned because Su Shi, a poet and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty (960-1297), when passing through Gaoyou, held drinking and poem-writing parties there along with Qin Guan and other poets including Sun Jue and Wang Gong.

Later their poems were engraved by the famous stone-engraver, Qian Yong, on the walls of the Wenyou Terrace at the hill top. The terrace walls also collect the calligraphies by Su Dongpo, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei, Qing Shaoyou, Zhao Zi'ang and Dong Qichang.