Comparison of Longmen Grottoes and Dazu Rock Carvings
Dazu stone not only has a huge Buddhist statues and system integrity of the Taoist statues, as well as the grotto statues in the rare pure Confucian statues, and "three religions", "two teach" one of the sculpture is also a lot. Dazu stone carving of this cultural phenomenon as a physical example, reflecting the history of Chinese culture, Confucianism, Taoism, three long-term struggle and integration, to the Song Dynasty, "Kong, old, Sakya are holy", " The same way, the three religions are available "and" three religions confrontation "thought dominant position has been consolidated.
Dazu stone carvings, "where the Buddha contained, all prepared", in the art of "God's humanization and human deification" to achieve a high degree of unity.
Dazu stone carving through more than a thousand years, cross the Buddha and Confucianism, beautiful appearance, good rate of high. At the same time with the appearance of the various text, biblical, eulogy, notes and other stone inscriptions have more than 15 million words, and more than the history of stone to share, is a rare treasure of culture and art. Has a distinctive national characteristics, has a high historical, scientific and artistic value, in the history of ancient Chinese grotto art occupies a pivotal position, was hailed as the magic of the Oriental art pearl, is a genius of art, is a unique A treasure house of world cultural heritage.
December 1, 1999 at the 23rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee by the vote, the Chongqing Dazu Rock Carving in the North Mountain, Baoding Mountain, Nanshan, Shijingshan, Shimen Mountain five cliff statues, officially included The world cultural heritage, Chongqing Dazu stone into the "World Heritage List" ranks.
Dazu Rock Carving is located in Chongqing City, Sichuan Province, with Dazu County, Tongnan County, Tongliang County, Wushan County for the range, where you can enjoy on behalf of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty stone statue art. Dazu stone is Dazu County, the main performance for the cliff statue of the general term of the grotto art. Dazu stone carvings group of stone statues more than 70, a total of more than 100,000, which Baoding Mountain and Beishan cliff stone is the most famous, its Buddhist statues, Confucianism, Taoism and Chen, is a model of China's late cave statues , The scale of the grand, superb art, the rich content, with the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes, Longmen Grottoes par.
Dazu stone carvings are located in the mountains of mainland China, the past traffic inconvenience, survived the war of the catastrophe and man-made destruction, with high cultural relics, sculpture and tourism value, especially in the Beishan cliff stone and Baodingshan cliff stone most concentrated.
Beishan cliff (grotto) stone is located in the northwest of Dazu County two kilometers, cut in the Tang Dynasty Zhao Zong Jing Fuk the first year (892 years), after five generations, two songs, one after another in the Bay, Camp slope, Guanyin slope, Ear rock and other statues nearly ten thousand feet. Up to 500 meters, were compiled for the 290 niches cave. Which has a stele 6 pass, inscriptions and statues 55, the block 8, silver engraved line 1, stone statues 364 niches cave.
