When was the Dazu stone carving in Chongqing?

Chongqing Dazu stone carving was built in the early Tang Dynasty.

Dazu Stone Carving is located in Dazu District, Chongqing. There were chisels in the Tang, Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties, and they continued to be chiseled in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Now it is a world cultural heritage and one of the eight largest grottoes in the world. Dazu Stone Carving is a religious cliff carving in the late Tang Dynasty and early Song Dynasty, with Buddhist themes as the main theme, especially the cliff statues in Beishan Mountain and Baoding Mountain. It is the most famous ancient stone carving art in China. Grotto art originated in ancient India was introduced to China in the 3rd century, around the 5th century and the 7th century (Wei-Jin to Tang Dynasty).

There were two sculpture peaks in northern China, but they declined in the middle of the eighth century (after Tang Tianbao). In this case, cliff statues in Dazu County, located in the Yangtze River valley, have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. From the end of the 9th century to the middle of13rd century, Dazu Stone Carvings, represented by the "Wuyue" Cliff Statue, formed another statue peak in the art history of China Grottoes, thus continuing the art history of China Grottoes for more than 400 years.

The Cultural Value of Dazu Stone Carvings;

Chongqing Dazu stone carving is famous for its large scale, exquisite carving, diverse themes, rich connotations and complete preservation. It combines the essence of the carving art of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism in China, and has become a bright pearl in China's grotto art with its distinctive characteristics of nationalization and life. It shows the style of China stone carving art and the development and changes of folk religious beliefs from different aspects with a large number of physical images and written historical materials.

It has made important contributions to the innovation and development of stone carving art in China, and has irreplaceable historical, artistic and scientific value in the past grottoes. Many Europeans, especially the French, like Dazu stone carvings. Dazu stone carving is the floorboard of the grotto art in Dazu area, which is mainly based on cliff sculpture. Dazu is the hometown of stone carving. There are more than 40 stone carvings and more than 50,000 statues in the county. Among them, there are two most famous and largest places, one is Baoding Mountain and the other is Beishan Mountain.

These two places are national key cultural relics protection units, and they are representative works of grotto art after the late Tang Dynasty in China. Dazu County is a suburban county under the jurisdiction of Chongqing, dotted with 75 cliff statues announced as cultural relics protection units, with more than 50,000 statues and an inscription of 65,438+10,000 words. Among them, there are 6 national key cultural relics protection units.