Dazu Rock Carvings
Dazu rock carvings situated in Chongqing, Sichuan, spreading in Dazu. Tongnian Tongliang, Anyue county, with the distance to Chengdu of 200 kilometers. Here you can enjoy the rock varvings art of Tang and Song dynasty. Dazu stone carvings in Dazu county is the main territory Cliff performance figures for the grotto art of customers. There are 70 places with sculptures more than 100,000., of which Grotto Hill and Beishan rock carvings are the most famous. The Buddha carvings are the representatives of the grotto carvings art with of its grand scale, carving arts superb, rich in content, which enjoys equal popularity with Mo Kao Grotto at Dunhuang, the Yungang and Longmen Grottoes. On the UNESCO world heritage conference on 1st December,1999, Northern Hill , Baoding hill, Southern Hill, Shizhuan hill ,Shimen hill cliffs were listed into world cultural heritage .Dazu rock carvings are the excellent representatives of Chinese rock carvings art in later period, which have been the huge series of well preserved rock carvings till now. On the basis of absorbing the essence of former rock carvings, Dazu rock carvings have thrown away the cliché and invented the innovations and take a daily life style, having been a representative of rock carvings of influent Chinese characterized style.

The Buddha Bay statues are concentrated in Northern Rock carvings, which are 300 meters long. There are 290 cave shrines on the precipice which are seven meters high. Buddha bay statuses are carved meticulously and uniquely with handsome and free gestures. The Buddha Bay are divided into south and north two areas, with works in late Tang dynasty and Five dynasties in the south , with works in two Song dynasties in the north. The works in the late Tang dynasty are those who were elegant and full, with plain dress and smooth lines. The works in the five dynasties are those who were exquisite, colorful, the dressings are turning from simple to complex, gradually getting rid of the effect of alien culture, putting on the characteristics of rock carvings in the transitional period. The works of the two Song dynasties are prominent for the national features.

Baoding hill carvings are 15 kilometers from the northeast of Dazu county which were built in South Song dynasty(1179-1249 AD),proceeded for 70 years with 13 rock carvings, thousands of statues, in which the Big Buddha and Small Buddha are the biggest .There are huge series of carvings which are composed of 19 suites of Buddhist stories with 15000 well invented statues, all of which are of no similarities. Baodingyuanjue hole are carved from whole stone into as a spacious room. There are three Buddhists with different gestures in the front precipice of the hole, their clothes and muscles are very true. There are pavilions, human and animals, flowers and trees, quiet springs and strange stones all carved as realist works, all of these are the essence of the Big Buddha Bay carvings. There are 30 pictures of huge carvings, their main subjects are Buddhist stories with description carved as Buddhist scripture and ode. All these are like a comic with pictures and descriptions different from the other rock carvings in China.