What is the artistic value of Chongqing Dazu stone carving?

1. Chongqing Dazu stone carving is famous for its large scale, exquisite carving, diverse themes, rich connotations and complete preservation. It combines the essence of China's "three religions" sculpture art, namely Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, and becomes a bright pearl in China Grottoes art with its distinctive characteristics of nationalization and life. With a large number of physical images and written historical materials, this paper shows the features of China stone carving art and the development and changes of folk religious beliefs from different aspects from the end of the 9th century to the middle of13rd century, which has made important contributions to the innovative development of China stone carving art and has irreplaceable historical, artistic and scientific value. Many Europeans, especially the French, like Dazu stone carvings.

2. Dazu stone carving is the floorboard of grotto art in Dazu area, with cliff stone carving as its main feature. 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, a suburb of Chongqing, was founded in the first year of Tang Dynasty and was named after Dafeng Dazu. This is the world-famous "hometown of stone carving" and "hometown of hardware", the first batch of A-level open areas in China, the starting point of the Three Gorges tourist county determined by the state, the national advanced ecological agriculture area, and an important window for Chongqing to open to the outside world. Dazu District has a long history and rich cultural landscape and tourism resources. There are a large number of stone carvings in this area. There are as many as 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, and Dazu stone carvings are large in scale, beautifully carved, rich in content and distinctive in national characteristics, which have high historical, scientific and artistic value. It occupies a decisive position in the art history of ancient grottoes in China, and is praised as a magical pearl of oriental art, a unique treasure house of world cultural heritage, a tourist gold mine with great development potential and a good place for sightseeing at home and abroad.

Dazu stone carving was excavated in the first year of Tang Yonghui and flourished in the Song Dynasty. There are more than 50,000 existing cliff stone statues with an inscription of 65,438+10,000, covering more than 100. Among them, the most important stone carvings are Beishan, Baoding, Nanshan, Shimen and Shi Zhuan Mountain, which are the largest and most valuable stone carvings in Dazu.

4. Stone carvings are mainly Buddhist statues, and there are both Confucian and Taoist statues. It has the characteristics of grotto statues and belongs to the category of grotto art. The early "temple" structure was completely cliff statues, such as the statues of the Giant Buddha Bay, which were exposed and connected with the cliff, giving people a very intuitive feeling. Breaking through the shackles of some religions, the statue is more humanized. There are five carving forms: round sculpture, high relief, shallow relief, convex relief and female sculpture, but high relief is the main form, supplemented by other forms. There are not only countless people from all walks of life, but also countless social life scenes and a large number of written records, which is a vivid historical picture.