A lifelike cliff statue
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were 365 Tongtianyan, 438+05 caves and 359 statues. Statues are mainly distributed in Fogui Rock, Longhu Rock, Tongtian Rock and Cuiwei Rock. Among them, there are 1 arhats in the front of Fogui Rock, 6 arhats in the back, 3 arhats in Longhu Rock, and the rest are distributed in Tong Weiyan.
The existing cliff statues can be divided into four groups. One is eight Buddha statues located at the junction of Song Dynasty and Cuiweiyan, and the other eight were excavated in the late Tang Dynasty, which opened the earliest cliff statues. Among them, two Guanyin Buddha statues are the best preserved and have high historical value.
Second, the Pilu Zena Buddha and Manjusri Bodhisattva Pu Xian, which are located on the cliff of Tongtianyan and guarded by 500 arhats. This group of statues was unearthed in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, with the largest scale and the most magnificent momentum.
Third, the statue of eighteen arhats in a single niche, which was mainly revered by monks as a mirror, was unearthed in the late Northern Song Dynasty and is the essence of the cliff statue in Tongtianyan.
The fourth is the Maitreya Buddha statue built by Zhu in Cuiweiyan, which was unearthed in the early Southern Song Dynasty.
Looking at the cliff statues of Tongtianyan, in the early stage of the late Tang Dynasty, Bodhisattva statues dominated, and in the Song Dynasty, when Tongtianyan Grottoes flourished, Lohan statues dominated. The former obviously bears the legacy of northern Buddhist culture, while the latter is influenced by the powerful forces of Zen in Jiangxi.
Cliff stone carvings handed down from ancient times
There are more than 100 cliff stone carvings in Tongtianyan Scenic Area, which can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty and lasted for more than 900 years after the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. The earliest one was carved in the sixth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1073), and the latest one was carved in 1948. The fonts used in the inscriptions are mainly block letters and running scripts, and some of them use official script, cursive script and seal script. Stylistic forms include titles, inscriptions, poems, statues of Buddhist niches, couplets, plaques and auspicious words. Its content involves politics, history, religion, culture and other aspects, and it is a valuable material for studying China's calligraphy and stone carving art as well as local history.
The works with the largest number of words in Tongtianyan Cliff Stone Carvings are located in Longhuyan, with a full text of 406 words, which was carved in Jiading for ten years in the Southern Song Dynasty. The works with the least number of words are located on the stone wall next to Yaochi, and the longest works are located on the Dan cliff dozens of meters high in front of Fogui Rock. Magnificent, the sun and the moon fly, it was the Jian 'an in the second year of Xichun in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1 175).
Tongtianyan Cliff Stone Carvings are widely distributed in the scenic spot, starting from Guan Xinyan in the east of the scenic spot, along Wangguiyan, Longhuyan, Tongtianyan and Cuiweiyan, and ending at the ordinary tower in the west of the scenic spot. Among the cliff stone carvings of Tongtianyan, Hu Yi and Li Dazheng in Song Dynasty, Wang Yangming and Tang Bangzuo in Ming Dynasty are all excellent works, especially the inscriptions of Wang Yangming and Tang Bangzuo, especially a five-character poem "Forgetting to Return to the Rock" carved by Wang Yangming, which has a great influence on later inscriptions, and Tang Bangzuo's inscription is the best in Shujiang art.
Tongtianyan is one of the treasures of ancient southern art! Known as the largest group of stone statues in Jiangxi, Tongtianyan has many inscriptions, ranking first in Jiangxi. Tongtianyan Scenic Area has four characteristics: unique Danxia landform, pleasant ecological scenery, rich cultural relics and grotto art treasure house.
Tongtianyan is a scenic spot composed of typical Danxia landform.
Since ancient times, Tongtianyan Grottoes have been a tourist attraction integrating natural landscape and human landscape.
The adult ticket price of Tongtianyan Scenic Spot is 60 yuan/person, and 55 yuan is booked online.
Locals with local ID cards 30 yuan/person,
The main attraction Tongtianyan Grottoes was excavated in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Northern Song Dynasty. Up to now, 359 statues of stone niches from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty have been preserved, and the cliff carvings from the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China are 128. It is the largest grotto temple in the south of the Yangtze River and the southernmost grotto in China, so it is praised by experts as the first grotto in the south of the Yangtze River. Representative scenic spots include Forgetting Worry Rock, Guanxin Rock, Longhu Rock, Tiantong Rock and Cuiwei Rock. Thousands of years later, celebrities such as Su Dongpo, Wang Yangming and Jiang Jingguo poured in, making Tongtianyan famous at home and abroad.
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