After Chongqing was directly under the central government, Anyue became the "first stone carving county" in Sichuan. The famous aesthetic critic Mr. Wang Chaowen praised Anyue's stone carving as "ancient, different, refined and beautiful, and its artistic level is first-class in the country." Ms. Han, a Chinese writer, praised: "I have been to many countries and seen many stone carvings. This is the first time I have seen them. " As a link between Yungang and Dazu, Anyue Stone Carving has been listed as an opportunity of world cultural heritage by Dazu Stone Carving, and now it is declared as a "relay" for its expansion. However, the "national treasure" with thousands of years of history, no matter how gorgeous, cannot be as magnificent and famous as Dunhuang; Far less popular than Dazu stone carvings. For decades, she has been as shy and lonely as a girl hiding in a boudoir. ...
On September 18, 2002, the Ministry of Culture officially named Anyue County as "the hometown of folk stone carving art in China". On May 18 this year, the National Tourism Administration rechecked Anyue Stone Carving as a national AAA-level tourist area. The profound cultural and artistic connotation and tourism value of Anyue stone carving began to shine. To this end, the person in charge of the county government of Anyue County said that it is imperative to make full use of the advantages of natural resources in the hometown of stone carving art and strive to make Anyue stone carving into a boutique on the tourist ring road in southern Sichuan. So someone joked: "The stone carving woman should have been married a long time ago"!
Anyue Stone Carving, which was founded in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, enjoys an important position in China as a link between Dunhuang, Yungang, Longmen Grottoes and Dazu Stone Carving. Known as "another treasure house of ancient stone carving in China" and a veritable "hometown of stone carving art". Anyue stone carvings are large in scale, with more than 65,438+10,000 cliff stone carvings alone. Mainly Buddhist statues, both Taoist statues and religious arts, most of which are cliff statues and some stone statues. When the reporter walked into Anyue stone carving group, he was immediately shocked by exquisite carving, skillful knife work and unique stone carving art. The cliff stone carvings with different expressions seemed to tell an old story and make people daydream.
According to experts who study Anyue stone carving art, there are many classic works in Anyue stone carving group: 23 meters long, 3 meters wide at the shoulder and 3. 1 meter long at the head? The largest siddhattha gotama in the world. There are more than 400,000 words of engraved scriptures, which are unique in China and rare in the world. They are known as "national treasures". There are nearly 20 kinds of well-preserved and clearly identifiable main scriptures in the Tibetan Sutra Cave, and the scriptures are finely carved, which is an important historical document for studying the history of Buddhist classics and calligraphy in China and correcting the versions of Buddhist scriptures. Purple bamboo Guanyin in Piludong is also called "Venus of the East".
As a large agricultural county, Anyue's stone carving tourism resources have not been rationally developed, and some fine stone carvings have been seriously weathered and man-made damage has been serious. Recently, when people realized that it was not enough to develop the county economy only by agriculture, the stone carving of Anyue, a "boudoir bitter girl" who had been given a cold shoulder, instantly became a "beauty in the eyes of lovers" and its charm blossomed. When Anyue people's eyes lit up, they found that it was much easier to use Anyue stone carving to drive the development of tourism-related industries than to "stumble" on the agricultural road. Tourism is a shortcut to develop Anyue economy. Therefore, more than 36 million yuan has been invested in the protection and maintenance of stone carvings and other ancient buildings, and 4,300 mu of land is planned to be requisitioned to expand the cultural relics protection area. 199965438+On February 27th, Governor Zhang Zhongwei fully affirmed Anyue's idea of developing tourism by relying on stone carving when inspecting the development of tourism resources in southern Sichuan.
Anyue stone carving has been included in the development of key scenic spots in the South Ring Tourism Line of Sichuan Province. Experts believe that Anyue tourism, which is mainly based on stone carving art, will usher in spring after solving traffic congestion and improving tourism supporting facilities. Li Pinggui, secretary of Anyue County Party Committee, and Xie Naiwen, county magistrate, said with confidence: Anyue County will organically combine resource utilization, ecological protection and pollution prevention, establish the brand image of Anyue stone carving, and attract guests from far and near. In the near future, they will set up an Anyue stone carving webpage on the Internet, hold a special roving exhibition of Anyue stone carving art, "Tongxian Grapefruit Festival" or "Anyue Lemon Festival" and so on. , to promote tourism as the core product trading activities, comprehensive publicity and introduction of Anyue, promote Anyue stone carving tourism.