【Editor's Note】
The Yangtze River flows all the way to the east, giving birth to the thousand-year-old cultural context of Bashan Shushui, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Dongting Water Town. On December 14th, under the guidance of the Network Communication Bureau of the Central Cyberspace Administration, the Cyberspace Administration of the Party Committees of Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces and cities co-sponsored the network theme activity of "Dancing together in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and Exploring the Millennium Context of the Source", and dozens of news media from all over the country visited Bashan Shushui, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and other places through online and offline methods, and launched a series of wonderful reports.
In the lofty mountains of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, there is a group of stone carvings that have traveled through thousands of years: Dazu Stone Carvings. As a world cultural heritage, the Dazu stone carvings seem to be particularly low-key, silently waiting in the Bayu landscape.
Waiting in the Bayu landscape of the Big Foot Stone Carving
Rooted in the fertile soil of the long-standing Bashu culture, Dazu Stone Carvings, on the basis of absorbing and melting the essence of the early grotto art, have introduced the old and the new, and the extreme work has been exhausted, opening up a new world of grotto art. The statue was built in the early Tang Dynasty, through the late Tang Dynasty, five generations, flourished in the two Song Dynasties, and is the last monument in the history of Chinese grotto art. So far, there are as many as 75 grottoes announced as cultural relics protection units, and more than 50,000 statues have been created, of which the Baodingshan Grottoes are one of the most distinctive grottoes.
Baodingshan Grottoes is the only large-scale grotto in China with an overall conception, which integrates scientific principles into artistic modeling, and its statues, decoration, layout, drainage, lighting, support, perspective, etc., all pay great attention to the beauty of form and artistic conception, which is breathtaking.
Senju Kannon
Its statues are large in scale and rich in content. Attention is paid to expounding philosophy, covering the broadness of social thought, integrating the basic teachings of Buddhism with the ethics of Chinese Confucianism, the mentality of science and the doctrine of Taoism, and it has a great role in social criticism, showing the characteristics of Chinese Song Dynasty Buddhist thought.
Piper Girl
Flute girl, chicken girl, cattle herding figure... The grotto statues of Baoding Mountain have a strong atmosphere of life and distinct local characteristics, which is a model of the nationalization and life of grotto art, reflecting that the grotto art originating in India has completed the process of Sinicization. The statue is a masterpiece of grotto art with the principle of being able to understand, moving with affection, seducing with happiness, and wei with misfortune as the creative principle, and can integrate the principle of science into artistic modeling.
Chicken girl
"It is said that history is vast, and we are also using our own history to maintain monuments for the history of the ancients, and in the promised land of the land of the foot, we began to find clues to our own growth in a way." A tourist who loves to travel, after watching the stone carvings of Dazu Baoding Mountain, issued a very profound sigh, "The ancients completed their lives in the alternation of life entanglement and self-confusion. Some people use their talents to leave these secret words to future generations, so that we have books to follow and traces to follow. ”
Written by: Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Jiang Mingyong
Editor: Hu Kaiyu Ren Shiyin
Coordinator: Hu Ying
Editor: Minjia Tian