More than a thousand years ago, between the lofty mountains and mountains in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty, a group of stonemasons chiseled the first statues of Dazu stone carvings on the steep cliffs. For thousands of years, the axe and knife chisel have continued here, and more than 50,000 statues have been built successively and more than 100,000 inscriptions have been engraved. By 1999, the Dazu Rock Carvings had become the second Grotto World Heritage Site in China after the Dunhuang Grottoes.
At 21:00 on January 16 (this Sunday), the second season of "Ten Thousand Miles Of Walking Alone", which is exclusively titled by Drunkard Liquor, will broadcast the fifth episode of Zhejiang Satellite TV. In this issue, Shan Jixiang, Zhou Yun, Xiao Yang, Niu Junfeng and flying guest Li Yugang came to Chongqing together to explore the Dazu stone carvings, which are known as "the last monuments in the history of world grotto art". From the first chisel of the Tang Dynasty, the excavation of Dazu stone carvings has gone through the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming and Qing Dynasties. How have statues of different eras changed? How can people discover, feel and appreciate the beauty of this grotto that combines different artistic styles?
Look at the "doorway" or watch the "hilarity"?
The "Wanli Youth League" appreciates the aesthetics of Chinese grottoes
As the last amazing monument in the forest of Chinese grotto art, Dazu Stone Carvings have become a masterpiece of traditional Chinese culture with a broad style, profound and penetrating ideas, and the coexistence of the three religions of Confucianism, Interpretation and Taoism. More than 50,000 stone statues are distributed between Baoding Mountain, Beishan Mountain, Shizhu Mountain, Nanshan Mountain, and Shimen Mountain, and the statue styles of the Five Mountains are still different, why is there a saying that "Beishan looks at the doorway, and Baoding looks at the liveliness"? In the program, Lao Dan and Xiao Yang will also walk into the North Mountain, under the guidance of Guo Xiangying, the first director of the Dazu Stone Carving Art Museum, to feel the way of viewing the aesthetics of Chinese grottoes. In the eyes of this "Guardian of Dazu" who promoted and experienced the process of "applying for heritage" in the Dazu stone carvings, how is the beauty presented by the Senju Kannon of different dynasties different?
In 1999, at the 23rd World Heritage Conference, the Dazu stone carvings "are famous for their extremely high artistic quality and rich and varied themes, from secular to religious, which clearly reflects the daily social life of China in this period, and fully proves the harmonious coexistence of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism in this period", and was included in the World Heritage List, becoming the second grotto-type world cultural heritage in China after the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, and thus also laid the status of "North Dunhuang, South Dazu". Different from the Dunhuang Grottoes, which are famous for their Buddhist statues, the Dazu stone carvings have the characteristics of the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and the stone statues of The Stone Seal Mountain, which were basically carved during the Northern Song Dynasty, are a representative work of the early statues of the coexistence of the three religions in China. Why did the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism choose to coexist in harmony in the Song Dynasty? How did the coexistence of the three religions affect the beauty of the shape of stone sculpture art?
Repair as old or repair as new?
The "Wanli Youth League" explores the development path of the inheritance of the world heritage
Whether you look at the "doorway" or the "liveliness", the Thousand Hands Guanyin Statue on Baoding Mountain is a must-see spot that cannot be missed to see the Dazu Rock Carvings. For a long time, the Thousand Hands Guanyin has been widely known for its visually impactful image, which is not only shown in literary and artistic works, but also its statues have sprung up in large numbers on the land of China. However, before Zhao Zhifeng built Baoding Mountain in the Southern Song Dynasty, most of the Thousand Hands Guanyin statues were not large in specification, and even if they were large-scale, their composition, layout, and especially details were inferior to the Thousand Hands Guanyin statues created by Zhao Zhifeng. In the past, the thousand hands Guanyin statue was basically a combination of "round carving + yin carving" in the display of "thousand hands", and even most of them only carved 42 hands to symbolize "thousand hands". Is this magnificent statue of Senju Kannon truly "Senju kannon"?
In the program, Lao Shan recalled his experience of seeing this Thousand Hands Guanyin Statue for the first time, when the Thousand Hands Guanyin Statue that had just experienced the Wenchuan earthquake needed to be repaired urgently. "It is necessary to take the rescue protection and restoration of the Thousand Hands Guanyin Statue as the first project of the national stone cultural relics protection", this sentence is from lao Dan's mouth. However, in the face of old cultural relics, whether to repair the old as the old, to retain the vicissitudes of history, or to repair a new one, so that it can be revitalized, has been debated endlessly. Eight years of long restoration, the golden body of the Thousand Hands Guanyin reappeared, and some netizens commented bluntly that "the 800-year-old Thousand Hands Guanyin was repaired to 18 years old" . So, how should cultural relics be restored to reflect their greatest historical value? And why put a new "gold suit" on the ancient statues? Cultural heritage can be preserved to this day, still has a continuous vitality, who is behind this silently guarding?
Dazu stone carvings were first chiseled in the Tang Dynasty, but flourished hundreds of years later in the Southern Song Dynasty, why was it possible to form such a grand cultural scene in the Song Dynasty? How can the cultural heritage of humanity be preserved in the long term? All the answers, all at January 16 (this Sunday) at 21:00 Zhejiang Satellite TV "Ten Thousand Miles Single Ride" season two, together into the Dazu stone carvings, together to feel the Chinese grotto aesthetics.
Source: Guangming Network