Lushena Buddha will be relief rubbing. West Lake Xixi Scenic Area Lingyin Management Office courtesy of the picture
Hangzhou, January 26 (China News Network) On January 26, the "Flying Peak Stone Carving Culture Exhibition" opened in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. On the same day, 14 original rubbings of Feilaifeng Grottoes and Cliff Rock Carvings were met with the public for the first time.
It is reported that the Song Dynasty is the peak of China's traditional culture, and Song Yun culture, as an important part of China's excellent traditional culture, is an important cultural symbol with Chinese style and Zhejiang recognition. As the ancient capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou has left many cultural relics of the Song Dynasty, and the rich grottoes and cliff statues are particularly prominent, of which Feilai Peak is crowned.
Jiang Yufeng, full-time deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum of Culture and History, told reporters that between the cliffs of Feilai Peak, there are cave statues and cliff inscriptions from previous dynasties. It is the largest surviving group of grottoes in Jiangnan, China, and has an indispensable place in the history of Chinese stone carving art in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Lushena Buddha will be in relief. West Lake Xixi Scenic Area Lingyin Management Office courtesy of the picture
He said that the Stone Carvings of the Song Dynasty at Feilaifeng are a high degree of integration of natural and cultural heritage and a concentrated embodiment of spiritual connotation, and are the historical witnesses of Song Yun culture.
In recent years, Zhejiang has paid more and more attention to Song Yun culture. The 2022 Zhejiang Provincial Government Work Report proposes to "systematically carry out the research and inheritance of Song Yun culture and the brand building of Southern Song Dynasty culture".
In this context, with the Song Dynasty stone carving rubbings and modern famous artist inscriptions as the medium to hold the exhibition, Jiang Yufeng believes that this move is not only based on the present, but also looks forward to the future. At the same time, the theme of the exhibition is "Not Afraid of Floating Clouds", which is not only the scene of the literati "Climbing the Flying Peak" of a thousand years ago, but also the meaning of responding to the new mission of the new era, not forgetting the original intention and forging ahead.
The 14 original rubbings unveiled for the first time in this stone carving culture exhibition show the "elegance" of the Literati and Inkers of the Song Dynasty. There are both "in and out of Chu Henan, Yan Lugong and self-reliant posture", and there are also "the pulse of the upper Chengsi Ice, the wind of the lower Qi and the white wind".
The scene of the event. Photo by Wang
Among them, the relief of the Lushena Buddha Society is a masterpiece of the First Year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1022), which is exactly 1,000 years old, while other Cliff Carvings are also nearly a thousand years old.
The curator of the exhibition, Shao Qun, deputy secretary and deputy director of the Lingyin Management Office of the Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area, said that unlike the grandeur and grandeur of the northern grotto statues, the Hangzhou grottoes are distributed between the cliffs and caves, and the carving art is exquisite and delicate, and the Integration with Jiangnan culture, artistic aesthetics, and landscape gardens, reflecting a unique Jiangnan charm and an important part of the history of the development of Chinese grotto statues.
Taking the relief of the Lushena Buddha Society on display as an example, Shao Qun said that the relief sculpture is composed of seventeen figures and two animals, which is a representative work in the Statue of Fei lai Feng in the Two Song Dynasties, and one of the most exquisite reliefs in the Statue of Fei Lai Feng. "The exquisiteness of its technique is evident from the delicate limbs of the animals on the rubbings." (End)