Cliff statue 105, about 65438+ ten thousand statues.
Judging from the existing inscriptions, the peak of sculpture was mainly from the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty for nearly 400 years.
Anyue County, located in the east of Sichuan Province, is the crossroads of Chengdu-Chongqing ancient road. Founded in the fourth year of Jiande in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (AD 575), it was called Zhou Pu in ancient times.
There are many cultural relics in the county, especially stone carvings.
There are more than 300 stone carving sites with a certain scale and more than 65,438+10,000 stone carving statues, including 2 national key cultural relics protection units, 6 provincial cultural relics protection units, 2 municipal cultural relics protection units and 40 county cultural relics protection units.
Most of the stone carvings were carved in the peak period of the development of China grottoes from north to south, that is, the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty.
Stone carvings are mainly based on Buddhist themes, and there are also a few Taoist statues and Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism statues, mostly cliff statues.
Its artistic style is not only the legacy of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but also the charm of the Tang Dynasty. It is full of body and features the Song Dynasty, with fine carving, full wreaths and gorgeous decoration.
Anyue County is located in the east of Sichuan Basin, bordering Chongqing in the east, Neijiang in the south and Suining in the north.
It covers an area of 2689. 1 1 square kilometer, with cultivated land 1.336 million mu, and governs 69 townships with a population of 1.54 million.
Anyue has a long history and splendid culture.
In ancient times, Bashu was divided and ruled, and Liang was located in Puzi County, under whose jurisdiction Jiande was located in the Northern Zhou Dynasty for four years. Because it was built on Tiefeng Mountain, it took the meaning of "living on the mountain" and got the name of the county.
At this point, prefectures and counties are located in the same city with a history of 1400 years.
During the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, Zhou Pu was already a famous town, with the same culture as Meishan's "Three Sus" and the reputation of "Dongpu (State) and Messi (Mountain)".
A large number of well-read figures and heroes, such as Cheng, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, Jia Dao, a great mathematician in Song Dynasty, Yuan Hepeng, a martyr of Guangzhou uprising, Kang, a pioneer of new poetry, Yun Kui, an agricultural scientist, and Liu, a famous contemporary writer, were born or buried in Sri Lanka, making outstanding contributions to Anyue's development.
Stone carving flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, with high historical and artistic value, and was praised as "ancient, different, refined and beautiful" by the famous aesthete Wang Chaowen.
There are more than 200 cliff stone statues in the territory, with more than 65,438+10,000 statues and 15 caves with more than 400,000 characters. Eight temples are listed as national and provincial cultural relics protection units, including the reclining Buddha Temple, Shiyang Pilu Cave, Dingxinhua Cave, Mingshan Temple, Huang Jue Temple Scene, suburban Jue Yuan Cave and Thousand Buddha Cave.
There is also a rare stone ancient building-Wooden Door Temple.
The purple bamboo Guanyin in Shiyang Pilu Cave is 3 meters high and hangs in a grotto about 10 meters long and wide. She "smiled and looked forward to it", sitting sideways on a curved lotus leaf with a length of 3 meters, elegant and natural, full of charm, and was praised as the "Venus" of the East by experts and scholars who came to watch it.
The well-preserved Jurassic Mamenxi dinosaur fossils, a large number of stone inscriptions and precious cultural relics in the collection are especially praised by people who study history and appreciate historical sites.
Anyue has developed agriculture and rich products.
It is a national commodity grain base county, a meat-producing county, a lean pig production base county, a county with aquatic products exceeding 10,000 tons, and the hometown of lemons in China.
Lemon, Tongxian pomelo, sweet potato processing, sericulture and animal husbandry have become the five pillar industries in Anyue.
Anyue's industries are mainly silk, textile, food, bamboo weaving, medicine, mechanical processing and building materials, and have begun to take shape.
The construction of Anyue Industrial Park will be fully completed by the end of 2002, and Anyue industry is in the ascendant.
Anyue infrastructure construction has developed rapidly.
The 772-kilometer main road running through the territory is very fast.
220kV power transmission and transformation 1 seat,1/0 kv power transmission and transformation 5 seats, and program-controlled telephones 10000 doors. Mobile communication and optical cable transmission make communication more convenient.