Among the existing Dazu stone carvings, the earliest one is the Cliff Statue of Jianshanzi, which was carved in 650 AD (the first year of Yonghui in the early Tang Dynasty), and only one Cliff Statue of Shui Sheng Temple was newly carved in the next 200 years. There are only 20 niches in these two statues in the middle and early Tang Dynasty. It was not until 885 AD that Changzhou moved to Dazu, and the cliff statues gradually flourished.
In 892 AD (the first year of Tang Jingfu), Changzhou secretariat ruled Chongchang, Pupu, Chongqing and Hehe, and ordered Nanjing Army Weijun Jing to build a grain depot in the county town of Beilonggangshan (now Beishan) for ten years, and stationed tens of thousands of troops in Yongchang Village. At the same time, the Buddha statue was carved for the first time in Beishan. Since then, state and county officials, local gentry, civilians and monks and nuns have followed suit, until 907 ~ 965 (the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Sichuan is a country of Shu, which is called pre-Shu and post-Shu in history. The continuous construction of Buddha statues has formed the first sculpture climax in the history of Dazu stone carving.
During the 360 years from 892- 1252 (Jingfu in the late Tang Dynasty to Chunyou in the Southern Song Dynasty), Dazu successively built 34 sculpture areas of Buddhism, Taoism and Buddhism, accounting for about 80% of the total number of Dazu stone carvings. Among them, except the cliff statue in Beishan, which was carved in the first year of Jingfu at the end of Tang Dynasty in 892, the rest were built during the period from Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty to Chunyou in the Southern Song Dynasty in 1082- 1252.
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty in A.D. 13, the stone carving was interrupted by war. By the end of 15, during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the cliff statues were gradually restored and continued until the late Qing Dynasty. During the 500 years from the beginning of15th century to the end of19th century (Ming and Qing dynasties), there were 39 cliff statues, most of which were small sculpture areas, and the number of statues was less than 20% of the total number of Dazu stone carvings today. During 965- 1077 (from Gande to Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty), the cliff statues stagnated, and no statues at that time have been found in the county. At this time, stone carvings and round carvings rose in the temple. Today, there are relics to be found and documents to be collected. There is Dazhong Temple in the east of the county seat, Shibi Temple in the west of the county seat and Yan 'en Temple in the north of the county seat. By the 1980s, there were more than 100 Buddhist round carvings unearthed in Dazhong Temple alone.
A.D. 1078 ~ 1 173 (Shaoxing and the main road from Yuanfeng in the late Northern Song Dynasty to the early Southern Song Dynasty), Dazu stone carving reached its second climax. Since A.D. 1082 (the fifth year of Yuanfeng), Yan Xun, the owner of the big manor, has dug statues of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism in Shi Zhuan Mountain, and the cliff statues in the county have come one after another, and 32 statues of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism have been dug up successively. Nanshan, Shimen Mountain Statue Area and Beishan Pagoda are all built here. The Beishan Sculpture Area, which was carved in 892 AD, lasted more than 250 years and was completed in Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty 1 146 AD.
During the Southern Song Dynasty 1 174 to 1252, it is said that Zhao Zhifeng, a Dazu monk from Mudra, was the sixth-generation founder, inherited the tantric sect founded by Liu Ben Zun in western Sichuan in the late Tang Dynasty and preached in Baodingshan. He lived in poverty for more than 70 years with the aim of promoting Buddhism. Nearly 10,000 Buddha statues have been excavated in all directions, and the only large-scale grotto Dojo in the history of China tantric school has been built, which has brought Dazu stone carving to its peak. During this period, statues in other parts of the county basically stagnated. Under the seat of Zhao Zhifeng, the stone carving masters gathered in Baoding Mountain to perform. Baodingshan became the center of Chengdu Yoga School, a tantric school in China. At the end of 13 and the middle of 17, Dazu suffered two wars. In Wushan Cliff Statue, except Shengshou Temple in Baoding Mountain, which was burned down twice and rebuilt twice, the Cliff Statue has been well preserved.
After the completion of the "Wushan" cliff statue, in addition to secular decoration and cultivation, until the end of 19 and the beginning of this century, local talents added several small niches such as Guanyin, Mountain God and Tianmu beside the statue area. At present, the scale and style of statues in the Tang and Song Dynasties have been basically maintained. 1949 People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC) has been properly protected and opened to the outside world since its establishment.
Dazu stone carvings, represented by cliff statues of Beishan Mountain, Baoding Mountain, Nanshan Mountain, Shi Zhuan Mountain and Shimen Mountain (Wushan for short), are an important part of China grotto art, and also the most magnificent page in the world grotto art from the end of the 9th century to the middle of13rd century, from the first year of Jingfu in the late Tang Dynasty in China to the 12th year of Chunyou in the Southern Song Dynasty. Dazu stone carving was founded in the first year of Yonghui in the Tang Dynasty in 650 AD, and flourished from the end of the 9th century to the middle of13rd century, reaching the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the masterpiece of China's late grotto art.
The "Wuyue" Cliff Statue is famous for its large scale, exquisite carving, diverse themes, rich connotations and well-preserved. It is different from the previous grottoes, and it is a collection and interpretation of the achievements of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. With its distinctive nationalization and lifestyle, it is unique in China Grottoes. With a large number of physical images and written historical materials, this paper shows the great development and changes of China grottoes' artistic style and folk religious beliefs from different aspects from the end of the 9th century to the middle of13rd century, which has made important contributions to the innovative development of China grottoes' art and has irreplaceable historical, artistic, scientific and appreciation value for grottoes in past dynasties.