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The Dazu Rock Carvings are a series of Chinese religious cliff stone, dating back as far as the end of Tang dynasty and early Song Dynasty, depicting and mainly influenced by Buddhist beliefs. They display Chinese famous ancient stone carving art and were listed as a World Heritage Site in 1999. The general term of "Dazu Rock Carvings" refers to all the Cliffside carvings in Dazu County. There are more than 70 spots of Cliffside carvings composed of more than 50000 statues and over 100000 Chinese characters of inscriptions and epigraphs. The beishan rock carvings and the baodingshan rock carvings are the most famous ones among dazu rock carvings. They are mainly depicting Buddhist statuary, and also display Confucian and Taoist statuary. Dazu Rock carvings are the model of the art of late grottoes statues in China. They have a grand scale, and show the exquisite art and rich contents. They enjoy equal popularity of dunhuang mogao grottoes, yungang grottoes and longmen grottoes. Dazu rock carvings have the characteristics of grottoes statue, they are subject to grotto art. The early temple hall structure is completely Cliffside carvings. For example, the rock carvings in Dafowan are built by the mountain in the open air, which send people a vivid image. There is a variety of Sculpture forms including circular engraver(圆雕), bas-relief(浅浮雕),Convex relief(凸浮雕),intaglio(阴雕)and high relief (高浮雕)which is mainly adopted by the Dazu rocking carvings. The dazu rock carvings do not only have countless portraits from different ranks and numerous social life scenes, but also comes with a lot of written records. The Dazu rock carvings are vivid pictures of the history.
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