Seek photos of Song Dynasty life in Dazu stone carvings

Bao Ding Mountain - Cattle Herding Figure

? "Cattle herding" is a group of Zen statues with mountainous and wild feeling and bold knife skills. According to the Buddhist scriptures, Zen is the whole life of human beings; and the oxen, which are closely related to the life of human beings and have "human nature", have become the objects of Zen scholars' "Zen thoughts". This niche "cowherd figure" is about thirty meters long, is a rare scroll group carving, it is a visual representation of the Buddhist Zen view of the practice process. The whole niche statue a *** carved with ten shepherds and ten cows, shepherds on behalf of the practitioner, cattle on behalf of the practitioner's heart, the process of taming the cattle that is the practitioner to subdue the heart, realize the process of Zen initiation. The process of taming the cows is the process of taming the mind of the practitioner to realize the process of Zen initiation. Eventually, the practitioner reaches the highest spiritual state of "emptiness of the four elements and forgetfulness of things.

Bao Ding Mountain - Parental Grace through Transformation

? "Filial piety is the core of ethics and morality in traditional Chinese culture, and has been accepted and practiced by the general public for thousands of years. The "Parental Grace" is an exemplary work of art that promotes the Confucian idea of filial piety and celebrates the painstaking efforts of parents in raising their children. With the theme of the arduous process of parental upbringing that they experienced and observed in their lives, the craftsmen vividly carved ten sets of vivid and realistic images, expressing the Confucian concept of filial piety of the ten virtues of parents, showing the richness of family life and a variety of emotions, vividly reproducing the secular life of the world.

Baodingshan - Hell in Disguise - Chicken Lady ?

There is a beautiful, kind and hard-working chicken woman in the picture of hell in disguise, but she has to enter the hell of Abi, which makes people puzzled. It turns out that according to the Buddhist saying, eating chickens is against the precepts, from the karma on the push, raising chickens is also the original cause of this injustice. But raising chickens is really the most common activities of the people, perhaps it is so, craftsmen in the heart, although the chicken woman carved in the world of hell, but dignified and beautiful, very touching. The whole picture of raising chickens is filled with a refreshing local flavor, full of the interest of farm life. The woman raising chickens is carved in a subtle way, and people are always overwhelmed by her beautiful image and happy joy.

Baodingshan-Daodongfo Retribution Sutra Transformation-Flute Player

? "There is a beautiful flute-playing woman in the "Six Masters and Gentiles Slandering the Buddha and Being Ungrateful Picture". Her delicate hands with the flute, inclined head, eyes slightly closed, look cohesive, is a handful of mouth horizontal blowing, alone intoxicated in the melodious sound of the flute, to Shakyamuni's sayings and teachings are ignored. Piper girl hand arc line bent pipe flute called bow flute, it is more than straight pipe flute tone more mellow and soft. This carving is one of the masterpieces of Dazu stone carving.

A bowl of gold and a bowl of rice ?

A couple had a son in their old age, like a pearl in the palm of their hand. One day, the mother showed the child a bowl of gold and rice to see what he would choose. The child only knows that rice can be eaten to fill the stomach, but do not know the value of gold, so choose rice and not choose gold. The inscription next to the bowl reads, "The same is true for all ignorant beings...". "Ignorance" means stupidity and ignorance. The craftsmen used this simple story to inspire the ignorant beings who do not know the value of the Buddha's teachings and wisdom, and do not only know how to satisfy their own momentary greed, or else they will be like this child who chose rice and gave up the gold, and threw away the most valuable thing. This little niche creation serves as a reminder to all beings.

Baodingshan-Liu Benzun's Acting Figure Part

On both sides of Liu Benzun's main statue, his followers are arranged, including civil and military officials, as well as common people. The clothes and costumes of these people provide valuable physical information for us to verify the dress of people from different social classes at that time.

Shimenshan-Sanhuang Cave Part

The right wall is carved with seven statues, either civil or military, with different expressions. Wen, elegant and elegant, clothing folded and stretched, realistic approach, "human flavor" more than "God flavor". The martial arts, wearing armor, temperament, completely earthly martial arts and dress. Cave right wall statue due to the collapse of the rock wall, most of the wreckage, now only a general statue. The whole cave carving delicate, simple and complex layout properly, showing the honor and order, really like to see the earthly feudal emperor's deliberations of the court hall.