What is the technique used in the Nanchang Cliff Statue?

The Nanxiang statue grotto also pays great attention to the carving and painting of the frieze of the niches, designing a lot of house-shaped grottoes with carvings of flowers and plants, animals, heavenly deities, Buddha and other motifs. At the same time, green, red, white, pink, blue, earth red, etc. for painting, so that the frieze of the niche is fresh and exquisite, magnificent.

South niche cliff statues are mostly carved in high relief, clothing and celluloid with smooth and bright yin carving lines, the knife is pure and refined. Not only expresses the different contents of the Buddha's biography of the "sutra" story, but also reflects the image of the aesthetic standards of different times, social life.

The unity of the form and content of the stone carvings in Nanchang, fully embodies the ingenuity of the ancient master craftsmen, for us to study the political, economic, cultural and so on through the ages provides very valuable information.

South niche cliff statue scale, carving and embedding exquisite, pectinately connected, is our country's ancient working people ingenious art boutique, is the ancient grotto art of the excellent representatives, is the ancient culture of Bazhou historical testimony.

Nanqi Guanyin Stone Carving