Seek the route to Dazu stone carving!

There are more than 0/00 ancient stone carvings in Dazu County, Chongqing (now upgraded to Dazu District). Among them, Wuyue Stone Carvings are listed as World Heritage, and the most famous one is Baoding Mountain. If you take a one-day tour with a group, the tour guide will only lead the tourists to Baoding Mountain. Instead of carving stones in Beishan. Friends who like ancient stone carving art should not choose to travel with a group, which will make you regret it. It takes at least two and a half hours from Chongqing to Dazu County by car. It takes half an hour to get to Baoding Mountain from Dazu County by car. It takes six hours to go back and forth that day. The tour group will not spend more than an hour in Baoding Mountain. Plus a lunch, visit Longshui Hardware Tool Factory in the afternoon, and the day tour of Dazu Stone Carving is over.

Therefore, for friends who like China stone carving art, they must choose a self-help tour to enjoy Dazu stone carving.

Let me elaborate on my latest exclusive strategy.

It is very convenient to go from Chongqing to Dazu County. If foreign tourists come by plane and get off the plane, there is a long-distance bus station at Jiangbei Airport, but there are only two flights every day, namely 12: 30 and 17: 00. Ticket price, 58 yuan. I made it clear when I bought the ticket that it was Dazu carved in stone, and there is another place in Sichuan called Dazhu, which has the same pronunciation. The coach will stop at several places: the postal kiosk, Shuangqiao and Longshui. Finally arrived in Dazu County. On the way, you will meet passengers on the road and stop to pick up passengers. Generally, if it goes well, it will take two and a half hours to reach the old bus station and terminal in Dazu.

There are also long-distance buses to Dazu at Caiyuanba and Chen Jiaping Bus Station, which basically run every half hour. The fare is from 53 yuan (Caiyuanba Station) to Chen Jiaping, and the fare is about 52 yuan. The car condition is similar, there will be passengers on the way, there will be several stops, and the end point is also the old bus station.

Get off at the terminal, take the 10 1 loop bus, the fare is 1 yuan, get off at Jishiqiao, and you can see several buses parked on the roadside, including the bus to Baoding Town, and the ticket is 3 yuan. This is the terminal, and many ticket sellers are standing on the side of the road, obviously. However, the minibus will wait until the seat is almost full. If there are really no passengers, it will take a while. There is an agricultural bank near the station and a big supermarket next to it. Travelers can buy some food and drinks here, and small shops in Baoding town sell more expensive things.

If you don't want to take a minibus, you can take a taxi in Dazu County. Be careful not to take a taxi near the old bus station. Drivers are likely to stop passengers. Read some travel notes of self-help tour. The taxi from Dazu County to Baoding Town is around 30 yuan. Because I went alone, it was a good deal for me to take a minibus.

The minibus is in Baoding Town, the terminal, and it takes more than ten minutes to walk from the town to the gate of Baoding Mountain Scenic Area. You can also take a tricycle, three yuan per person, and a battery sightseeing bus.

If, like me, I go to Baoding Town in the evening, I can go to Baodingshan Stone Carving the next day and stay in the only hotel in Baoding Town of Dazu. You can see it as soon as you get off the bus. The market price of standard room is more than 200 yuan, and the online booking is more than 100 yuan. I booked a big bed room, 138 yuan. The environment there is quite good and the service attitude is very good. It is worth recommending!

However, the tourist souvenirs in the shops in Baoding town are more expensive and need to be greatly cut down. Try not to buy things here.

There is no need to go to Baoding Mountain early the next morning, because it is late. Winter is even later. Baodingshan+Beishan Stone Carving (65438+February-February) off-season coupon 120 yuan, and off-season coupon 170 yuan (quite expensive). Students must bring their student ID cards, and retirees (over 60 years old) can enjoy half-price tickets. I only spent 60 yuan to see two scenic spots. The joint ticket for Baoding Mountain and Beishan Mountain is valid for two days, so don't worry. You can watch it for two days.

The scenic spots provide free translation. When the number of tourists exceeds 30, a commentator will be sent to explain the whole process. If there are less than 30 people, or even only one person, it will take half an hour before there will be a commentator. I went too early, so I waited helplessly for the arrival of the translator. In order to better visit the stone carvings, I specially printed more than 20 pages of information, while waiting for the interpreter, while reading the information.

Later, there were more and more tourists. Even in the off-season, there were an endless stream of tourists in Baoding Mountain.

Follow the commentator and listen carefully to the explanation. Baodingshan stone carvings are horseshoe-shaped and 500 meters long. If you don't appreciate it carefully, you can just walk around and finish reading it.

Baodingshan stone carving is the peak and representative of the late stone carving art in China. Mainly in the Southern Song Dynasty. The stone carvings here are very unique, unique in China and even in the world. They blended Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. The stone carvings on Baodingshan are huge, and there are paintings on them, including red, blue, green and even gold foil. Very shocking!

Baodingshan stone carving is a vivid teaching material for stone carving comic books. I was deeply impressed by the six divisions in the Karma Wheel map. Another group of stone carvings deeply touched me, that is, the kindness of my parents in disguise. Combined with many stone carvings, it depicts the hardships of parents raising their children and their meticulous love for their children. One group: the baby wets the bed in the middle of the night, and the mother doesn't blame the child, but picks up the child and lets him sleep on his clean bedding, and the mother sleeps on the wet side. It is particularly noteworthy that this mother's face is full of kindness, which is a touching symbol of Baodingshan stone carvings handed down from generation to generation, and the description of the characters has reached a high level.

This group of stone carvings conveys a theme: children must honor their parents. Baoding Mountain and the largest siddhattha gotama in the world are also very imposing.

There is also a treasure hall, where Guanyin, the treasure of Baodingshan Town, is placed with gold foil on it. Unfortunately, in recent years, avalokitesvara has been restored, and some of it can be seen vaguely. It will not recover until 20 14. There are also horrible camouflage pictures of hell and heavy-tasting stone carvings, warning the world that they will be punished in hell if they do bad things.

I listened to it with the narrator's sister first, and then took out my more than 20 pages of information and enjoyed it carefully.

It's really not like the Longmen Grottoes I've been to. At first glance, it looks like an atypical Buddhist stone carving. Although I have done some homework in advance, I feel sorry for the fact that Buddhist art is still almost blank. After seven years of art history, I have not studied Buddhist art. I went with a wish, and when I came back, I brought back a lot of question marks and a lot of Buddhist art knowledge waiting for me to chase. Although I have graduated, my thirst for knowledge is eternal.

After visiting the stone carvings, you can walk to the exit and see an inverted tower in the Tang Dynasty, which is very small. There is also a temple: Shengshou Temple, which seems to be a ticket for 20 yuan each. You don't have to go if you don't burn incense.

Out of the exit of Baoding Mountain, there is a long list of small shops. The price of souvenirs here is ok, much cheaper than Baoding town. Dazu's signature souvenir, a pair of stone Bigfoot shopkeepers bid around 25 yuan. After bargaining, 15 yuan is sure to win. 2 yuan money can buy a small stone foot pendant. The shopkeeper can carve stone carvings. Selling stone carving products while carving. They first carved large pieces of shapes with machines, and then carved them by hand with tools.

After visiting the Baodingshan stone carvings, it is best not to eat in the scenic spot. The price is not particularly expensive, but the food on the mountain is terrible and the hygiene is not good. You can go back to the county seat by minibus, and you will pass a small town called Hualong in ten minutes. Tell the driver that the driver knows there are many places to eat nearby, but it is best not to go to too big a store. Those shops are rented by foreigners to open restaurants. Can't go to the villa door, go to the second facade on the right. If you want to eat Chinese food, you must order some special dishes. Crucian carp with crispy rice is his specialty, and other dry-cooked rabbits are also good. In addition, whether eating fish or Chinese food, you must order a large basin of local characteristics: slippery broth, which tastes quite good. Authentic sweet potato powder is wrapped in third-line meat, and the dried pickles in the soup are particularly delicious, which is made by the boss's 80-year-old mother herself. The three of us can never eat 100 yuan.

After dinner, continue to take the minibus back to the county seat for ten minutes, and you can stay in the county seat at night. Beishan stone carving is on the edge of the county seat. You can go to the pedestrian street or Hongsheng Square at night. Understand the living conditions of local people.

We chose to visit Beishan the next day. In the county seat, the taxi starts in 5 yuan. Tell the driver to drive to Beishan, and you can go to Beishan Scenic Area.

Beishan stone carving is the earliest stone carving in Dazu area, which was born as early as the Tang Dynasty. The shape is simple, and at first glance it is a typical Buddha shape. The main attraction of Beishan stone carving is Guanyin, which is known as the temple of Guanyin art in China. There are all kinds of Guanyin statues in it. Among them, Guanyin's coquettish posture is too beautiful, clothes are elegant, and Wu is in the wind.

There is also a wheel that passes through a hidden cave and is a national treasure. The most important treasure in Beishan. I won't go into details one by one.

The stone carvings in Beishan are concentrated in a closed corridor. North and south sections, 300 meters long. Although the length is short and the statue is small, there are 10,000 Buddha statues.

There are few tourists in Beishan, and there are no interpreters. Travelers need to do their homework in advance and prepare some written materials like me. It was a lucky day to go, and I happened to meet a commentator with several tourists and followed them. I have also looked back and forth at the stone carvings in Beishan several times. It's a little dim in there. In order to protect the stone carving, please don't use the flash when taking pictures. The Buddhist sculpture skills in the late Beishan period are superb and exquisite, and I am afraid that modern people's carving skills cannot surpass their predecessors. The Buddha statues in the caves where the wheels pass are all fine works, but unfortunately they are all locked up. In order to protect the national treasure, this is necessary.

After reading the stone carvings, you can walk on, cross a bridge, climb to the top of the mountain and see many pagodas, which are very high, attractive and elegant. You can see it at the gate of Beishan.

Push a little harder, hold your breath and climb up. I like many pagodas very much.

It is suggested that self-help tourists go to Beishan to see stone carvings and walk more. Don't be afraid to climb mountains. Many pagodas are worth visiting. There are several small caves around the bottom of the tower, all of which have small Buddha statues, and the head of one of them has been cut off smoothly. This may have been done by criminals before, but they were caught and sentenced to death. There are cameras under the tower now.

After seeing the pagoda, you can see two small pagodas. Further on, there is a tall statue of two Buddhas, who can burn incense and some people sell incense.

Go back after seeing the original road, cross a bridge and walk to the exit. Finally ended the journey of Dazu stone carving. The other three mountains (except Nanshan) are remote, with inconvenient transportation, few statues and scattered, so there is no need to go.

By the way, there are many small hotels in Dazu County, which are generally clean and the price is below 100 yuan. Dazu county is a very busy place, not a remote small county at all.

You can also take a bus to Longshui Lake in summer. It is said that the scenery there is also good.

After enjoying the stone carvings in Beishan, I went back with a lot of question marks. There are very few people who study Buddhist art in our major. I think we need this kind of literacy at present. I am also very interested in Tibetan Buddhist art, and I will make up for this knowledge when I go back. Then go to Shang Bo to see the Museum of Buddha Statues and Sculptures.

Therefore, I think my trip to Dazu stone carving is not a simple "play", but a learning trip. Anyone who can visit Dazu stone carvings is predestined friends with Buddha!

If you are going to road trip, there are two routes: one is to take the Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway Dazu Youting Station and go to Dazu County for one hour; You can also take the Chongqing-Suiyuan Expressway and get off at Tongliang County, and then take Laochengyu Road to Dazu County. The distance between the two sides is almost the same, the road conditions are good, and the rural scenery along the way is also good. Just a reminder, take the postal kiosk to Dazu, the speed is slower, and there are many cameras for speeding detection, which is also for everyone's safety.