What is the meaning of the thousand Buddha walls carved by the Cliff Statue of Longhua Stone Buddha Mouth?

Longhua Stone Buddha Cliff Statue is located in the north of Shaofu Village, Lan Qi Town, Longhua County, northwest of Chengde City. It is excavated on the stone wall on the north bank of Shaofu River, with a height of 10 meter. (Photography/Fan Chungong)

The statue was eroded by strong acid by the Japanese invaders in the 1940s and was damaged to varying degrees. As the masses have been quarrying here for many years, some statues have been destroyed.

1July, 993 15, the cliff statue of Tianlong Fossil Fokou was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Hebei Province.

According to Feng's "Golden Stone Lock" in Qing Dynasty: "Carved on its mountain, it is called cliff." Cliff stone carving is an ancient stone carving art in China, which refers to calligraphy, statues or rock paintings carved on cliff walls.

The first group: Three Three Buddhas of the Third World sat on the waist sumeru in semi-relief, smiling kindly, wearing shoulder-length gowns, with their hands flat on their knees. There are 1 Buddha statues on both sides of the III Buddha, and thousands of Buddha walls are carved on the back.

Group II and Group III: Thousands of Buddha walls were carved in the Buddhist niches, which were divided into two layers *** 107. The fourth group: sitting on 20 buddhas, with high incidence and long ears, dignified face and natural expression.

This sculpture adopts high relief technology. The rock mass where the cliff is located is sandstone, and the weathering is generally more serious than man-made damage.

This statue is in the Liao and Jin styles. On the cliff around the east side of the statue, there is an inaccessible concave stone shed with five lines of stone inscriptions in the Yuan Dynasty, and now four lines are preserved.