Sichuan. Anyue tourist resort

Anyue County, Sichuan Province:

After the direct administration of Chongqing, Anyue became the "first stone carving county" in Sichuan Province. The famous aesthetic critic Mr. Chao Wen praised the Anyue stone carvings as " It is ancient, diverse, exquisite and beautiful, and its artistic level is first-rate in the country." Ms. Han Suyin, a Chinese-American writer, praised: "I have been to many countries and seen many stone carvings, but this is the first time I have seen such exquisite ones." Shang Chengyun. The Anyue Stone Carvings of Gang and Xia Qi Dazu, taking advantage of the fact that the Dazu Rock Carvings have been included in the World Cultural Heritage, are currently being applied for the World Cultural Heritage as an extension of the "relay". However, the "national treasure" that has a history of thousands of years and is even more splendid today is not as majestic and famous as Dunhuang; nor is it as popular as the Dazu Rock Carvings, which attracts many viewers. For decades, she has been like a girl hiding in a boudoir, shy and willing to be lonely...

On September 18, 2002, the Ministry of Culture officially named Anyue County the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Stone Carving Art" ". On May 18 this year, the National Tourism Administration reviewed the application of Anyue Stone Carvings as a national AAA tourist area. The profound cultural and artistic connotation and tourism value of Anyue Stone Carvings began to shine brightly. To this end, the person in charge of the Anyue County Party Committee and County Government said that it is imperative to make full use of the natural resource advantages of the hometown of stone carving art and strive to build Anyue Stone Carvings into a high-quality product on the southern Sichuan tourism circuit. As a result, some people jokingly said: "The stone carving girl should have gotten married long ago"!

The Anyue Rock Carvings, which were founded in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, enjoy an important position in the art of Chinese grottoes from the Dunhuang, Yungang and Longmen Grottoes to the Dazu Rock Carvings. They are known as the "China "Another great treasure house of ancient stone carvings" and a veritable "hometown of stone carving art". The Anyue stone carvings are large-scale, with more than 100,000 cliff stone statues alone. There are mainly Buddhist statues, as well as Taoist statues and religious art. Most of them are groups of cliff statues, and there are also some single stone statues. When the reporter walked into the Anyue Stone Carving Group, he was immediately shocked by the fine carvings, skillful knife skills and unique stone carving art. The uncanny stone carvings with different expressions seemed to be telling ancient stories, all of which made people think.

According to experts who have studied the art of Anyue stone carvings, there are many classics among the Anyue stone carvings: the body is 23 meters long, the shoulders are 3 meters wide, and the head is 3.1 meters long. It is the longest in the world. Statue of the reclining Buddha Shakyamuni in Nirvana. There are also more than 400,000 engraved scriptures. The Wofogou Sutra Cave, which is unique in the country and rare in the world, has been praised as a "national treasure". There are nearly 20 well-preserved and clearly legible main sutras in the Sutra Cave. The sutras are carefully carved and are important historical documents for studying the history of Buddhist classics and calligraphy in my country and for correcting versions of Buddhist sutras. The Zizhu Guanyin in Pilu Cave is also known as the "Oriental Venus".

As a major agricultural county, Anyue's stone carving tourism resources have not been properly developed, and some of its fine stone carvings have suffered from severe weathering and man-made damage. Recently, when people realize that agriculture alone is not enough to develop the county economy, the Anyue Stone Carvings, a "bitter girl" who was once ignored, instantly became a "beautiful woman in the eyes of the beholder" and her charm blossomed. The eyes of the Anyue people brightened up, and they discovered that using the Anyue stone carvings to promote the development of tourism-related industries was much easier than "stumbling" on the agricultural road. Tourism is a shortcut to developing Anyue's economy. As a result, relevant parties invested more than 36 million yuan in protecting and repairing stone carvings and other ancient buildings, and planned to acquire 4,300 acres of land to expand the cultural relics protection zone. On December 27, 1999, when Governor Zhang Zhongwei inspected the development of tourism resources in southern Sichuan, he fully affirmed Anyue's idea of ??developing tourism based on stone carvings.

The Anyue Stone Carvings have been listed by the province as a key scenic spot for development on the Sichuan Southern Ring Tourist Route. Experts believe that after the traffic congestion is solved and tourism supporting facilities are improved, Anyue's tourism industry, which focuses on stone carving art, will usher in spring. Anyue County Party Committee Secretary Li Pinggui and County Magistrate Xie Naiwen said with confidence: Anyue County will organically combine resource utilization, ecological protection and pollution prevention to establish the brand image of Anyue stone carvings and attract guests from near and far. In the near future, they will build an Anyue Stone Carvings webpage on the Internet, hold Anyue Stone Carving Art special touring exhibitions, "Tongxian Pomelo Festival" or "Anyue Lemon Festival", etc., to promote tourism as the core product trading activities, and comprehensively promote and introduce Anyue, promoting Anyue stone carving tourism.