Special Mention

特别提醒

Different from the grottoes elsewhere in China，Dazu rock carvings are particularly secular and real to human life，thus uplifting the art to an unprecedented level of closing up to the real world. Of all the rock carvings，those on Banding Mountain cover almost all aspects of the social life，just like a comprehensive gallery of folklore. Modeled in statues are kings and lords，nobles and generals，officials and civilians，scholars and merchants，or farmers and fishermen，all vivid and familiar fellows of the real life. The cliff-face carvings of the“five mountains" provide an all-aspect miniature of the social life of Chinese during the later Tang Dynasty，the Five Dynasties Period，the South and North Song Dynasties.The Indian grotto art through this long time development in China thus completed its localization here and then.

大足石刻以其浓厚的一世俗信仰、纯朴的生活气息在石窟艺术中独树帜，把石窟艺术生活化推到了空前的境地。其中，宝顶山摩崖造像所反映的社会生活情景非常广泛，几乎应有尽有，颇似宋代的一座民间风俗画廊。无论王公大臣、官绅士庶、渔樵耕读，各类人物皆栩栩如生，呼之欲出。大足石刻中的“五山”摩崖造像，从各个侧面浓缩地反映了晚唐、五代和两宋时期的中国社会生活，使源于印度的石窟艺术经过一长期的发展，至此完成了中国化的进程。