World Cultural Heritage

The Dazu Rock Carvings was created between the Tang and Song dynasty. The Rock Carvings mainly focus on Religion Cliff and Buddhist themes, among which
particularly North Cliff Mountain Buddhism Statues and Baoding Buddhism Statues are the most famous Carvings. The Dazu Rock Carvings is the famous Chinese ancient stone carving art. North Cliff Mountain Buddhism Statues located in Dazu County, Chongqing City, 1.5 km north of North Mountain.

This length of the Cliff Figures is more than 300 meters, which is the national cultural heritage site, at the same time is world cultural heritage. Figures were excavated originally in the late Tang dynasty (AD 892), then after Later Liang, Hou Tang Dynasty, Hou Han and Hou Zhou Dynasty. Its completion happened in the Southern Song dynasty of 1162, lasted 250 years. The more than 4600 existing sculptures are the best representatives of Chinese ancient grotto art.

Dazu County, one county of Chongqing, was built in Tang Dynasty (758 years) which is famous for Dafeng, Dazu,". Dazu is not only the famous stone town, but also the first open county of Chongqing. the state established the starting point of the Yangtze River Three Gorges Tourism County, the National ecological agriculture counties, opening an important window of Chongqing. Dazu County has a long history, culture, and rich tourist resources. County dotted with stone statues has as many as 75, 5 thousand body sculptures being the cultural relics protection units .