Translated Abstract
After the late Tang dynasty, due to social unrest in the central plains, Buddhist culture has been seriously affected. After the large-scale digging in Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties, the Chinese grotto art began to recession and came to its late period of development. However, at this time rich and comfortable place of Sichuan thrived in the history of buddhist art. Large number of art craftsmen were influenced by northern buddhist ritual in the central plains, and their concept were blend with the local characteristics of Sichuan native. So Sichuan place unique artistic style to come into being. During the Two Song Dynasties, the local features and secularization style in An yue grotto got mature gradually. From the Buddhism grotto statues and exquisite processing point of view of artistic value to see, An yue grottoes are difficult to compare with the heyday of Buddhism grotto statues. It does not have the gorgeous and generous that heyday grottoes. However, An yue grottoes in the weakening of divine and the secular enhancement process, it has a style of its own.Among the An yue grottoes, the Wofo temple, Qianfo temple, Xuanmiao temple, Yuanjue cave, Pilu temple, Mingshan temple, Mahamayuri temple, Huayan temple, they are the most abundant, and their artistic value is the highest. Every buddhist stone carving works, they all have their own artistic style on the carving techniques and expression of content. In other areas with the same period of buddhist stone carving art of comparison. An yue grottoes carved stone works showed the sichuan humanities landscape and customs. It not only inherited the characteristics of each historical period, but also has the unique characteristic of this region. This reflects the different age of grottoes statues, and embody people‘s religious beliefs and aesthetic characteristics of different ages.
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