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重庆大足石刻英语导游词
DAZU ROCK CARVINGS
Good morning! Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to chongqing! I am vitted into the world cultural heritage list.
Dazu County, reputed as 'the county of rock carving’, has an area of 1,400 square kilometers (about square miles), and it covers a history of 1,230 years since it came into existence in 758 during the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
The Dazu Rock Carvings was built from 650 in the Tang Dynasty and continued to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the Qing Dynasty (1616-1911). It is as famous as the Mogao Cave in Dunhuang, Gansu Province. The rock carvings in these places are very distinguished both at home and abroad. Among the rock carvings, there are more than 5,000 statues and over101, 000 Chinese characters of inscriptions and epigraphs. The Buddhist statues dominate in this rock carving group, and the Taoist and the Confucian stone figures can also be seen. DRC established a new styled art form that evolved from the traditional grotto art in their subjiecs, artistic forms and aesthetic conception!
According to the schedule, today we will visit the rock carvings in baoding mountain! Baodingshan is located 15 kilometers to the northeast of longgang Town, seat of Dazu country.