Ji'nan palaeo stone engraved by experts: this
Author: Guo Xuejun
21 day, the newspaper reported on the mountain of the District of the Pingan Street office in Changqing District of Ji'nan. The new discovery of 19 weathered cliff sculptures in the Song Dynasty has caused many readers to pay much attention to the stone carving in the field.
the morning of 22, a reader to the newspaper material said that in the Changqing District, kutd Town, Hutong village, about 1 kilometers southeast of the jellyfish mountain, there is a historic site called Saint Buddha cave. Here the statue of the Tang and Song Ming, different times have weathered stone statues, more powerful, is now a new plastic gilded or painted. In his opinion, this should be the measure taken by the believers to protect the statue, but it also makes the statue lose its original historical features, and will not be able to see the original image of the cliff later.
according to the clue provided by readers, the reporter then rushed to the jellyfish mountain sacred Buddha cave.
the grottoes are located in a stone eaves at the waist of the Mt. jellyfish. The grottoes are built on the mountain, excavated by a natural cave, and the portal is made into a stone voucher door. There is a shrine outside the cave, which is worshipped by Guan Gong, Guan Ping and Zhou Cang. The three statues were all decorated. In the middle of Guan Gong's sitting, the Yellow armor was more striking, and Guan Ping and Zhou Cang stood around.
into the cave, only the sculptures on both sides of the cave are high relief, some of which are molded into gold bodies, and some are newly decorated with coloured drawing. There are 2 disciples of 1 Buddhas and 2 Bodhisattva on the north wall of the cave. There are 2 Bodhisattva along the south wall, of which the highest Buddha is about 1.2 meters, and the statue of the Bodhisattva is particularly fine. It is in the area of about 1.55 meters long and about 1.45 meters wide, and the preservation is basically intact.
Huang Peng, a folk archaeological enthusiast in Ji'nan, told reporters that according to the "dictionary of Ji'nan historic sites", the statue of the saint Buddha cave is made up of 3 shops and the times are different. 1 Buddhas and 2 Bodhisattvas 2 disciples on the north side of the cave were relics of the early Tang Dynasty. The statue of the 2 Bodhisattva on the south side of the cave is the style of the Northern Song Dynasty. Guan Gong, Guan Ping and Zhou Cang statues outside the cave are carved in the Ming Dynasty.
"I go to San Dong before, inside the cave Buddha due to weathering and vandalism, have been more serious damage, but can still see the elegance of the year." Huang Peng said that the statues inside and outside the cave have reshaped the golden body or coloured drawing, which has made the statues more plentiful, but the characteristics of the times can not be seen.
"it's not appropriate to create new statues or coloured paintings for statues. Not only can not protect the role of cultural relics, but will cause damage to cultural relics, is a "protective" destruction, good intentions to do bad things. Jing Wong, an expert on Buddhist statues and Deputy Research Institute of the Ji'nan Institute of archaeology, said that once a new statue was made or painted, it was annihilated, and it would be difficult to study these ancient statues.