Dazu Stone Carving, a World Cultural Heritage Site, is the general name of all grottoes in Dazu District of Chongqing municipality. There are as many as 75 grottoes listed as cultural relics protection units at all levels.
20, in Chongqing Dazu district held “key grottoes temple protection and utilization and archaeological specimen warehouse construction site promotion meeting”, Dazu stone carvings “exposed” the current protection and utilization work.
The reporter learned from the meeting that, according to the level of cultural relics protection units, 7 of the 75 grottoes are national, 6 are municipal and 62 are district level.
Dazu stone grottoes were first built in the early Tang Dynasty, went through the late Tang Dynasty and five Dynasties, and flourished in the Song Dynasty, representing the highest level of world grotto art in the 9th and 13th centuries AD.
In December 1999, dazu stone carvings represented by Beishan Mountain, Baoding Mountain, Nanshan Mountain, Shizhuan Mountain and Shimen Mountain grottoes were listed in the World Heritage List.
Dazu stone carving institute relevant controller introduces, in 2020 the institute of dazu district as cultural relics protection units of 75 grottoes including the statues, management, protection, status, major risks, security precautions, comprehensive screening, and screening out the problem one by one rectification, to ensure the safety of cultural relics.
In terms of the implementation of the protection responsibility, Dazu District has 69 village-level volunteer cultural guards, and has formulated more than 30 rules and regulations such as “Cultural Relics Safety Management Measures” and safety disposal plans under various special circumstances.
In addition, the local government has adopted a combination of professional protection and mass protection to strengthen the safety inspection of cultural relics protection units at all levels.
Key cultural relics are the implementation of 24 hours fixed post, positioning, timing, fixed the work system.
In terms of cultural relics protection, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Dazu Stone Carvings Research Institute has invested in 1.For 4.6 billion yuan, 24 major cultural relic protection projects, such as rock mass reinforcement, water seepage control and body restoration, have effectively contained stone carving diseases to a certain extent.
It is worth mentioning that at present, Dazu Stone Carvings Research Institute has launched a three-year rolling protection plan for the protection of Dazu small and medium-sized grottoes, and plans to carry out environmental renovation, safety facilities and rural cultural heritage experience construction of 68 small and medium-sized grottoes in the whole region in stages.
The current grottoes protection cannot be separated from the “science and technology” support.
The reporter learned that Dazu Stone Carving Institute and Italy established advanced “Dazu Stone Cultural Relics Protection Center”, Dazu Stone Carving Safety Technology Prevention Center covering more than 30 important stone carvings, modern monitoring and information technology, dynamic monitoring and information management.
The promotion meeting on the same day was jointly organized by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the National Development and Reform Commission. Representatives from 12 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) including Shanxi, Henan and Sichuan provinces made exchange speeches on the protection and utilization of cave temples and the construction of archaeological specimen warehouses.
(Reporter Zhong Yi)