Site Represents a site. Contact sz71@st-andrews.ac.uk Status public Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Condition 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dazu Rock Carvings Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Shiruo Zhao Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 358 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Description An account of the resource Dazu Rock Carvings is located in the Dazu District of Chongqing City. It was carved in the Tang, Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties, and continued to be carved in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is now a world cultural heritage and one of the eight largest grottoes in the world. There are 23 Dazu Rock Carvings distributed in the southwest, northwest and northeast sectors of the county. 19 places such as Baoding Mountain and Beishan are more concentrated. Among them, the Baoding Mountain cliff sculpture is the largest and the most exquisite. In addition to statues of Buddha and Taoism, there are also statues of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in the same cave, with Buddhist statues accounting for the largest proportion. The Dazu Rock Carvings represent the highest level of world grotto art in the 9th to 13th centuries AD, and are the last monuments in the history of human grotto art. It shows the major developments and changes of Chinese grotto art style from different aspects in the Tang and Song dynasties, and has historical, artistic, and scientific values that are irreplaceable in earlier grottoes. It is famous for its grand scale, exquisite carvings, diverse subject matter, rich connotation, and well-preserved. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 21/05/2021 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Tang Dynasty Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Dazu Rock Carvings Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT