What are the remarkable features of Maijishan Grottoes?

The remarkable feature is that the location of caves is extremely breathtaking, most of them are dug on cliffs, and the caves are accessible by aerial plank roads erected on cliffs.

Climbing these winding aerial plank roads is thrilling. The ancients once praised these projects: between the cliffs, stone carvings turned into buddhas, and thousands of caves. Breaking away from human power, doubt is magical. ? There are also proverbs circulating nearby, such as "South Mountain cuts firewood and builds Mackey Cliff" and "There are thousands of sticks of firewood in front of Mackey Cliff". It can be seen that the construction of caves and plank roads at that time was arduous and grand. The art of Maijishan Grottoes is famous at home and abroad for its exquisite clay sculptures.

The statues here are as big as 15 meters and as small as 20 centimeters, which embodies the characteristics of statues in various eras for more than 1000 years and systematically reflects the development and evolution of clay sculpture art in China. The clay sculpture here can be roughly divided into floating plastic higher than the wall, round plastic completely leaving the wall, and molding shadow stuck to the wall. Plastics and wall plastics can be divided into four categories. Among them, thousands of life-size circular sculptures are very interesting in life and are regarded as treasures.

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Many caves in McKee have been built into unique "cliff pavilions". Seven buddha Pavilion,/kloc-the top of the 0/5-meter-high East Cliff clay sculpture Buddha, is a typical China Cliff Pavilion building, built on a cliff more than 50 meters above the ground and excavated in the middle of the 6th century. Although Maijishan Grottoes are mainly clay sculptures, there are also a certain number of stone carvings and murals. Maijishan Grottoes are listed as national key cultural relics protection units, and the1.300m aerial plank road has been newly built and repaired, enabling tourists to board all grottoes smoothly.

The highest statue in Maijishan Grottoes is 16 meters, and the smallest is only 10 cm.

Among them, the statue in Cave 44 is called "Venus of the East" by the Japanese, and Cave 78 in Western Qin Dynasty. 128 cave figurines were carefully painted with patterns. The statue on the 70-meter-high seven buddha Pavilion is handsome in shape, and the murals left on the top of the corridor are exquisite. Among them, the map of horses and chariots on the top of the west end is different from any angle, which is a classic of China mural composition.