Unmatched Buddhist statuary art

❤️ The 'Handan Ancient Stone Carving Art Exhibition' at the Handan City Museum mainly showcases the exquisite stone carving art from the Northern Dynasties to the Northern Song period. 🧡 Main highlights: 1⃣️ The third cave of the Northern Xiangtangshan Grottoes (restored at a 3/5 scale, pictures 3-5). The third cave is the largest, earliest excavated, and most exquisitely carved cave in the Northern Xiangtangshan Grottoes, also known as the Great Buddha Cave. This cave, with its grand scale and exquisite art, represents the Xiangtangshan Grottoes. 2⃣️ Tang dynasty red sandstone smiling Luohan head (picture 6), although small in size, it has a loud name 'Handan Smile'​, smiling sweetly from every angle for over a thousand years. 3⃣️ Tang dynasty red sandstone Bodhisattva head (picture 7), the cover figure of the Handan Museum's brochure. 4⃣️ The bas-relief of the Thousand-Handed Guanyin in the Fahua Cave Grottoes of Wu'an (picture 8), reflects to some extent the widespread influence of Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang and Song periods. 💜 The overall style of the 'Handan Ancient Stone Carving Art Exhibition' is simple and grand, representing the rich aesthetic concepts of ancient times. It not only contains brilliant and profound ideological content but also showcases increasingly sophisticated creative techniques and methods. It embodies the Chinese nation's ability to absorb foreign cultures and creative talents. As a dazzling flower of the splendid national classical culture and a towering monument of the long-standing Eastern civilization, these unmatched Buddhist statues will forever be deeply moving.