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Feixiange Cliff Carvings 飞仙阁摩崖造像Fēixiān Gé Móyá Zàoxiàng
National heritage site · Chengdu, Sichuan
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chengdu
- Region
- Sichuan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Feixiange Cliff Carvings
One of the two protected groups of the Pujiang Grottoes, near Chaoyang Lake, with Buddhist and Taoist niches carved from the Tang to the Qing, the earliest dated 689. Surveys count 64 Tang niches with 491 figures, plus Five Dynasties and Qing work. The largest figure is a 6-metre seated Tang Maitreya, and one Wu Zhou-period niche shows the Three Sages of the Western Paradise.
How to get to Feixiange Cliff Carvings
Near Chaoyang Lake in Pujiang County, about 1.5 hours by road south-west of central Chengdu.
Nearby
- Mount Mengding 蒙顶山 40 km
Misty tea terraces and an imperial tea garden where tea growing is said to have begun
Also within 20 km: Shixiang Lake, Pujiang 石象湖 (under 10 km), Chengjia Tea Country, Pujiang 成佳茶乡 (under 10 km), Zhengshan and Liuzui Cliff Carvings 郑山、刘嘴摩崖造像 (10 km), Danling White Pagoda 丹棱白塔 (20 km), Moon Lake, Mingshan 月亮湖 (20 km).
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