Leaving the North Grotto Temple, we first went to Xiaojin Pagoda. Then, I rushed to Qingyang Museum and had a lunch break. The museum opened at 2:30 in the afternoon, and Mr. Yuhe visited the museum. Xiaojin Pagoda is an octagonal six-level pavilion-style brick tower in the Song

Leave North Grotto Temple , and first go to Xiaojin Pagoda. Then, I rushed to Qingyang Museum and had a lunch break. The museum opened at 2:30 in the afternoon, and Mr. Yuhe visited the museum.

Xiaojin Pagoda is an octagonal six-level pavilion-style brick pagoda in the Song Dynasty. Located in South Street, Xiaojin Town, Xifeng District, Qingyang City. Originally named Jincheng Temple Pagoda, the pagoda is named after the temple. Now the temple is no longer there, and there are only brick pagodas left. The top and tower brake were later built, and the original object was destroyed in the early 1970s. In 1981, Xiaojin Pagoda became the fourth batch of key cultural relics protection units in Gansu Province. In 2013, the tower was among the seventh nationalities with the style of the Song Pagoda.

Xiaojin Pagoda was built in Song Huizong th year of Zhenghe (1118). It is an octagonal seven-level imitation wooden pavilion-style brick tower, with seven floors and six floors existing. It consists of three parts: the foundation of the tower, the body of the tower and the tower brake. Each side of the tower body has a brick imitation wooden bucket arch with stacked eaves, with flying eaves and dripping water on the eaves. There is no tiles covering the roof, and flat seats and railings are installed on the eaves. There are doors or carved doors on each floor of the tower body and mullion windows and . The eaves of the tower are carved into flying and faucets with fine white sand and gravel, with iron hanging rings underneath, and wind chimes are hung. The appearance of the tower body is divided into layers. The brick tower enters through the first layer of voucher door, and there are brick engravings at the bottom of the front railing on the second layer. The tower chamber is a hollow cylinder structure, and the floor slabs on each floor have been destroyed, leaving only traces of the mouth. Xiaojin Pagoda reflects the architectural characteristics of the Song Dynasty in its shape and structure. It is an embodiment of the combination of Song Dynasty architecture and brick carving art. It is of great value for the study of brick and stone structure architecture in the Northwest region. (Excerpt from 360 Encyclopedia)

Xiaojin Pagoda is surrounded by iron bars and can only be viewed from a distance.

↓Qingyang Museum is said to be the largest museum in Gansu Province with the largest collection of cultural relics. It is the national third-level museum, . The venue was completed in 2012 and is located at No. 4, Honghua West Road, Xifeng District, Qingyang City, on the south side of Harmony Plaza. The museum currently has more than 10,000 cultural relics in its collection, including 60 national first-class cultural relics. Prehistoric pottery, Shang and Zhou jadeware, Han and Tang bronze mirrors, Song and Jin porcelain and Buddhist statues are the highlights of Qingbo. Qingbo has nine regular exhibitions. Mr. Yuhe only looked at three of the exhibitions in detail: Qingyang History, Buddhist art and paper cutting.

Qingyang Museum is a national second-level museum, with 60 national first-class cultural relics and the world's largest ancient Yellow River elephant fossil. Located at No. 4, Honghua West Road, Xifeng District,

Qingyang Museum was officially completed and opened to the public on May 12, 2012, with more than 10,000 cultural relics in the museum. There are currently 9 permanent exhibitions including "Historical Relics Exhibition", "Historical Celebrity Exhibition", " Buddhist Culture Exhibition", " Paleontological Fossil Exhibition", "Revolutionary History Exhibition", "Cartoon Painting Exhibition", "Vacation Exhibition", "Paper Cutting Exhibition", and "Shadow Play Exhibition", showing the long historical process of Qingyang from the Paleolithic Age 200,000 years ago to the establishment of the Red regime in Shaanxi and Gansu border. Among them, prehistoric pottery, Shang and Zhou jade, Han and Tang bronze mirrors, Song and Jin porcelain and Buddhist statues are the most distinctive; 60 national first-class cultural relics are the most popular among the audience, the world's largest ancient Yellow River elephant fossils, colorful folk exhibits and precious revolutionary cultural relics are also the characteristics of our museum. The "Yellow River Ancient Elephant" fossils and "Huanjiang Winglong" fossils unearthed from Heshui County are well-known both at home and abroad. The first paleolithic artifact unearthed in Zhaojiacha, Huachi County, our city, the famous Shang Dynasty "Zhuocaiwu" jade spear, Han Dynasty "Pengyang" copper tripod and Song Dynasty Yuhu Chun Bottle are the only treasures seen in the province. (Excerpted from the official website of Qingyang Museum, fish have been deleted)

↓Represented by the grottoes in Qingyang area during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the grottoes in the north are represented by the grottoes in Qingyang area. There are four caves in Heshui County.

↓The cave in the Tang and Song dynasties—the Lianhua Temple Grottoes, also in Heshui County.

In May 1999, when Fu Xiulan, a farmer from Nanpo Village, Ning County was living in a kiln, he found that Buddhist stone statues of different sizes were unearthed on the left side of the top of his kiln. After being cleaned and repaired on the spot by the county museum, all of them were moved back to the county museum for collection. This is a Buddha statue in the Tang Dynasty. There are more than 100 statues and fragments hidden in it, and a total of 89 of them are basically complete cultural relics after restoration.The materials used are local gray-white sandstone, and are carved using three techniques: relief, high relief and round carving. In terms of its shape, there are five categories: statue towers, screen-style statue monuments, statue niches, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and single statues. Some of the statues are painted in white, black, red and blue or backlit, while others are also covered with gold. The inscription of the vertical statue stele records that it was created by Chengyou Chouerjing in the 12th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (488). Buddhist statues in my country rose to prosper in the Sixteen Kingdoms and were popular in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Statues from the Sixteen Kingdoms period are very rare in grottoes and temples in my country. Ningxian This batch of stone statues has works of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and its significance cannot be underestimated. It spans six dynasties and is one of the rare series of statues in my country. It has the nature of a Buddhist chronicle. It not only provides a basis for the excavation and chronology of the chronology of the North Grottoes, but also provides rare physical information for the development of Buddhism in the middle and upper reaches of the Jinghe River, which is moving east and west. It will cause repercussions across the country and even overseas. It is an extremely precious cultural heritage in Ning County. (Excerpt from the article "Stone Statue of Northern Dynasties" by Li Zhongxin and Mi Zhanhong, fish have been deleted)

↓ Buddhist statues in Nanpo Village, Ning County are all imitations in the Qingyang Museum.

The upper and lower pictures are imitations.

↓ Northern Wei Stone Buddha Head, Xifeng District collection. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

↓ Seven Buddhas bronze sitting statue, collected by Yima Town, Qingcheng.

↓Bronze sitting statue of the seven Buddhas in the Northern Wei Dynasty, collected in the West Peak District. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

↓ One Buddha and two Bodhisattvas were held in the first year of Renshou in the Sui Dynasty (601 AD), the Guoqi team in Guoqi Village, Tongchuan Township, Qingcheng County was collected. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

↓ Statue Monument, the Cultural Relics Museum did not specify

↓ Stone Buddha Niche, built in the seventh year of Yonghui in the Tang Dynasty, collected by Jiuzhan Village, Haozuipu Township, Heshui County. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

↓ Tang Dynasty pottery tower is very exquisite, but unfortunately there is no text introduction.

↓th generation statue group, handed over by Qingyang Public Security Bureau. This group of statues is carved from yellow sandstone. There are seven bodies in total, Sakyamuni Buddha, disciple , Ananda and four Bodhisattvas. The square base carved with a row of small sitting Buddhas.

↓Stone Buddha Head in the Song Dynasty, collected in Xifeng District. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

The Stone Buddha Head of the Song Dynasty in the picture above and below was handed over by the Qingyang Municipal Public Security Bureau.

↓ The portrait of the Bodhisattva in the Song Dynasty, the portrait of the Stone Buddha, Ananda, and Kashyapa in the Song Dynasty were all collected by Huachi County .

↓Stone Bodhisattva head and Ananda avatar collected in the Song Dynasty, Maling Town, Qingcheng County.

↓Stone Bodhisattva Head in the Song Dynasty (left picture below), collected by Maling Town, Qingcheng County; bronze sitting statue of Sakyamuni in the Yuan Dynasty, collected by Binglincha Village, Taibailiang Township, Qingcheng County.

↓The avatars of the Stone Buddha, the strong men, and the offerors in the Song Dynasty were collected in Xifeng District.

↓Jinda Ding Ten Years Sutra, Buddha Portrait Brick , orchid brick. All were unearthed from the Baozichuan Shuangta Temple site in Linzhen Township, Huachi County.

↓ Buddha statues on the sutra tower

↓ Stone statues and stone lions in the Song and Jin Dynasties were handed over by Qingyang Public Security Bureau.

From the perspective of shape, it should be a relics of the Buddhist temple.

Ming Dynasty civil servant bronze sitting statue, collected in Xifeng District.

↓Bronze sitting statue of Bodhisattva in the Ming Dynasty, collected in Xifeng District.

↓Ming Dynasty Xuanwu bronze sitting statue, collected in Xifeng District. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

↓ Zhuangziwa Kiln Temple is located in Zhuangziwa Village, Dongzhi Township, Xifeng District. Discovered in 1999. The ruins of the kiln temple are typical Longdong caves. Concave shape. A total of nineteen statues and eight objects were cleaned up. Except for the six whose heads were incomplete, the rest were intact. The inscriptions clearly state the year "Ji Sui Ming Zhengde eleven years" and the list of vowers. This batch of cultural relics was identified by experts as national second-level cultural relics.However, these cultural relics are not in the Qingyang Museum. And the museum introduces them very little. Only the picture below is the picture.

↓The following are Buddhist statues in the Qing Dynasty

↓The bronze sitting statue of the cloth bag monk in the Qing Dynasty, collected in Xifeng District. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

↓Bronze statue of Ananda in the Qing Dynasty, collected in Xifeng District. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

↓The bronze statue of Kashyapa in the Qing Dynasty was collected in Xifeng District. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

↓The bronze sitting statue of the Qing Bodhisattva, collected in Xifeng District. Qingyang City Museum's collection of fine works.

↓ There are many ancient pagodas in Qingyang area, including the Xiaojin Pagoda posted in the picture in front, the statue tower in the Longdong Stone Carving Museum mentioned in the previous blog post, the statue tower of the Shuangta Temple statue tower, the Huanxian Pagoda, and several ancient pagodas in the picture below.

These ancient towers are located in remote areas and cannot be reached by car. Yu’s driving skills are despicable, so he can only sigh!

Welcome to visit, I wish you good health and good times!

Note: The picture is taken on the afternoon of July 24, 2020