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Baoding Quyang Beiyue Temple | A thousand years of Quyang stone carving Quyang is located in the southwest of Baoding, Hebei, on the eastern foot of the Taihang Mountains, and is named for its location on the curved sunny side of the ancient Beiyue Hengshan (now Damao Mountain). Speaking of the sunny side, some people may not be familiar with it. As the old saying goes, the south of the mountain and the north of the water are called Yang. The so-called sunny side is actually the south. Quyang is located in the ancient Yan and Zhao regions, and is a major transportation route from the Central Plains to Shanxi and the northern frontier. It has always been a battleground for strategists. Its development and the ceremonies of Beiyue Hengshan and Beiyue Temple are inseparable. Starting from Emperor Wu of Han, there has been a tradition of worshiping Beiyue Temple. According to the 'Quyang County Chronicles' and the inscriptions of Beiyue Temple, from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the emperor and his officials went to Beiyue Temple for worship more than 300 times. The ceremony brought people to Quyang, and the people brought development. Against this background, it is natural for Quyang stone carving to flourish. When Quyang stone carving shapes images of unclear gender like Buddha, it emphasizes the depiction of the inner world of characters, and pays attention to the echo between characters and between characters and animals. The modeling of Quyang stone carving is not only similar in shape, but also removes complicated details, captures the spirit and structure of people, uses subtraction, and strives to achieve the requirement of vividness in dynamic structure. The shapes of Quyang stone carving works are varied, and the composition images are different. Due to the primitive means of stone mining, it is impossible to control the thickness, thinness, square and round of the stone volume. Quyang stone carvers shape according to the shape, and based on these different types of stones, they develop rich imagination and carve various stone carving works. Beiyue Temple