Chongqing is abbreviated as "Yu" and "Ba", and is also known as Bayu, Mountain City, Yudu, Misty City and Bridge City. In the Qin Dynasty, it was called Jiangzhou. In the Sui Dynasty, it was called Yuzhou. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was called Gongzhou.
Chongqing's name began in 1190, because of the Southern Song Guangzong Zhao Dun first Gong Wang, then ascended to the throne, so Gongzhou was elevated to Chongqing Province, to take the meaning of the "double celebration". 1997, Chongqing was established as a municipality. During the Sui Dynasty, the Jialing River was called Yushui, and Chongqing was located on the banks of the Jialing River and was given the name Yuzhou, so Chongqing was abbreviated to "Yu".
Baoyu culture, profound and profound, with a long history. As early as in the Yin and Zhou periods, living in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River Bashan Yushui ancestors will be known for their bravery and toughness and song and dance, that is, in the war, but also "song and dance to Ling Yin people". In recent years, the Three Gorges reservoir area archaeological discoveries, more eloquent proof: the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin, the same is the cradle of Chinese civilization, Bayu culture has a long history, colorful, is an important part of the splendid Chinese culture. Here, not to mention the famous three gorges along the monuments and resorts, not to say that the war period with the capital of culture and artifacts will be pushed to a peak, only after the liberation of the culture, especially in recent years, as an example, is enough to prove this point. Dazu stone carvings in the Bayu culture on a monument, from it every knife, every chisel traces, we seem to be able to peep into the Bayu culture in the development of the veins of thousands of years? The Tongliang Dragon Dance, the Qianjiang Pendulum Dance, the Xiaohe Drums and Drums, the Chuanjiang Horns, the Bayu Blowers (Solitaire Blowers, Jinqiao Blowers), the Xiushan Lanterns, the Nine Dragons Pillar Couplets, the Plaza Stories, and the Liangping Triple Joys (the Liangshan Lantern Opera, the Liangping Bamboo Curtains, the Liangping New Year's Paintings) all seem to be in the Dazu Rock Carvings?
Folk art has created a batch of folk artists. 1999, Chongqing selected the "Bayu Top Ten Folk Artists" active in the world, and they are from the Dazu stone carvings in the realization of what?
The influence of Dazu stone carving, the most direct perhaps counting sculpture it! Carved stone lions all over the city, Bayu simply become a stone lion production kingdom. Although, we can not assert that Bayu's literature and art are originated in the Dazu stone carving, but it can be said that today's literary and artistic harvest can not be with the Dazu stone carving with the roots of the nourishment? With the Dazu stone carvings of the Bayu land, the historical development so far, when there is a novel "Red Rock", oil painting "Father", photography "Master", drama "40 years of desire", "Shazhouping", Sichuan opera "Master Qiao on the sedan chair", "Gold", opera "Torch Festival", "Wushan Goddess", dance drama "Three Gorges Love Ritual", "Little Carrot Head", TV series "Hill City Stickman Army", acrobatics "Meteor", etc., only with the Dazu stone carvings, the formation of the splendor of Bayu literature and art.