Over 60,000 carved stone figures relating mainly to Buddhism are spread around 76 places within Dazu County, 160 kilometers to the west of Chongqing. The content and craftsmanship are best at Beishan and Baoding Hills. The art of Dazu that emerged in the late Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) and flourished in the Song Dynasty (960-1127) represents an important chapter in China's cultural and religious history.

Beishan (or Gulonggang Hill) has 290 shrine caves in all. The most well-known of them is the Xinshenche (the Wheel of the Universe) Cave. In the center shrine stands the Buddha, with jingbaobing Guanyin (a kind of Buddha) at the left side and Duoluo at the right side. In the left shrine there stand Manjusri, yuyin Guanyin and ruiyizhu Guanyin. In the right shrine there stand Samantabhadra, riyue Guanyin and suzhushou Guanyin. They are created in a symmetrical manner and proper order, as though they were an integral whole. The eight statues of Bodhisattvas have the features of well-proportioned bodies, exquisitely luxurious garments and distinct characters.

Baoding (Treasure Peak) Mountain, fifteen kilometers northeast of Dazu, is well-known for its comprisal of more than ten thousand magnificent sculptures. Those located in Dafowan are best preserved and most numerous. Dafowan is a U-shaped range of hills about fifteen to thirty meters high and some five hundred meters long. The statue carved on the eastern, southern and northern cliffsides of the valley are patterned in accordance with the terrain of the hills, resulting in natural and magnificent structure. Consisted of more than 15,000 stone sculptures in 19 groups of the Buddhist stories, the statues in this grotto look so marvelous that each of them is portrayed in different pose and with a different expression. They are worth appreciating. The Yuan Jue (Total Awakening) Grotto at the hilltop was created in a whole rock, so it is quite spacious. In the center of the cave stand three Buddhas. In front of the main Buddha stands a knelling Bodhisattva with his head down and his palms put together with reverent attention. On the either side before the wall there stand twelve Bodhisattvas who sit cross-legged on a lotus throne striving to attain enlightenment. The reining cave walls are carved into temples, trees, mountains, flowers, and heavenly and earthly beings.

In the treasure of Dazu stone sculptures, the well designed groups of nineteen grand relieves cover a wide scope of artistic themes, and most of them present Buddhist figures as human beings and depict scenes from everyday life. They are rarely seen in any other part of the world.

The special cultural atmosphere makes the boom of folk sculpture art in Dazu. As a result, in addition to a great variety of the artistic works, all of the products, such as stone lion, stone inkslab and stone statue of Buddha, are quite delicate and vivid.

During the Kuomintang-Communist alliance against the Japanese during WWII, the Red Crag Village outside Chongqing was used as the offices and living quarters of the Communist representatives to the Kuomintang. Many famous leaders, such as Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying, Deng Yingchao once stayed here. On August 28th, 1945, Mao Zedong had stayed in this place when he came to Chongqing to negotiate with Ching Kai-shek.

There are many historical relics here: the Guiyuan, the right place where Mao Zedong put down his signature on the agreement of negotiation and where he met the personages of various circles; No.50, one of Zhou Enlai's important offices during that period; the former residence of Sun Yat-sen; the living quarters for General Stilwell and General Marshall; the official mansion of Chiang Kai-shek, and so on.