Free entry to 12 caves, highly recommended for Song painting enthusiasts!

After the National Archives of Publications and Culture in Hangzhou, Liangzhu has a new landmark, the "Chinese Painting Collection Museum", which includes archives of paintings from the pre-Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties to the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. It's a paradise for ancient painting enthusiasts! In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Royal Painting Academy was established, and the "Gewu" thought was rigorous and realistic. The literati painting, represented by Su Shi and Wen Tong, gradually gained momentum after the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. The Liao Dynasty also had the Hanlin Painting Academy and the Painting Attendant, and Khitan painters such as Hu Wanghuan and Yelü Bei emerged. The Northern School of Landscape Painting was preceded by Jing Hao and Guan Tong, followed by Li Cheng and Fan Kuan, and the latter three were known as the "Three Pillars of the Ages"; in the south, there was the lineage of Dong Yuan and Ju Ran, who created the style of "plain and natural". Mi Fu's "Cloud and Mountain Ink Play" also had a new style. In terms of figure painting, Li Gonglin and Zhang Zeduan focused on religious themes, historical stories, and genre paintings. In the field of flower and bird painting, the splendor of Huang Quan's "outline and fill" and Xu Xi's "ink as a style" in the Five Dynasties influenced the painting academies of the two Song dynasties. "The Boundless Realm" has 12 3D-printed caves, such as the Bodhisattva of the East Hall of the Foguang Temple on Mount Wutai in Shanxi, the 15th niche of the Great Buddha Bay of the Baoding Mountain Grottoes in Dazu, the Gaoshu niche of the Guyang Cave of the Longmen Grottoes, the 45th cave of the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, and the 10th cave of the Yungang Grottoes. Get up close and personal with the thousand-year-old art treasures, especially the Purple Bamboo Guanyin statue in the 5th niche of the Biludong Grottoes in Anyue, also known as the "Cross-legged Guanyin". The Water Moon Guanyin is popular in Bashu.