Artistic Research On Brick Sculpture Of Chong Xing Temple’s Twin Towers In Bei Town

The ChongXing temple’s anise thirteen layer dense eaves brick twin towers in Bei town, is considered as an important instance of dense eaves brick tower for China’s Liao dynasty. ChongXing temple’s twin towers showed a east-west confrontation, the east tower with a height of 43 meters and 42 meters for the west, the distance between two towers is 43 meters, except for a slight difference in height, the twin towers shared the same building shape. This paper take the brick sculpture on ChongXing temple’s twin towers as research object, by field investigation and consulting related literature material, analysis and research the content of brick sculpture on ChongXing temple’s twin towers, summarizes its art characteristics and uniqueness. By combining literature with field investigation as research methods. Based on field investigation, ChongXing temple’s twin towers brick sculpture mainly concentrated in two parts, the footing and body of the tower. The footing trench pot door was carved with the gigaku, bodhisattva,dancer, provider, lohan, flower pattern, and adornment such as animal patterns. Among them, by comparing with the tomb murals, the unearthed cultural relics and other image material, we found out that the gigaku carved on twin towers should be San music of Lao dynasty and the instrument played by the gigaku provided precious, intuitive image material for the study of instrument in Liao dynasty. In addition, each side of the twin towers carved with combination of embossment which contained a buddhist shrine, the Lord Buddha, two assistant bodhisattva, two flying Apsaras and three canopies. The Lord Buddha of east tower all with a crown, while the Lord Buddha in west tower with spiral coil hairdo, only Buddha Lou in the south with a jewellery crown. This can be inferred that Buddhism of Liao dynasty inherited tantric Buddhism of Tang dynasty.Liao dynasty’s sculpture style and technology not only inherited the Tang dynasty, and affected by the Song dynasty, also combined with its own national culture. Through analysis of the nomadic culture of Qidan nationality, the Han nationality culture in central plains, and Western Regions’ national culture, which can get a deeperunderstanding of multicultural art characteristics on brick decoration of ChongXing temple’s twin towers, it also has a guiding significance to the analysis of the existing pagoda architectural decoration art for Liao dynasty, and help to understand the buddhist culture, architecture form and sculpture art. etc. of Liao dynasty.