The Beishan Rock Carvings is located on Beishan that is 1.5 kilometers north of the urban area of Dazu District. It was first built in the 1st year of Jingfu reign of the late Tang Dynasty (892 A.D.), and the existing scale of Beishan Rock Carvings was finally formed after experiencing the Five Dynasties, the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Sculpted mainly in the form of niches and a few in the form of caves, the Beishan Rock Carvings including nearly 10,000 statues in various sizes are centered by the Fowan (Buddha Bend) and surrounded by smaller sites of cultural relics like the Foeryan, the Guanyinpo, the Yingpanpo and the Duobao Pagoda. The Beishan Rock Carvings intensively display the development and changes in the style of cave temple art in Bashu area from the late Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. On December 1st of 1999, the Beishan Rock Carvings, together with the rock carvings of Baodingshan, Nanshan, Shimenshan and Shizhuanshan, was inscribed as the World Heritage by UNESCO.