Dazu

alternative Ta-tsu

1. A district of Chongqing, China.

   The year 1898 brought uprisings of the Tien Ti Hui (Heaven and Earth Society), a popular anti-Ching secret organization in Kwangsi Province, and of the peasants in Tatsu County, Szechuan.

   义和团运动

   [1976, Compilation Group for the "History of Modern China" Series [《中国近代史丛书》编写组], “Unprecedented National Crisis”, in The Yi Ho Tuan Movement of 1900 [义和团运动], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 13

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   Similarly there had been a break in the supply of small hardware from Tatsu county to its traditional markets in Tahsien, Mienyang, and Wenchiang, which was now restored as a result of the exchange fair.

   [1967, Gargi Dutt, “Recent Developments, 1963-64”, in Rural Communes in China, Organizational Problems, New York: Asia Publishing House, →OCLC, page 174

   A new chapter in the study of Chinese sculpture in the Sung Dynasty opened with the discovery of the Mai-chi-shan caves already referred to and the publication of a little-known sculptured cliff at Ta-tsu in Szechwan, dating chiefly from the Sung. The lively realism of the Ta-tsu high relief figures, some of which resemble the clay figures at Mai-chi-shan, others reminiscent of mediaeval European sculpture, is further proof that beside the courtly and scholarly arts for which the Sung is famous there flourished a vigorous school of popular Buddhist art of a very different character.

   [1973, Michael Sullivan, “Sung Dynasty (960-1279)”, in Chinese Art: Recent Discoveries, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31

   Emei Shan is one of Buddhism’s four sacred mountains, while Baoding Shan (Precious Mountain) at Dazu is one of China’s four great centers of Buddhist sculpture. These sacred carvings are located in Sichuan Province in western China, in Dazu District, about halfway between the cities of Chengdu and Chongqing.

   1998, J. D. Brown, Frommer's China: The 50 Most Memorable Trips (Frommer's), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306

   Dazu District is located in the west of Chongqing, 55 km away from the central downtown of Chongqing in the east and 155 km away from Chengdu in the west. Dazu has been world-known for the world cultural heritage Dazu Rock Carvings.

   2022 March 31, “A Creative Slogan Worths 100,000 Yuan - Dazu of Chongqing solicits promotional slogans from all over the world”, in AP News, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023