Photographed by Xie Gelan, a cliff statue of Xishan Temple in Mianyang, Sichuan in 1914

Share a group of old photos of Mianyang, Sichuan Province in 1914, mainly taking the cliff statue of the Western Mountain View in Mianyang a hundred years ago, which was taken by Xie Gelan

Victor· Victor Segalen (1878-1919), a famous French poet, writer, sinologist and archaeologist, is also a doctor and ethnographer. His life has a deep relationship with China, and he is also famous for writing about China. He has lived in China for a long time and traveled many times. From 1909 to 1917, he came to China as a naval trainee interpreter, doctor, visiting professor, and archaeological leader for three times, spending about seven years in China. In the past seven years, in addition to living and working in Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing and other places, he also made two semi annual sightseeing trips and archaeological trips with friends in the Loess Plateau, Qinghai Tibet Plateau, Sichuan Basin, Yangtze River Valley and other places, covering more than half of China

The following photos are all kinds of statues taken by him on the cliffs of Xishan Temple in Mianyang in 1914. Welcome to read them

  The Yunvquan Cliff Statue in Mianyang is a Taoist statue, which was chiseled on a bluish sandstone cliff 2.5 meters high, 8 meters wide and 0.8 meters high from the water. It is said that“ There were 50 Taoist statues, half of which were destroyed when the stone was taken in 1953. There are now 25 Taoist statues and more than 50 statues& rdquo;& nbsp; The statue was chiseled in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Unfortunately, the inscription is seriously weathered and eroded, making it difficult to identify the year