Introduction to Chaoyang Cave: Chaoyang Cave is the first of the seventy-two caves in Taoshan Mountain. It is also the natural cave with the largest number of stone sculptures currently known in southwestern Shandong. According to the records of Feicheng County in the 17th year of Guangxu's reign: Chaoyang Cave, facing south, can only accommodate cars, is as wide as a hall, and is called the Chaoyang First Cave. If you climb to the twentieth level, it will be called the middle cave, and if you climb to the twentieth level, it will be twice as deep and wide. The front cave is the Chaoyang Shang Cave, with Buddha statues carved on all four walls of the cave. Chaoyang Cave is located on the cliffs on the north and south sides of Taoshan. The three characters "Chaoyang Cave" at the entrance of the cave were inscribed by Liu Quan in the 22nd year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1818). There are sixty-four stone statues inside, representing Buddha, Taoism, Guan Gong, etc.

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