一个唐官带来的石窟千佛崖全长380余米,西高东低状若扁平的直角三角形,现存石窟873窟,造像7000余尊。这个数据比清人的记载足足少了整整1万尊。曾传言1922年,国民政府在修川陕公路时曾将千佛崖南段一部分石窟炸毁,造成千佛崖石窟被毁大半。但中国社会科学院学者指出,金牛道依崖而过,川陕公路只是在此基础上进行拓宽,工程量并不大,所以大半石窟被毁之说不实。清人的统计不无夸大之嫌。千佛崖石窟与入蜀上任的唐朝官员渊源颇深。唐开元二年太子左庶子韦抗接到唐玄宗令他赴益州出任剑南道按察使、大都督府长史的上谕后,沿嘉陵江驿道入蜀利州(广元)赴任。韦抗在到任利州第二年就找来石匠在千佛崖开龛凿像。这是一个三米多高的马蹄形洞窟,佛祖端坐中央,南北两壁雕满了观音,窟壁上密密麻麻地排列 A Tang Guan brought the cave Buddha Cliff full length of more than 380 meters, if the West-East low if flat rectangular triangle, the existing caves Cave 873, statues of more than 7,000 statue. This data is less than the full record of a full 10,000 people. It was rumored that in 1922, the Nationalist government destroyed and destroyed part of the Grottoes in the southern section of the Thousand Buddha Cliffs during the Xiuchuan-Shaan Highway, resulting in the destruction of the Thousand Buddha Cliff Grottoes. However, academics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences pointed out that according to the cliffs passing through the cliffs of Jinnao Road, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway only broadened on the basis of such a large amount of works, so that most of the caves were destroyed. Qing statistics is not without exaggeration. Qian Foya Grottoes and Shu into office of the Tang officials deep roots. Tang Kaiyuan two years ago Prince Edward left bastard Wei received Emperor Xuanzong ordered him to go to Yizhou as Jiannan Road, according to the investigation, the captaincy government long history of the encyclical, along the Jialing River post into the Shu Li (Guangyuan) to the office. Wei Kang arrived in Libya the second year to find a stonemason in the Thousand Buddha Cliff opening niche carved like. This is a three-meter-high horseshoe-shaped caves, Buddha sitting in the center, north and south wall carved Guanyin, densely arranged on the wall of the cave