With a length of 500 meters and in the shape of crescent, the Beishan Fowan has niches and caves as dense as beehives and arranged closely one by one. Rock carvings here were first started by Wei Junjing, prefect of Changzhou and military commander of Changzhou, Puzhou, Yuzhou and Hezhou, four districts in the 1st year of Jingfu reign of the late Tang Dynasty (892 A.D.). Then the lower middle class like local gentry, ordinary people, monks and nuns followed his example and kept building a large number of stone sculptures throughout the Five Dynasties and the Shaoxing reign of the Southern Song Dynasty, and finally ended carving in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In Beishan Fowan, the sculptures of the Tang Dynasty are plump and dignified, while those of the Five Dynasties are smaller and exquisite and attempting to have more decorations and patterns. The Song-dynasty sculptures are more decorative and graceful with distinctive personalities. The Beishan Rock Carvings standout among the Dazu Rock Carvings for its rich and diversified subject matters of Kwan-yin (Avalokitesvara) statues and is well-known as gallery of Tang-and-Song-Dynasty rock carvings art and museum of Chinese sculptures of Kwan-yin (Alokitesvara) statues.

Facing the Beishan Fowan, the Duobao Pagoda, also known as the North Pagoda, is located on the top of Beishan that is 1.5 kilometers north of Dazu urban area. The Duobao Pagoda was built from the seventeenth year to the twenty-fifth year of Shaoxing reign in the Southern Song Dynasty (1147-1155 A.D.). In the shape of a waist drum, it is an octangular brick pagoda that is 33 meters in height and consists of an exterior structure of 12 stories and an interior structure of 8 stories. The Pagoda opens windows in four directions, and along the pagoda center builds a stairway through which people could go straight to the summit of pagoda. In total, there are 131 niches of stone sculptures and inscriptions outside or inside the pagoda body. Beneath the pagoda is sculpted a large niche fitted in with two giant Buddha statues. Standing tall on a giant rock, the Duobao Pagoda looks beautiful and majestic and was known as North Pagoda on an Overhanging Rock and one of the Eight Views of Dazu during the Ming and Qing dynasties.