During the latest two decades, there were continually discovery of various kinds of Buddhist stone statues and steles of the sixth century around Qingzhou, the middle region of Shangdon Province. The discovered objects indicate a very unique style that harmoniously unifies the strength and elegance. Initially, this paper exams the geographical boundary of Qingzhou region in the middle sixth century according to the official history records, “Wei shu” and “Suei shu”, and the inscriptions on the excavated steles. Based on the former research, the author has focused on the materials excavated from Qingzhou and the sites nearby including Boxing, Guangrao, Chuangyi, Linchu, Linqu, Gaoqing, Changchio, Wudi, Hueimin, Yangxin, Zhuzheng. Through the comparison of the statues and steles from different sites, the distinctions of the forms, techniques and decorations could be revealed, so that the conclusion for the characteristics of Qingzhou statues can be made. Furthermore, the paper detailed analyzes the statues and then classifies them into several types. In order to thoroughly analyze the causes of the unique style of Qingzhou statues, the author further probes the social structure of the sixth century, which derives into two aspects as following: Primarily, the strong and full figure had become a new and general principle of Northern Qi statues, which completely replaced the original skinny and fragile style of Eastern Wei. Further, the paper has cited a rather large amount of records in the official history, and indicates the ideology of Northern Qi rejecting and excluding the Han culture. Additionally, in order to oppose and eliminate the Han culture, the aristocracy enthusiastically imported the fashion from the West Region instead and it had entirely changed the workmanship in the early sixth century. Secondarily, the complicated and luxurious decorative way of Qingzhou is rarely seen in other regions in Northern Qi. It might be caused by its specific historical background. According to the official history records, Qingzhou was long dominated by the higher Han families that showed deep influence on Han culture. Besides, geographical region of Qingzhou was a shaped plain of long in north and south and narrow in east and west, and the ocean is just nearby which brought Qingzhou the convenience and benefits of marine transit making it no difficulties to contact the outside world. Under the influences of the two aspects mentioned above, the unique style that is strong and full but delicate and exquisite as well finally appeared in the sixth century and impressed the people in this post-modern time.
