The Wonderful Longmen Grottoes Tour with Onlinechinatravel

Central Plains and cultural treasures: Longmen Grottoes

Longmen Grottoes
Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang City, central China's Henan Province, the southern suburbs of 12.5 km at the Longmen Gorge things Liangya the cliff. Here Xiangshan (East) and Longmen (West) confrontation between the northern Iraqi mountain stream water at a distance, like a natural door Jue, called the "Iranian rhetoric." Sui Dynasty capital of Luoyang, the door face by Miyagi, "Iran rhetoric" and before "Dragon." Longmen Grottoes in Iraq on the clouds of water up to 1 km of cross two cliff walls. According to the Longmen Grottoes Research Institute of Statistics: Longmen Grottoes existing more than 2,100 caves, there Kukan 2345, more than 2800 blocks of stone inscriptions, pagoda than 40 seats, 10 thousand statues statue. One of the biggest statues of up to 17.14 m, the smallest only 2 centimeters. Longmen Grottoes in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in Gansu with, Shanxi Datong Yungang Grottoes and called China's three ancient Buddhist grotto art treasure house, with a very high historical value and artistic value. The group of statues carved beautiful, intricate, fully reflects the working people of our ancient wisdom and consummate skill.

Longmen Grottoes dug around in the Northern Wei capital Luoyang (AD 495), later after Western Wei, Eastern Wei, Northern Qi, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties to the construction, resulting in the formation of a north-south where up to one kilometer with a two thousand seat Kukan and more than 100,000 statues statue of the grotto remains. In the last 500 years to create a process, including the Northern Wei and Tang climax stage of the two statues. So far, kept in Yique these two mountains, like thousands of niches, the vast majority are created by the two periods. Of which 30% of the Northern Wei caves, about 60% of the Tang Dynasty, the other about 10% during the Kukan. Northern Wei period, a large cave, there are Guyang hole Binyang in the hole, Lotus Cave, fire hole, Wei word hole, cave temples and pute holes, holes in the road, and so on. The Tang Dynasty, the main cave are the Fengxian Temple, Binyang South Cave, North Cave Binyang, latent River Temple, King Shan Temple, poke holes, two kilns, Hui simple hole, drum sets of three holes, Cao Bang Dukes hole, see The Temple, Tang word hole, extreme south-hole, the Pure Land Hall and Ma Ya three shrines, and so on.