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Longmen Grottoes
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 The Longmen Grottoes lies in the south of Henan Province Luoyang.It and the Dunhuang Caves of Gansu,Yungang Grottoes of Da Tong,Shanxi call China three major treasure-houses of ancient art of Buddhism rock cave . The gentle emperor of filial piety moves the capital to another place in Luoyang( A.D. 494) to dig it in Northern Wei Dynasty in the Longmen Grottoes, until Northern Song Dynasty, The number of the extant statue of Buddha is more than 100,000,the number of the cave shrine is more than 2, 300. Classified as the national major historical and cultural sites under state protection by the State Council in 1961 . Wei cave -Wei intelligent to become and begin in mountain of Longmen cut the ancient south of a hill hole, 500 mound imperial clan A.D. 495 --One year Wei emperor, Wei bright emperors cut Binyang the north middle and southern 3 a piece of heavy rock caveseses of hole in succession, And Binyang hole build fee artificial 800,000 more thans altogether south of a hill hole stone, turn on and dig prescription hole and cut lotus flower hole,etc. rock cave when the the Eastern Wei Dynasty. North is all on the mountain of Longmen towards rock caves , the ancient south of a hill hole since becomes to the construction of more than 50 years of the end of the Eastern Wei Dynasty intelligently , It shows and fall out China art forms more too at cloud hillock rock cave robust to fear and change heavy Buddha postures into. The statue of Buddha represented by main Buddha of hole in Binyang , personage's face smiles including , The Longmen Grottoes demonstrates more artistics statue of Buddha of China than the hillock rock cave of cloud. Tang cave --It is the Tang Dynasty to hold one most,accounts for more than 60% of the total amount of rock caves , the rock caves cut in period in power of Wu Zetian constitute the majority of the rock cave of the Tang Dynasty, Relate to the fact that she has Luoyang for a long time. It its presents with respect to be a t temple most representative Tang cave 23.3 of Bodhisattvas wait till leaf, difficult , supernatural king 40 meters high each Buddha's warrior attendant A( length of the Tang Dynasty). Big scale, it calls the first among the Longmen Grottoes spend for 4 years successively, Wu Zetian offers 20,000 of money to pass through by oneself. |
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