Vishnu Temple-Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat, also known as Angkor Wat Temple, is located in Cambodia. It is known as Cambodia's national treasure, the largest temple building in the world and the earliest Khmer building in the world. Cambodia was called Khmer in ancient times, and Angkor Wat was originally named Vrah Vishnulok, which means "Temple of Vishnu".

Angkor Wat is the best preserved temple in Angkor Wat. It is famous for its magnificent buildings and detailed reliefs, and it is also the largest temple in the world. /kloc-for more than 0/00 years, countries all over the world have invested a lot of money in the maintenance project of Angkor Wat to protect this world cultural heritage. The shape of Angkor Wat has become a national symbol of Cambodia and is displayed on the national flag of Cambodia.

Historical background: The history of Angkor Dynasty began in the 9th century. The first King Jayavarman II led the country out of Java and restored Cambodian independence. In 802 AD, he became king on his own, and his capital was Mount Cullen. Through the efforts of several generations of kings, by the beginning of 12 century, the territory of Angkor Dynasty had expanded to most of Thailand today, and each generation of kings built their own national temples. /kloc-At the beginning of the 20th century, Troni Indravarman I, uncle of Suriye Pomona II, won the throne of Zhenla, and the new king moved the capital to Angkor. Because Zuriye Pomo II gained the throne by unorthodox methods.

In order to consolidate its prestige, it is necessary to build a temple larger than more than 700 temples built by kings of past dynasties, as a national temple and its own ancestral temple to ascend to heaven in the future. Dibharata, a brahmin priest who crowned the king, designed this ancestral temple for the king and dedicated it to Vishnu, and named it "Vishnu Temple".

Architectural structure: The architecture of Angkor Wat is solemn, symmetrical and harmonious in proportion. Both architectural skills and sculpture art have reached a high level. Angkor Wat faces east and west, with a rectangular plane and double stone walls. Covering an area of 1 1,000,850 square meters, with trenches outside the external wall. The trench is190m wide,1.500m long from east to west,1.300m wide from north to south and about 5.6km in circumference. The main entrance of Angkor Wat is in the west, which is connected with the avenue outside the south gate of Dawangkor Wat. There are three towers on the gate, and there is a courtyard inside the gate. There is a 147-meter-long avenue to the east of the courtyard leading to the entrance of the inner wall.

Cambodia, known as Khmer in ancient times, is an ancient civilization with a long history. As early as 1 century, a unified kingdom was established. The Angkor Dynasty in the 9th-14th century was the most glorious era in Cambodian history.

The artistic masterpiece of Angkor Wat is not only reflected in the building itself, but also in its relief stone carvings. The reliefs of Angkor Wat are extremely exquisite and lifelike, which are the essence of the whole Angkor Wat art. There are reliefs on the inner wall, colonnade, stone wall, cornerstone, window lintel and railing of Angkor Wat, mainly telling the legend of Vishnu, a Hindu god.

Among them, the corridor around the first floor of the main hall is called "relief corridor", which is 800 meters long and the wall is more than 2 meters high, and the wall is covered with relief. The east wall is the legend of "the milk sea churning", the north wall is the battle map of Vishnu and the monster, the west wall is the continuation of this story, that is, the "monkey-assisted war map", and the western part of the south wall is a secular theme, reflecting the war scene of Khmer resistance to occupation.

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