Do I need to climb a mountain to go to Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang?

You need to climb a mountain to visit Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, because the Buddha statues in Longmen Grottoes are all built on the cliffs of the East and West Mountains.

Longmen Grottoes were first excavated when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to Luoyang. Later, it was built on a large scale for more than 400 years after the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Song Dynasty. Densely distributed on the cliffs of the east and west mountains of Yishui, the length from north to south is 1km, and there are more than 97,000 Buddha statues. The largest Buddha statue is as high as 17. 14 m, and the smallest is only 2 cm.

There are more than 50 large and medium-sized caves in the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties on the cliff of Xishan Mountain. Guyang Cave, Binyang Middle Cave, Lianhua Cave, Huangfugong Cave, Weizi Cave, Putai Cave, Huoshao Cave, Cixiang Kiln, Ludong Cave, etc. It is a representative grotto in the Northern Wei Dynasty, including Qianxi Temple, Binyang South Cave, Binyang North Cave, Jingshan Temple, Cliff Three Buddhas, Wanfo Cave, Huiji Cave and Fengxian Temple.

Pure Land Temple, Longge Temple and Jidan Cave are representative caves in the Tang Dynasty. There are many caves in Dongshan in the Tang Dynasty, including 20 large and medium-sized caves such as Erlianhua Cave, Kanjing Temple Cave, Dawan Five Buddha Cave and Gaoping County Wangdong Cave.

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Longmen Grottoes are also the art history and treasures of calligraphy. The famous calligraphy masterpiece "Longmen Twenty" is the best calligraphy selected by later northern extension connoisseurs from many stone inscriptions in Longmen Grottoes.

These inscriptions not only record the motive and purpose of the statue of the wishing man, but also provide a basis for the archaeological staging of the grottoes. Kang Youwei, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, strongly advocated the whole society to write in Wei stele style, and praised Wei Bei's ten beauties.

Such as: brushwork jumping, natural structure, rich flesh and blood, etc. Today, Wei Bei is widely used as a slogan and decorative text. It can be seen that twenty products occupy a decisive position in calligraphy.

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