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There are more than 600 Angkor monuments, which are distributed in forests with an area of 45 square kilometers. The Great Angkor Wat and the Small Angkor Wat are its main components, among which there are many exquisite pagodas and numerous stone carvings, which are very spectacular. These pagodas are all built with huge stones, some of which weigh more than 8 tons. The stupa is carved with statues of various shapes, some of which are as high as several meters, lifelike and lifelike. The five lotus-bud-like pagodas in Angkor Wat are towering into the sky and are exquisite buildings that Khmer people are proud of.

In addition to Angkor Wat, Angkor Wat and three capital centers, Banteay Srei and Sky Palace are also famous scenic spots in Angkor Wat. Tiangong is an all-stone structure building, which is said to have been built in 1 1 century. The palace is built on a high platform 12 meters high, which is pyramid-shaped and divided into three floors. There is a tower in the center of Taichung, painted golden and radiant. The high platform is surrounded by stone cloisters. Because the platform is high, it gives people a feeling of hanging in the air, hence the name.

Banteay Srei, known as the "Pearl of Angkor's Historic Sites", was originally named Shiva Palace, located about 25 kilometers northeast of Angkor. It was built in the first year of Yebama V of Angkor Dynasty (AD 968). It is 200 meters long and 100 meters wide, with three parallel tower-shaped shrines and a symmetrical annex hall in the middle. The Red Pagoda is built on a pedestal more than one meter high, and the tallest one in the middle is about 10 meter. The temple in the middle is dedicated to Shiva, the temple in the south is dedicated to Brahma and the temple in the north is dedicated to Vishnu.

There is a door in the east, south and north of each pagoda, and the height of the door is only 1.2 meters, so worshippers have to bend their knees to enter. In front of each door, there are a pair of stone carvings of patron saints, and on both sides of the wall, there are reliefs of warriors and fairies with spears. There are three surrounding towers around the pagoda temple. There are memorial archways, carved stone pillars and stone tablets between the inner and outer walls.

The whole tower group is magnificent, unique in architecture and exquisitely carved. Each pagoda is carved with statues of various ghosts and gods, Luo Cha. The shrines and gatehouses on both sides of Taki are also various reliefs, which mostly record the life scenes of the ancient Khmer people and the fighting scenes against foreign aggression. 143 1 When Angkor Wat was captured by Siam in, Ban Diez Mine was also destroyed.

Most of Angkor's buildings have collapsed into ruins, but the scale and dazzling architectural art of Angkor's monuments are still amazing. Archaeologists call it the Four Wonders of the East together with the Great Wall in China, the pyramids in Egypt and the Borobudur in Indonesia. As a representative of Cambodia's early architectural style, 1992, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee listed the entire Angkor site in the World Cultural Heritage List.

Angkor Wat

Angkor Wat (also called Xiaowuge Cave) is the best preserved temple building in the whole site. Today, Cambodians put it on their national flag, which shows the sacred position of Angkor Wat in the eyes of Cambodians. Angkor Wat was originally built to worship Hindu gods, but today it has evolved into a Buddhist temple. At the four corners of the square square, there is a stone pagoda, and a higher stone pagoda stands in the center of the square, symbolizing the mythical holy mountain. Both Hindus and Buddhists believe that this sacred place in the middle is the center of the universe. Angkor Wat is built on the foundation of three steps, and there are stone corridors around the abutment of each floor. Most of the reliefs are based on the fairy tales in the famous Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. On both sides of the central avenue of the temple are hydra railings. According to Cambodian legend, Hydra will bring good weather. There are moats and pools around the temple, not to protect the temple, but to make the temple more sacred and majestic through the reflection in the water. Angkor Wat is a masterpiece of human beings, but every design is to reflect divinity. Being in the Buddha statue of Angkor Wat, I can't tell whether I am standing in God's territory or human space. Divinity and space meet in this ancient city in the dense forest.

When it comes to Angkor Wat, people will naturally think of the last scene of In the Mood for Love: a man tells a secret of his feelings that he can't tell others or even face himself in a cave in Angkor Wat, and then covers it, so that the story in In the Mood for Love will stay in Angkor Wat from now on. Everything here, including his secrets, will be taken away by nature and become an eternal memory. At the end of the cross platform of the central building is the central building complex of Angkor Wat. Basically, it is surrounded by a rectangular cloister, which consists of large, medium and small Sumitomo, stacked in the order of large outside and small inside, with five lotus pagodas standing in the center as the apex, symbolizing Sumitomo Mountain. Irina Manica, an American scholar, explained that the three corridors represent the King, Brahman, Moon and Vishnu respectively. A corridor door is built at each base point of each corridor, with two floors of corridors, four corners and four towers, and four towers on each floor. The central pagoda forms a quincunx pattern. Because the temple faces west, the position of the upper floor of Sumitomo is not in the middle of the lower floor of Sumitomo, but slightly to the east, leaving more space for the west corridor; For the same reason, the steps in the west are not as steep as those in the east.

The first floor of Sumitomo is made of sand and stones, about 3 meters above the ground; Above Mount Sumi, there is a 3-meter-high cloister that surrounds Angkor Wat. The cloister is rectangular, with a length of190m from north to south and a length of 220m from east to west. Around the cloister, there are four towers and eight corridors, one tower at each corner, three corridors in the east and west, and one corridor in the north and south. There are two stone steps inside and outside the tower gate and corridor gate, which can lead to the inner and outer courtyards on the first floor of the temple. The inner wall of the cloister is not only the outer wall of the temple, but also a giant corridor. On the outside of the cloister, there are two rows of obelisks side by side, one of which supports the vault of the cloister and the other supports the porch of the half vault. The double-eaves vault of the cloister is covered with pottery tiles to protect the stone carvings on the cloister wall from the sun and rain.

The stone wall of the gallery is lined with eight giant reliefs carefully carved by sculptors. Each relief is more than 2 meters high and nearly 100 meters long, all of which are more than 700 meters long and walk around the temple. The relief depicts the stories in two famous Indian Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as the history of some Angkor dynasties. Clockwise from the northwest corner, the West Corridor shows the scene in which Rama, the prince of ayutthaya, defeats ravana, the demon king of Rocha, and the Wawa and war stories of Bandu in Mahabharata. There are several reliefs in the South Gallery, which are related to the history of Angkor Dynasty. One of them depicts Suliye Paimo II wearing a crown, sitting cross-legged barefoot on the throne, with his left hand pointing to the left and his hand resting on the armrest of the throne. The left and right attendants each hold a long fan to fan the king, and a maid-in-waiting behind him holds a giant candle and lights it during the day. Then there are 32 levels of hell and 37 levels of heaven in Indian mythology. The East Gallery depicts a famous story in planas, an ancient Indian myth: Vishnu stirs the sea of milk: Vishnu ordered 92 statues of Asura and 88 gods to fill the sea of milk with a rope. Next, Vishnu defeated Asura, which was added by later generations in the16th century. The North Gallery shows Vishnu's eighth incarnation defeating Banna of Asura in the dark. The paintings in the corridors in the northwest corner and southwest corner are smaller, and most of them describe the story of Ramayana or the dark sky. Enter the west gate of the cloister on the first floor, and step into a pavilion called "Thousand Buddhas Pavilion", surrounded by cloisters. Tianzi Pavilion is divided into four courtyards by the central cross verandah, and its ground is about one meter lower than the cross verandah and cloister. It used to be a pool, but now it doesn't store water. The north-south corridor of Tian Zi Pavilion is about 3 meters wide, with the outer side closed and the inner side with double rows of square columns. The cross verandah is made up of two verandahs crossing into a cross, and each verandah consists of a middle verandah, a left verandah and a right verandah, supported by four rows of square columns. Two rows of inner columns support the central corridor, and two rows of outer columns support their respective inclined corridors. The central corridor is about 3 meters wide and 4.5 meters high. The upper part is a wall and the lower part is a square column. There are flying female reliefs at the bottom of the stone pillars, and some pillars and walls are painted deep red, from which we can see the glorious scene of Angkor Wat in its heyday more than 800 years ago. The top of the main gallery is in the shape of an egg-pointed arch covered with tiles. The left and right verandahs are about 2.5 meters wide and 3 meters high. The total width of the veranda is about 8 meters. For centuries, pilgrims left many Buddha statues in pavilions, but most of them were removed. There are also many inscriptions praising the good deeds of worshippers in the pavilion, most of which are in Khmer and some are in Burmese. The courtyard outside the Tian Painting and Calligraphy Pavilion is the inner courtyard on the first floor of the temple, which is like an inverted zigzag. In the northwest corner and southwest corner of the paddock on the first floor, there is a sutra depository. The North Gallery, the Middle Gallery and the West Gallery of Tian Zi Pavilion each have a second-floor wall of Xitong Temple with stone steps.

The abutment on the second floor is five and a half meters higher than the abutment on the first floor, and there is also a rectangular corridor around it, which is about 1 15 meters long from east to west and about 100 meters wide from north to south. The cloister has no stone pillars or inclined corridors. There are vertical gourds and windows on both walls, and there are reliefs of the gods in the middle. The cloister has ten cloister doors, one at each corner, one in the north and south, and three in the west. Each porch gate has two stone steps, inside and outside, leading to the first inner court and the second inner court respectively. Three porches in the west lead to the Tian Zi Pavilion in the first exhibition hall. On the second floor, a pagoda stands at the top of the tower door at the four corners of the cloister; Due to years of disrepair, the tops of the four pagodas are mostly defective, and only two or three floors are left in the nine-story pagoda. There is a small sutra depository in the southwest and northwest corner of the inner courtyard of the second enclosure. The two pavilions are connected by the north-south road of a cross balcony, and the east-west road of the balcony connects the west gate of the corridor on the second floor and the west gate of the corridor on the third floor. This cross balcony was also added by later generations. The third abutment of the temple, that is, the innermost and highest abutment, is called Bagan. It is square and shaped like a pyramid, but it is composed of two sections, with12m, which is twice as high as the first abutment and the second abutment. There are twelve steps around the platform, three in the southeast and northwest, and the twelve steps are very steep. You must climb on your knees with your hands and feet, which symbolizes the hardships of climbing to heaven. The sky-shaped heavy eaves gallery above the steps is 60 meters square, with five lotus towers and a tower door at each corner. In the middle stands a 42-meter-high main tower, the top of which is 65 meters above the ground. The main tower is higher than the quadrangular tower. Five pagodas are arranged in a five-point plum blossom pattern. There is a shrine in each tower. The shrine of the main tower was originally a square building with a statue of Vishnu in the middle. After the seat was changed to Buddhism, there was a Buddha statue in the middle, surrounded by three Buddha walls. Between the tower gates, between the tower gates and the main tower, it is connected by Tianzi Gallery. Tian Zi Art Museum consists of cloisters and cross corridors. The cloister is divided into two parts: the main gallery and the inclined gallery. There are vertical gourd lattice windows on the outer wall of the main corridor, and rectangular railing windows on the four basic points of due east, due west, due south and due north. The inside of the main gallery is a column row, and there is a vault five meters high on the main gallery, and columns are arranged on the inside of the inclined gallery, and the half vault is three meters high. The cross veranda has a corridor, two side corridors, a vault, two semi-vaults and two rows of square columns. The vault and semi-vault of Tian Zi Gallery are paved with tiles. A lion-headed snake is carved on the ceiling at the top of the gallery, and the entrances to the gallery and shrine are covered with carved lintels and triangular walls. There are corridor doors in the middle of the southeast, northwest and four corridors, and each corridor door has steps leading to the second floor; The tower doors at the four corners of the cloister each have two steps leading to the second floor.

angkor city

Another well-preserved site of Angkor Wat (also called the Great Angkor Wat) is Miyagi of the Khmer Empire. It is the "heart" of Angkor. In the center of Angkor Wat, Yan Nabuma VII built the bayon temple. There are 54 pagodas in Bayon, and the top of each pagoda is carved with a huge four-faced Buddha symbolizing the king. They smiled and looked around from the top of the tower, symbolizing the supremacy of kingship and the sanctity of Buddhism. This is the tallest cotton stone carving. No matter where you stand, you can see the tall Buddha statues and feel their potential deterrent, which makes people feel awe.

Angkor Wat is a city surrounded by cities, with a length of12km. There is a stone bridge on the moat outside the south gate of Angkor Wat. There are a row of 54 stone busts on the railings on both sides of the bridge, one representing the gods and the other representing the demons. They have the serpent king incarnated by cobra in their hands. It is said that there were many crocodiles in the moat about 100 meters wide in ancient times to resist the enemy's attack. Drilling into the small south gate, the old trees leaning on the ground are neatly arranged on both sides of the road. There is a gentle morning light in the gap between the trees, the breeze blows, and the dead leaves click on the front window of the car and fall to the ground, which is unspeakable. In the center of Angkor Wat, a spectacular bayon temple was built according to the Buddhist concept of Mount Sumi. Around the central minaret are 49 Buddhist pagodas, all of which are carved with huge Buddhist faces. These mysterious Buddha faces smile and have different expressions, which are somewhat mysterious in silence. The four faces of the four-faced Buddha represent kindness, sadness, joy and abandonment respectively, and sadness and joy are intangible. The murals in the cloister of Baiyun Temple are also rich, ranging from palace fights to citizens' lives, but the mysterious "Khmer smile" of the four-faced Buddha leaves the deepest impression on tourists.

Within the scope of Angkor Wat, there are also famous buildings such as Baphoun Temple, Phimeanakas, LeperKing and TerraceofElephants.

In the center of the capital, there are palaces, libraries, bathrooms and monasteries.

In the center of the city, there is also a famous building about 300 meters long-elephant platform, which is said to be the parade platform for the king to review the troops at that time. One big platform, two small platforms. There are stone statues on the left and right sides of the platform, and the ministers of the dynasty ride on it. This is consistent with the stone statues set in front of the imperial tomb in China, but there are more kinds in China. There are 12 small red towers in the square in front of the parade ground. What function is not clear, Cambodians can't answer, but they have several opinions about how Angkor Wat was abandoned. Legend has it that in A.D. 1 17 1 year, after Angkor was looted by neighboring countries, King Yebama VII lost confidence in the protective ability of Hindu gods, so all Kimi people gave up Hinduism and converted to Buddhism, and adopted a peaceful lifestyle of giving up violence. Due to this change in religious belief, the Thai army occupied and looted Angkor in A.D. 143 1 without any resistance.

There is also a Buddhist legend that King Jimmy was angered by a priest's son and drowned him in Tonle Sap Lake. The angry gods decided to avenge the priest's son, which led to the flooding of the lake and destroyed Angkor.

Built in the heyday of Angkor Wat more than 800 years ago, this building tells the glory of that year with its exquisite stone carvings, long cloisters and magnificent stone pagodas. Angkor is known as "photographer's paradise" because there are endless amorous feelings, endless incomplete beauty and endless mysterious stories.