The essence of Weibei "Longmen Twenty Products"
Longmen Grottos
Longmen Grottoes are located13km south of Luoyang City, Henan Province. Because the Xiangshan Mountain and Longmen Mountain on the east and west sides of Yishui face each other like natural gates, it was called "Yi Que" in ancient times and Longmen after Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Longmen has magnificent mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery, so the poet Bai Juyi Ceng Yun said, "Luodu has four suburbs, and the mountains and rivers win, with Longmen as the head." Grottoes are densely distributed on the cliffs on both sides of the river, with a total length of 1 km. Together with Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Datong Yungang Grottoes, it is known as the three artistic treasures of China Grottoes.
The grottoes were dug around the time when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang (AD 494), and went through the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Northern China, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, among which the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty were built on a large scale, lasting 150 years.
According to the statistics after liberation, there are more than 2 100 caves, more than 40 pagodas, more than 3,600 inscriptions and more than 0.0000 statues in the whole mountain. Guyang Cave, Binyang Cave and Lianhua Cave in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Qianxi Temple, Wanfo Cave, Kanjing Temple and Fengxian Temple in the Tang Dynasty are all representative caves.
The statues of Dalu Shena Buddhist Shrine in Fengxian Temple are magnificent and beautifully carved, showing the superb skills of ancient artists. Wei Bei's essence "Longmen 20 Pin" and the famous calligrapher Chu Suiliang's "A Que Buddhist Shrine Monument" are treasures in the history of calligraphy art.
1400 years, Longzhan Grottoes have been eroded by natural weathering and destroyed by man.