During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Buddhism was advocated and the wind of carving holes and praying for blessings prevailed. "Stone Statue" is an inscription on the stone statue made at that time, full of superstitious religious color, but its words are the treasures of calligraphy art, which broke the weak calligraphy style of the Southern Dynasties, created a typical monument in the North, and spread to the world with masculine beauty.
Statue, that is, Buddha sculpture. Statues and monuments began in the Northern Wei Dynasty and ended in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Most of them were created by Sakyamuni, Maitreya, Guanyin and Shi Zhi. At first, it was nothing more than carving stones, cliffs, monuments, or temples, and then painting with gold. The sculptor calls himself a disciple of Buddha, a disciple who believes in Buddha, a clear woman and an excellent woman. The people who contribute to the statue are called the elephant master and the deputy elephant master.
Longmen Grottoes:
Longmen Grottoes is one of the treasures of stone carving art in China, a world cultural heritage, a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction. It is located in Longmen Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain on both sides of the Yi River in the southern suburbs of Luoyang City. It is one of the four largest grottoes in China (the other three grottoes are Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu, Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi and Maijishan Grottoes in Tianshui).
It was dug in the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then it was built on a large scale in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty for more than 400 years, with a length of 1 km from north to south. Today, there are 2345 caves, more than 654.38 million statues and more than 2800 inscriptions. Among them, Longmen Twenty is the essence of Weibei calligraphy, and Chu Suiliang's A Que Buddhist Shrine Monument is a model of regular script art in the early Tang Dynasty.