Yungang Grottoes, located in the northern cliff of Wuzhou Mountain in the western suburb of Datong City, Shanxi Province, is one of the largest ancient grottoes in China, with a length of 1000 meters from east to west, 45 existing main grottoes, 252 large and small grottoes and more than 5 1000 stone carvings. ? Yungang Grottoes, one of the three largest grottoes in China, is a world-famous art treasure house. ? Among dozens of caves in Yungang, the fifth cave of Tan Yao is the earliest and the most magnificent. Wuliu Cave and Wuhua Cave are rich and colorful, which are the essence of Yungang art.
Second place: Mogao Grottoes?
Mogao Grottoes, also known as "Thousand Buddha Cave", is located at the foot of Mingsha Mountain, 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang County, and is named after its location in Mogao Grottoes. It is the largest and most famous Buddhist art grottoes in China. It is distributed in three or four layers on the cliff of Mingsha Mountain, with a total length of 1.6 km. There are 492 existing grottoes, with a total area of 45,000 square meters of murals and more than 265,438 colored sculptures. Grottoes vary in size, statues vary in height, the big ones are magnificent, the small ones are exquisite, the accomplishments are deep and the imagination is amazing. Murals are mostly Buddhist stories, such as Sakyamuni's life story, previous life sacrifice and so on. ? "Escape", big also, "Ming", sheng also. Because this place plays a very important role in developing the vast western regions, it has been named "Dunhuang" since the Han Dynasty. ?
Third place: Yulin Cave?
Yulin Grottoes, commonly known as Wanfo Gorge, is located on the Yulin River (also known as Zhen Shi River) 75 kilometers southwest of Anxi County. There are 42 caves in the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, the Xixia Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, which are distributed on the cliffs on the east and west sides of Yulin, with 428 murals on the east cliff 3 1 and the west cliff 165438. Due to natural and man-made reasons, there are few original colored sculptures in Yulin Cave, and most of the existing colored sculptures are rebuilt or reshaped by later generations. ? Yulin Grottoes, the sister grottoes of Mogao Grottoes, are closely related or similar to Mogao Grottoes in terms of content, artistic style, painted sculptures and murals, but they are obviously different in many aspects and have their own unique artistic style. Especially after the Five Dynasties, the art of Mogao Grottoes showed an obvious decline trend, while Yulin Grottoes showed its characteristics of the times and unique artistic charm in terms of content, painting style and artistic level, thus enriching the connotation of this treasure house. ?
Fourth place: Longmen Grottoes?
Longmen, called yique in ancient times, was generally called Longmen after Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it has been in use ever since. Located in the south of Luoyang 12.5km. Green hills here, east and west facing each other, and Wang Yang flowing from central to north, are one of the three major Buddhist art treasures in China. The statues of Longmen Grottoes are densely distributed on both sides of Yishui and east-west cliffs. ? According to the statistics of Longmen Wu Wen Custody 1962, there are more than 2 100 caves and statues in the two mountains, with the largest statue as high as 17 m and the smallest only 2 cm. There are about 3600 inscriptions and stone tablets and more than 40 pagodas. ?
Fifth place: Maijishan Grottoes?
Maijishan Grottoes, located about 40 kilometers south of Tianshui City, is one of the four largest grottoes in China. It was founded in the Sixteen Kingdoms and the late Qin Dynasty, and it has been 1500 years since its reconstruction. There are 0/94 caves/kloc-,more than 7,200 statues, murals 1300 square meters, especially clay sculpture art, which is known as the "Oriental Sculpture Art Museum". There are 140 grottoes in Xiya, mainly works from the Western Qin Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty. There are 54 caves in the East Cliff, where most of the works from the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties and beyond are concentrated. Maijishan Grottoes are mostly works before Sui and Tang Dynasties, among which seven buddha Pavilion, Wanfo Cave, Niuertang and Ji Ling are the most famous. The fourth cave, built in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, also known as the Upper seven buddha Pavilion, is the most wonderful cave in McKee. ?
Sixth place: Bingling Temple Grottoes?
Bingling Temple Grottoes, located 80 kilometers southwest of Lanzhou, are cultural treasures on the Silk Road. Grottoes * * * have 34 caves, 149 niches, 800 stone sculptures and clay sculptures, and 900 square meters of murals. ? Founded in the first year of the Western Qin Dynasty (about 420 AD), it is a major Buddhist resort in the Ming Dynasty. Among them, there is a sitting Buddha on the rock wall, 27 meters high. The sculpture is vivid and vivid, which fully shows the superb skills of artists in the Northern Wei Dynasty. ?
Seventh place: Xiangtang Temple Grottoes?
Xiangtang Temple Grottoes, located in the new urban area of Handan City, Hebei Province, were built in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and were added in the late Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Xiangtang Temple is divided into two caves, north and south, with a distance of 15km. There are 16 caves and 3400 statues. The stone carvings in the cave are exquisite and ingenious. Its affiliated buildings are large in scale, with pavilions and pavilions built on the mountain, which is a precious heritage of ancient architecture, sculpture, painting and calligraphy in China. ?
Eighth place: Qizil Thousand Buddha Cave
Qizil Grottoes (or Thousand Buddha Caves in Qizil) are located in Mingwutag Mountain in Qizil Township, Baicheng County, adjacent to Kuqa. These caves were dug on the cliffs on the north bank of Muzate Valley. Qizil Grottoes and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are called "Four Grottoes" in China. However, Qizil Grottoes is the earliest excavated grottoes in China, which was built in the 3rd century, even earlier than the Mogao Grottoes. There are 236 numbered caves, including 35 caves 135 with complete shapes and 80 murals, with a total area of 1 10,000 square meters. Its unique cave shape and murals can represent the level of Qiuci culture and have high research value.
Ninth place: Gongxiandong Temple?
Gongxian Cave Temple is another treasure house of Buddhist art in the Northern Wei Dynasty after Longmen Grottoes. It is located about 55 kilometers northeast of Luoyang, Kyoto, on the stone wall under Dali Mountain in the east of Mangshan Mountain. Go back to the Yellow River and face the Ilo. It has been one of the famous tourist attractions in Luoyang since ancient times, with beautiful mountains and rivers, lush trees and lush bamboo forests. Cave Temple, formerly known as Xixuan Temple, is a magnificent building complex. There are five grottoes, 1,000 shrines, 255 small shrines, three huge cliffs, 7,743 grottoes and more than 200 inscriptions.
Tenth place: Bai Zi Kerry Thousand Buddha Cave?
There are 83 caves on the cliffs on the west bank of Mugougu in the middle of the Flame Mountain, more than 40 kilometers southeast of Turpan, among which more than 40 have murals of 1.200 square meters. The earliest cave excavation was in the heyday of the 6th century, and in the middle of the 9th century, Gaochang Kingdom was Uighur. Buddha statues and murals have been damaged to the same extent, partly for religious reasons and partly by explorers in the 20th century.