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Yungang Grottoes, located in the north cliff of Wuzhou Mountain in the northwest of Shuitong City, Shanxi Province, is one of the three largest grottoes in China. It has a history of 1500 years, 53 main caves and more than 5 1000 statues.
Yungang Grottoes were founded in 450 AD. Emperor Wei Xiaowen ordered Yao Tan (Yintan Kiln) of Samoan family to dig five large grottoes (Cave 16-20), which were later called Tanyao Cave 5. The largest cave is Cave 6 (excavated during the reign of Emperor Wei Xiaowen), which is 20 meters high from the ground to the top of the cave. A large tower column with a width of about 60 square meters stands upright in the center and is connected with the roof of the cave. The whole tower column and cave wall are embedded with shrines and decorations of all sizes, so there is no space without carving. Most of Yungang Grottoes are works of Emperor Xiaowen Wei before he moved to Luoyang. The shapes of Buddha statues are generally thick lips, high nose, long eyes and wide shoulders, which show the characteristics of ethnic minorities.
The giant Buddha statue is tall and majestic, showing the unparalleled spirit. Other stone statues, each as low as one, obey the giant Buddha. Together with Feitian and Dwarfs, they serve the Buddha. Flying in the sky, holding a musical instrument, flying in the sky, shows the pleasure of serving in the shadow of the giant Buddha.
Zhu Soul, with short stature and thick trunk, was carved on the pedestal, under the beam and at the top of the column of the niche. And he lifted weights very hard, but his expression was still very happy, indicating that it was a pleasure to be a giant Buddha. The giant Buddha symbolizes the emperor, other stone statues at all levels are ministers, flying dwarfs are slaves and people who serve in various ways.
Under Yungang, there are several Longmen in Luoyang.
The following is a brief introduction of Longmen.
Longmen Grottoes, located at13km south of Luoyang, Henan, are called the three treasures of ancient Buddhist grottoes in China together with Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu and Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi. Longmen Grottoes were excavated when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to Luoyang (AD 494). Until the Northern Song Dynasty, there were more than 10 million Buddha statues and more than 2,300 grottoes. 196 1 was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council.
The Rushena Buddha in Fengxian Temple is said to be modeled after the sculpture of Wu Zetian.
Wei Dong-In 495 AD, Qiu Huicheng, the imperial clan of Wei State, began to dig Guyang Cave in Longmen Mountain. From 500 to 523, Emperor Wu and Emperor Di successively dug three large caves in the north, south and south of Binyang Cave. The construction of Shiyang Cave and Binyang Cave cost more than 800,000 people, and the Fangzi Cave and Lianhua Cave dug during the Eastern Wei Dynasty were also dug. Grottoes in the Northern Dynasties were all located in Longmen Mountain, and Guyang Cave was built for more than 50 years from the Hui Dynasty to the end of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, showing many China art forms, and the posture of the giant Buddha changed from the majestic Yungang Grottoes to the gentle and amiable Longmen Grottoes. The Buddha statue represented by the main Buddha in Binyang Middle Cave is smiling. Longmen Grottoes show more China art Buddha statues than Yungang Grottoes.
Tang grottoes-the most prosperous period is the Tang Dynasty, accounting for more than 60% of the total number of grottoes. During the reign of Wu Zetian, most of the grottoes in the Tang Dynasty were excavated, which was related to her long-term presence in Luoyang. Fengxian Temple is the most representative Tang grottoes, with two bodhisattvas 70 feet high, and Ye Jia, Ananda, King Kong and God King each 50 feet high (the length of the Tang Dynasty). The scale is the first in Longmen Grottoes. It took four years, and Wu Zetian paid 20,000 yuan herself.
Longmen 20 series products are precious calligraphy works of Wei Bei. Representing the stele style of Wei Dynasty, it is tall and straight, generous and powerful, and it is the font in the transition from official script to regular script, Guyangdong 19.
There are Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.
This is a brief introduction to Dunkui.
Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Cave, is located at the western end of Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, kilometers southeast of Dunhuang City. On the cliff more than 50 meters high at the eastern foot of Mingsha Mountain, caves are arranged layer by layer.
In the second year of Jianyuan in the former Qin Dynasty (AD 366), a monk with a legal name of Le Zun traveled here. Because he saw the golden light of Sanwei Mountain, which looked like a thousand buddhas, and realized that it was a Buddhist place, he cut the first Buddha hole on the cliff. Through the construction of past dynasties, there are more than 700 caves from Beiliang to Yuan Dynasty, with 50 1 10 square meters of murals and more than 2,700 colored sculptures.