The Longmen Grottoes (in Luoyang) Editorial Photo

Longmen grottoes is one of the Chinese stone carving art treasure house, is the national AAAAA level scenic area, located in the south of henan luoyang river on both sides of the longmen mountain and the fragrant hills. After digging in the northern wei emperor xiaowen, through eastern wei, wei, beiqi, sui, tang and five dynasties, song dynasty such as large-scale building for more than 400 years in a row, north and south, 1 km, this entity grottoes, 2345, more than 100000 Buddha statues, inscriptions by more than 2800 products. Longmen twenty of them are calligraphy wei rubbings essence, ChuSuiLiang book by que buddhist monument is the apotheosis of the art of the early regular script. Longmen grottoes duration long, spanning dynasty, to a large number of physical image and text data from different sides reflects the ancient Chinese political, economic, religious, cultural and many other areas of development, the innovation and development of Chinese grotto art has made a significant contribution. In 2000 by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage.