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Meditation in front of the grotto
The Yellow River is like a thousand-year-old scroll, and the waves are full of cultural thickness, both the desolation of dynasties and the pearl-like embellishment of cultural sites.
Standing in front of the grotto in the museum, looking at the smoky Buddha statues, pilgrims continue to pray with incense, I meditate. It is believed that this square grotto still belongs to the Yellow River, which gives it life, and the Yellow River also makes these Buddha statues worry about their stomachs.
Accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, and listening to the rise and fall of the waves, are the Buddha statues lying in a corner now lonely? On the south bank of the Yellow River Bali Hutong, the porters were shouting sonorous trumpets and fighting with the waves of the Yellow River, and suddenly found a spectacular grotto on the stone cliff in front of them, and the startled porters and boatmen crawled on the ground to prostrate themselves to pray for safety.
The grotto was originally located in the South Stone Cliff above the West Wo Ferry of the Yellow River, which was discovered by the masses when the mountain was built in 1975, and was named the West Wo Grottoes in the 1984 Luoyang Cultural Relics Census, which attracted the attention of cultural relics protection experts. As the only Northern Wei grotto on the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Xiwo Grottoes have important cultural relics, historical and artistic value, and were designated as provincial cultural relics protection units in 1986. It was protected and relocated to the Chiang Chi Sai Museum during the construction of the Xiaolangdi Reservoir.
The original site of the Siwo Grottoes sits south to the north, the westernmost side opens two caves, the east side is carved with four cliff pagodas and many small niches, and fifteen meters to the east there is a Standing Buddha, about two meters high, and now the grotto and the Standing Buddha have been combined into a whole and relocated to a corner of the East Courtyard of the Thousand Tang Zhizhai Temple.
From the records of the grotto statues, it can be seen that the Xiwo Grottoes were built between the first year of Xiaochang of Northern Wei (525 AD) and the first year of Northern Wei Putai (531). During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Buddhism rose and Buddhism developed unprecedentedly, from temple princes to ordinary people, translating scriptures, building temples, and carving statues became a common practice. During the construction of the Xiwo Grottoes, the Northern Wei regime was already in turmoil, and the people who could not control their fate hoped to build the Buddha Statue Caves in the hope of Fuze, Yanhuangzuo, and Ninghe.
Judging from the characteristics of the Buddha statues in the Xiwo Grottoes, the Buddha statues are dressed in a belt-style robe, the chest is made of a "U" shaped open chest, revealing the slanted collar and knot belt of the inner robe, the huge robe droops, almost covering the entire square pedestal, and its clothing characteristics are similar to the Buddha statues of the Longmen Grottoes and Gongyi Grottoes, which is a Central Plains costume. After the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Hong moved the capital to Luoyang, he devoted himself to the sinicization reform, and officially promulgated the Sinicization policy, issuing an edict to use Hanfu as an official uniform, so the Buddha statues in the Xiwo Grottoes wore wide robes and large sleeves, which was a manifestation of the further Sinicization of Chinese Buddhist art.
Xiwo Grottoes not only has the significance of protecting the border and the people, praying for the Funing River, but also has unique value in inscriptions, calligraphy, history, etc. The inscription of the statues of the Xiwo Grottoes is in the same line as the Longmen Grottoes in the calligraphy style, and its Wei stele is neat and elegant, with both strokes and squares, simple and varied... The inner wall of the grotto is engraved with a dictionary of poetry, recording the customs and customs and historical collections of the Yellow River Basin for more than a thousand years.
History is like a big river, although it will not flow wrongly, but it will always meander. The Sivo Grottoes were given the meaning of ninghe and peace, but they themselves were repeatedly submerged under the Yellow River. The raging water of the Yellow River constantly hits the mountains on the south bank, the winter and spring hit the piles of jasper, the summer and autumn roll up layers of golden waves, the waves are like thunder, and the waves are like thunder, and they swing thousands of times. The Yellow River has flooded many times in its history, flooding fertile fields, and these grottoes have also experienced many waves and flooding. During the Song and Yuan dynasties alone, there were more than 40 recorded floods.
However, the Xiwo Grottoes, like the Hanhan Valley Pass, have survived several disasters but still stand tall, and the totem generally stands on the south bank of the Yellow River, guarding the rolling Yellow River and busy water transportation under its feet. Thousands of ships and thousands of sails, hundreds of boats, how many shipwrights, merchants, merchants, dignitaries or nobles or pray on the boardwalk under the grotto, or prostrate on the boat, leave piety, take away peace...
From the banks of the Yellow River in the wilderness to the high eaves and pavilions of the hall, and to the Xiwo Grottoes of the Qiantang Zhizhai Museum, after more than 1400 years of arduous trekking, they finally entered the downtown area and entered the Taiping Dynasty, completely fading the mottled coat and vicissitudes of appearance. Here, you can only hear the sound of chanting sutras and praying to the Buddha, and you can no longer hear the rough trumpet sound mixed with the Yellow River in the Taotao River, and you can no longer feel the spectacular scene of the same earthquake in the Mountains and Rivers of Ten Thousand Horses.
Today, the river is calm, the wind and rain are smooth, and the people are happy. The ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin have risen to the national strategy, and the Yellow Ecological Corridor has become a sightseeing belt, stringing together pearl-like scenic spots, bringing a good life and happy prospects to the masses. The Xiwo Grottoes, which were relocated to the Qiantang Zhizhai, would be relieved to know that the once untamed Yellow River has become a happy river that benefits the people.
Standing in front of the grotto, looking at the lifelike Buddha statue, my feet were glued to the ground. In front of the Buddha statue, incense mist lingers; after the Buddha statue, the sound of the waves...
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