Speaking of tourism, in general, people think that it is to play in the water, look at the water, it is so simple, if you think so, you are wrong, in fact, the knowledge of tourism is great. I just like to travel, in recent years, due to special reasons, I have not gone out, that is, not to mention, it is estimated that everyone also knows what the reason is, the epidemic problem. Or honestly at home, don't go anywhere, there is an epidemic problem in the province, and you have to isolate or something, don't add chaos to the government and family blockages, each family has its own affairs, everything is based on safety.
Today I want to talk about the memoirs of previous travel, that is, the self-driving tourism activities of the 2019 Henan Spring Festival. The first photo of the trip to Luoyang, yesterday the editor has introduced the first stop of the Luoyang tour, the trip to the White Horse Temple. Today, the editor will introduce the Longmen Grottoes Scenic Area, one of the three major historical and cultural scenic spots in Luoyang. Speaking of grottoes, there are four famous grottoes in China. Most of the grottoes are characterized by Buddhist culture as an artistic landscape, these four major grottoes, distributed throughout the country, most of the grottoes are distributed in the northwest region of the mainland, including Gansu Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Shanxi Datong Yungang Grottoes, Gansu Tianshui Maijishan Grottoes, and one in central China, is Luoyang Longmen Grottoes, today Xiaobian wants to say that it is this grotto.
Speaking of travel, the editor likes landscapes, rippling in the beautiful mountains and waters, indulging in the pastoral wilderness, that feeling is not only a refresh of his own perspective. It is a spiritual unparalleled enjoyment. For the art of stone carving, the editor is a layman, a layman watching the doorway, an insider looking at the liveliness, if you don't understand can listen, you can ask, watch and listen, when you first came to this place, you only know the Longmen Grottoes with a long history of cultural relics, for its stone carving culture, Buddha culture, historical culture, and in the world historical status, artistic status, nothing is known, only know curiosity, do not know the ins and outs and the story behind it.
Longmen Grottoes tickets are not too expensive, about 40 yuan, in fact, think about 40 yuan, you can see thousands of years of historical relics, world historical and cultural heritage, national 5A scenic spots, or value for money. It is worthy of the world historical and cultural heritage, 5A scenic spot, the pattern is different, giving people an impression, the atmosphere is solemn. The Buddha statues are lifelike and vivid, and they are still persevering and strong after thousands of years of storms and years. If the tour is fancy, there is no point in looking around, there is time to follow the tour guide in the scenic area to listen to it is still very interesting, because we are not a group tour, is a single self-driving, so there are fewer people, silently follow the tour group to listen, according to the on-site tour guide. The Longmen Grottoes were excavated around the time when Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei moved the capital to Luoyang (494 AD), and have a history of more than 1,500 years.
Later, through the Eastern and Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, to the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Song Dynasty, it was continuously built on a large scale for more than 400 years. Densely spread on the cliffs of the east and west mountains of Yishui, it is more than 1,000 meters long from north to south, and there are more than 1,300 grottoes, 2,345 Buddha caves and shrines, more than 50 stupas, and more than 100,000 Buddha statues. The largest Buddha statue is 17.14 meters tall, and the smallest is only 2 centimeters. There are also more than 3,600 inscriptions and inscriptions of previous generations, which reflect the high artistic attainments of the ancient Chinese working people. Among them, Binyang Middle Cave, Bongxian Temple and Guyang Cave are the most representative.
Longmen grottoes are mostly built by royal nobles, the world's only royal grottoes, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian era, Wu Zetian in order to show his own natural posture, according to his own appearance carved Lushena Buddha. In addition, Emperor Xiaowen chiseled Guyang Cave for Empress Dowager Feng, Sun Yuwanfo Cave of Lanling Wang, Li Tai built Binyang South Cave for Empress Changsun, Wei Guifei chiseled Jingshan Temple, Gao Lishi built Amitayus Buddha for Tang Xuanzong and so on. No matter whether the emperor or the state in history, the emperor will be good, no matter how to build a monument, or carve and carve, if you do not make any substantial contribution to history, everything is just in vain, history is the best mirror, descendants are the best commentators, all power and fame are empty in the end, just a drop of water in the long river of big waves and sand, go without returning, walking and silent. Only the spirit does not die, and the heroic name endures. Look at these large and small grottoes, which have survived the trials of the years and the ravages of wind and rain, and are still displayed in front of future generations with an unyielding posture.
Main Buddha: Lushena is the Buddha of the Annunciation, which means that the light shines through. With a height of 17.14 meters, a head height of 4 meters and ears of 1.9 meters, it is famous for its mysterious smile, and is praised as "the Mona Lisa of the East" and "the most beautiful statue in the world" by foreign tourists. The Buddha's face is plump and round, the top of the head is rippled, the eyebrows are curved like a crescent moon, and a pair of beautiful eyes are slightly gazing down, revealing a peaceful smile, like a wise and kind middle-aged woman, which is respectful and fearless. I heard that this statue of the Lord was carved after the Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty. Regardless of whether he is true or false, he does not distinguish between true and false, and true in falsehood.
What is incomplete is that there are still some stone statues, incomplete, (note the reason: During the Anti-Japanese War, some historical sinners frantically stole the Buddha's head, inscriptions, reliefs, and sold them to foreign countries for huge profits for their own selfish gains, so that today we see a large number of Buddha statues without the Buddha's head, only to form today's incomplete) After thousands of hardships and vicissitudes, it still highlights exquisite and meticulous, the carving is pure and blue, and the characters' expressions are three points into the wood, although there are defects, the artistic conception of the Buddha world full of peaceful colors is expressed vividly and beautifully.