What are the activities of the 2021 Longmen Grottoes Lantern Festival?

The Lantern Festival is coming soon. There are many Lantern Festival activities in Luoyang, Henan this year. Of course, the Longmen Grottoes Scenic Spot is no exception. So what activities are there in the scenic spot and when are the specific activities? , follow me to learn about it together. 2021 Longmen Grottoes Lantern Festival Activities

The first is the live broadcast event of "Traveling to Longmen with the five major 927 anchors". From 7:00 to 8:30 pm on February 25, five major 927 anchors and Longmen Martin will be invited to serve as live hosts. Through Tencent's official video account, they will tell the story of the Lantern Festival and Longmen in the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi and other humanistic history, and guide netizens to play Longmen online. .

The second is the Dragon Boat Poetry Festival and the Lantern Festival. From 7pm to 8pm every night from February 25th to 28th, Longmen Tang style cultural experience activities will be held, mainly including collective Tang dance, Tang poetry recitation, guqin performance, ancient style songs, pipa solo, Tang ritual transmission, Feihua order, tea Gift display, etc.

The third is the Longmen Ancient Street Carnival, giving you the most fashionable Lantern Festival. From February 19th to 26th, more than ten Tang-style performing arts performances will be arranged every day in Longmen Ancient Street, and activities such as giving away "flower mother-of-pearl" for consumption in the ancient street and checking in with Internet celebrities on Lantern Festival lantern riddles will be held.

Fourthly, a young lady from the Tang Dynasty accompanied her to Longmen and dreamed of returning to the Tang Dynasty. From February 25th to 28th, the Longmen Grottoes Interpretation Company arranged Hanfu interpreters to tell the historical stories of Longmen, leading tourists to travel through the Wei and Tang Dynasties and dream back thousands of years.

During the Lantern Festival, the entrance fee to Longmen Grottoes is 90 yuan/person. Introduction to Longmen Grottoes

Longmen Grottoes, together with Shanxi Yungang Grottoes, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Tianshui Maijishan Grottoes, are known as the four major grottoes in China.

It is located 13 kilometers south of Luoyang City. Here is the confrontation between Xiangshan Mountain and Longmen Mountain. The Yi River flows through it. From a distance, it looks like a natural gate, so it was called "Yique" in ancient times. In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty climbed Mang Mountain to the north of Luoyang and saw Yique to the south of Luoyang from a distance. He asked his attendants, isn't this the gateway of the True Dragon Emperor? Why didn't the ancients build their capital here? ?A minister replied flatteringly, the ancients did not know this, they were just waiting for you, Your Majesty. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was very happy after hearing this, so he built the eastern capital of the Sui Dynasty in Luoyang, and put the main entrance of the palace facing Yique. From then on, Yique was habitually called Longmen.

Longmen Grottoes is also a treasure of the history of calligraphy art. The famous calligraphy masterpiece Longmen Twenty Pieces is the best calligraphy selected by connoisseurs of later generations from the numerous stone carvings and statue inscriptions in Longmen Grottoes. These inscriptions not only record the motivation and purpose of making the statue, but also provide a basis for the archaeological staging of the grottoes. Kang Youwei, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, once strongly advocated that the whole society should use Wei stele style for writing, and also praised Wei stele for its ten beauties, such as: jumping brushwork, natural structure, rich flesh and blood, etc. Today, Wei stele style is also widely used as slogans and decorative characters. It can be seen that the 20th grade plays an important role in calligraphy.

The Longmen Grottoes are an artistic expression of Buddhist culture, but they also reflect the political, economic and cultural fashion of the time. The grottoes retain a large amount of physical materials on religion, art, architecture, calligraphy, music, clothing, medicine, etc. Therefore, it is a large-scale stone carving art museum.

Transportation overview:

You can take bus No. 81 from Luoyang Railway Station. The journey takes about 40 minutes and a taxi costs about 35 yuan. You can also take buses 53 and 60 from other parts of the city.

There are also shuttle buses running between Longmen Grottoes and Shaolin Temple.

Longmen → Shaolin: Fare is 130, the earliest departure is 10 am and the latest departure is 14:30

< p>Shaolin→Longmen: The fare is 110, the earliest departure is 11:30, and the latest departure is 4 p.m. The fare includes tickets, fares, and tour guide service fees. There are four departures per day.