Poems describing Longmen Grottoes

Author: Jiangsu Yashi Modern

More than 2,300 stone buddhas stopped in caves on the cliff. The wisdom of the Buddha lies in leaving a distance for people to solve it themselves.

Bowing and praying are still crowded. The tragedy of the Buddha is that the fingers used to touch disappear into the black hole of time, and the whereabouts of the heads and arms of some stones are unknown.

The Buddha with complete limbs also has the dilemma that cannot be solved, and is keeping the secret of time with silence. The broken parts of god don't care.

Man's piety lies in his conviction that he is reborn from the compassion of Buddha.

2. Longmen Grottoes

Author: Shuganer? Modern Times

Longmen Grottoes, you also dig holes, he also digs holes, two mountains confront each other, but water flows to Iraq.

Dongshan is riddled with holes, and Xishan is helpless. Cold Confucianism asked, being original, who became a Buddha?

Even the carp that jumped over the Longmen cried, cried, cried, cried, and looked back step by step. Who is still sending her soul to things, and her dream will last forever?

3. Longmen grottoes

Author: Zhao Xianquan Modern

The wind and cloud of war disappear here, and the tranquility of Buddha points out the tranquility of mountains and rivers. In the tense struggle for the world, the soul of the emperor drifted from the Dragon Palace to the Longmen, looking for the way to the afterlife.

Five hundred years of tenacity and the relay of successive dynasties have created a legend that amazed the world. Generations of grudges are resolved in the Buddha's smile, and the world of mortals is still endless.

When tourists flock to the grottoes to explore the secret of a stone statue, who would think of those skilled craftsmen, maybe they are just carving a wish to pray for happiness and good luck for hardworking people!

4. Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang

Author: Xiji Hyundai

Play with the quicksand all over your body, stand respectfully in front of the Longmen Stone Buddha, dry the sweat on your face, quietly ask the boundless earth and ask about the thousand-year history. Is this a holy place for the civilized world and human beings to pray for happiness?

Turning over the misty rain of the years, the voluminous ancient books reveal that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was the shadow of a fairy, and beautiful jade was carved on colorful ribbons, showing the cultural gathering of the immortal Buddha cave.

The sound of gentle footsteps spread all over Luoyang, and the gathered literati and poets were surprised to interpret it. Millennium feat, Millennium glory, let the stone Buddha shine instantly, and the sunshine also read the Buddha's poems happily.

Sacred temples, elegant and dignified Buddha statues with kind eyes, are located in the magical soil of the Central Plains, and the Buddha's light shines on the ancient East.

Foreign tourists flocked to see Zen Buddhism, Qian Shan cheered and thousands of waters sang songs, which made China jubilant and auspicious.

Extended data

Longmen Grottoes began to be excavated around the time when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang (A.D. 493). Later, it was built on a large scale continuously for more than 400 years after the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Song Dynasty.

Densely distributed on the cliffs of the east and west mountains of Yishui, the length from north to south is 1km, and there are more than 97,000 Buddha statues. The largest Buddha statue is as high as 17. 14 meter, and the smallest is only 2 cm.

Longmen night scene

There are more than 50 large and medium-sized caves in the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties on the cliff of Xishan Mountain. Guyang Cave, Binyang Middle Cave, Lianhua Cave, Huangfugong Cave, Weizi Cave, Putai Cave, Huoshao Cave, Cixiang Kiln, Ludong Cave, etc. It is a representative cave in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The representative grottoes in the Tang Dynasty are Qianxi Temple, Binyang South Cave, Binyang North Cave (the above two caves were decorated in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Buddha statues were completed in the Sui and early Tang Dynasties), Jingshan Temple, Cliff Three Buddha Temple, Wanfo Cave, Huijian Cave, Fengxian Temple, Pure Land Temple, Longge Temple and Jinan Cave.

Dongshan has many caves and sacred sites in the Tang Dynasty, including 20 large and medium-sized caves, such as Erlianhua Cave, Kanjing Temple Cave, Dawanwu Buddha Cave (also known as Leigutai Cave) and Wangdong Cave in Gaoping County.

The Longmen Grottoes were dug in the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and after more than 400 years of large-scale construction in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, the length from north to south was 1 km. Today, there are 2,345 grottoes, more than 654.38 million statues and more than 2,800 inscriptions.

Among them, Longmen Twenty is the essence of Weibei calligraphy, and Chu Suiliang's A Que Buddhist Shrine Monument is a model of regular script art in the early Tang Dynasty.

Longmen Grottoes lasted for a long time, spanning many dynasties. They reflect the development and changes of China ancient politics, economy, religion, culture and many other fields from different aspects with a large number of physical images and written materials, and have made great contributions to the innovation and development of China Grottoes.

In 2000, it was listed as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO.

Longmen Grottoes have been seriously damaged by man-made chisels since they were built. During the period of Tang Wuzong, the movement of destroying Buddha made the grottoes difficult. Historical travel notes in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China recorded that grotto statues were seriously stolen at that time. In addition, when the government of the Republic of China moved its capital from Nanjing to Luoyang, it also bombed a large number of piedmont shrines when it built roads under the western hills of Longmen.

Due to the emptiness of war management, the statues of Longmen Grottoes were carved wildly from 1930 to 1940, and many headscarves, inscriptions and reliefs were bought by Japanese and American cultural relics merchants.

Longmen Grottoes are also the art history and treasures of calligraphy. The famous calligraphy masterpiece "Longmen Twenty" is the best calligraphy selected by later northern extension connoisseurs from many stone inscriptions in Longmen Grottoes. These inscriptions not only record the motive and purpose of the statue of the wishing man, but also provide a basis for the archaeological staging of the grottoes.

Kang Youwei, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, strongly advocated writing with Wei Bei in the whole society, praising Wei Bei's ten beauties, such as jumping brushwork, natural structure and rich flesh and blood. Today, Wei Bei is widely used as a slogan and decorative text. It can be seen that twenty products occupy a decisive position in calligraphy.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Longmen grottoes