Who is the author of Longmen stone carving in Luoyang?

The excavation process spans hundreds of years, with countless craftsmen and no historical records.

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.

By 20 14, there will be 2345 caves and more than 80 pagodas in Dongxishan. Longmen Grottoes is the place with the largest number of ancient steles in China, which is called the ancient forest of steles. * * There are more than 2,860 stone inscriptions, among which the long-standing Twenty Pieces of Longmen and the One Que Buddhist Shrine Monument by Chu are the models of Wei Bei Harmony respectively, which can be called the fine works of China calligraphy art. There are more than 1 1000 existing Buddha statues in Longmen Mountain. The largest Buddha statue is 17. 14 meters high, and the smallest Buddha statue with a head height of 4 meters is in Lianhua Cave, and each statue is only 2 cm long, which is called micro-sculpture.

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.