Who is the author of Longmen Grottoes?

1. Longmen Grottoes

Author: Jiangsu Yashi Modern

More than 2,300 stone Buddhas stop in cave niches on the cliff. The wisdom of the Buddha lies in giving people a distance that can be resolved by themselves.

Kneeling and praying are still crowded. The Buddha's tragedy is that the fingers used for enlightenment disappeared in the black hole of time, and the whereabouts of some stone heads and arms are unknown.

The Buddha with intact limbs also has an unsolvable dilemma and is keeping the secret of time with silence. The incomplete parts of the gods are not noticed by humans.

People's piety lies in their firm belief that from the mercy of the Buddha, what they receive back is brand new.

2. Longmen Grottoes

Author: Shu Gan'er? Modern

In Longmen Grottoes, you dig a cave, and he also digs a cave, and the two mountains confront each other. , helpless Yi Shui flowed.

Eastern Mountain is riddled with holes, and Western Mountain is helpless. Han Ru asked, Pindao said, who will become an immortal and become a Buddha?

Even the carp that jumped over the dragon gate cried two times and looked back three times. Who is still attaching its soul to things and dreaming of immortality?

3. Longmen Grottoes

Author: Zhao Xianquan Modern

The storm of war fades here, the serenity of the Buddha points out the tranquility of the landscape, and the emperors are here In the tense fight for the world, the soul floats from the Dragon Court to the Dragon Gate, looking for a way to the afterlife.

Five hundred years of tenacity and the relay of successive dynasties have created a legend that astonishes the world. The grievances and grudges of generations are resolved in the smile of the Buddha, and the rolling world of mortals is still alive and well.

When crowds of tourists flock to the grottoes to inquire about the secrets of each stone statue, who remembers that those skilled craftsmen may have just carved a wish to pray for happiness and good fortune for the hardworking people!

4. Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang

Author: Xi Ji Modern

After blowing all the quicksand on my body, I stood respectfully in front of the Longmen stone Buddha statue and wiped my face With sweat, I quietly asked the boundless earth and thousands of years of history, is this a civilized world, a holy place where people can sincerely pray for well-being?

Looking back at the mist and storm of the years, the vast classics reveal the divine image of Emperor Zetian of the Tang Dynasty, and the gorgeous silk ribbons and exquisitely carved jade reveal the cultural gathering of the divine and Buddhist caves.

Light footsteps sounded in Luoyang, and the gathered literati and poets were surprised to interpret, a thousand-year feat, a thousand-year glory, the sun instantly illuminated the stone Buddha very brightly, and the sunlight also came to happily read the Buddha's poems.

The sacred palace, the elegant, dignified and kind-hearted Buddha, looms large in the magical soil of the Central Plains, and the Buddha's light shines in the east of the ancient country.

Foreign tourists flocked to worship and worship, thousands of mountains cheered, thousands of rivers sang, and China was filled with happiness and auspiciousness.

Extended information

The Longmen Grottoes were excavated around the time Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang (AD 493). Later, through the Eastern and Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, and other dynasties from Sui, Tang to Song It has been continuously constructed on a large scale for more than 400 years.

Densely scattered on the cliffs of the east and west mountains of Yishui, with a length of 1 kilometer from north to south, there are more than 97,000 Buddha statues. The largest Buddha statue is 17.14 meters high, and the smallest is only 2 centimeters.

Longmen Night View

There are more than 50 large and medium-sized caves from the Northern Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties on the cliffs of Xishan Mountain. Guyang Cave, Binyang Middle Cave, Lotus Cave, Huangfugong Cave, Weizi Cave, Putai Cave, Huoshao Cave, Cixiang Cave, Lu Cave, etc. are the representative caves of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Qianxi Temple, Binyang South Cave, Binyang North Cave (the caves and cave roof decorations of the above two caves were completed in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Buddha statues were completed in the Sui and early Tang Dynasty), Jingshan Temple, Three Buddha Niches on the Cliff, Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave, Huijian Cave, Fengxian Temple, Pure Land Hall, Longhua Temple, Jinan Cave, etc. are representative caves of the Tang Dynasty.

Dongshan is full of caves and niches from the Tang Dynasty, including 20 large and medium-sized caves, such as Erlianhua Cave, Kanjingsi Cave, Dawanwufo Cave (also known as Leigutai San Cave), Gaoping Cave, etc. Junwang Cave, etc.

The Longmen Grottoes were excavated during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Afterwards, they were built on a large scale for more than 400 years through the Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song and other dynasties. They are 1 kilometer long from north to south. Today, There are 2,345 cave niches, more than 100,000 statues, and more than 2,800 inscriptions.

Among them, "Twenty Products of Longmen" is the essence of Wei calligraphy stele, and "Stele of Yique Buddhist Niche" written by Chu Suiliang is a model of regular script art in the early Tang Dynasty.

The Longmen Grottoes lasted for a long time and spanned many dynasties. They reflected the development and changes in ancient China's politics, economy, religion, culture and many other fields from different aspects with a large number of physical images and written materials. They also exerted great influence on Chinese grotto art. has made significant contributions to innovation and development.

In 2000, it was listed as a World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.

Since its construction, the Longmen Grottoes have been severely damaged by man-made chiseling. The movement to exterminate Buddhism during the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty caused disaster to the grottoes. Travel records from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China record that the grotto statues were severely stolen at that time. In addition, when the Republic of China government moved the capital from Nanjing to Luoyang and built the road under Longmen West Mountain, it also blew up a large number of Buddhist niches at the foot of the mountain.

Due to the lack of war management, the Longmen Grottoes statues were frantically stolen from the 1930s to the 1940s. Many heads, inscriptions, and reliefs were acquired by Japanese and American cultural relics dealers.

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.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Longmen Grottoes