Longmen Grottoes（龙门石窟）

Longmen Grottoes（龙门石窟） Longmen Grottoes(龙门石窟) Tourist attractions: The Longmen Grottoes and the Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi, Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and Tianshui Maijishan grottoes and China four caves. It is located in Luoyang, thirteen km south of the city, here is the Xiangshan and Longmen mountains between two mountains, Iraq from river flow through, looking like a natural gate que, so called "yique". In the Sui Dynasty, Suiti Yang Guangceng boarded the Luoyang North Mangshan, Luoyang to see the South yique, to his attendants said, this is not the sons of the heaven portal? Why don't the capital here? A minister not answered, the non - I do not know, just waiting for you. Suiti after listen to Longyan, in Luoyang built the east capital of the Sui Dynasty, the palace is Front Gate yique yique, since then, has been the habit called Longmen. Longmen picturesque scenery, pleasant scenery, hot spring light. Since ancient times, Longmen was included in the Luoyang mountains and the eight king's crown, the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi once said: "Luo suburbs, the landscape of the Longmen Sheng, song yan." Longmen Grottoes is built between the cliffs of mountains and waters. It was carved in the Northern Wei Emperor Xiaowen from Pyongsong (now Shanxi Datong) and moved to Luoyang. At the time of Emperor Xiaowen deeply in partial in the north is not conducive to the rule, which is located in the Central Plains of Luoyang superior natural conditions, so in the year 493 and moved the capital to Luoyang, started construction of the Longmen Grottoes. Longmen Grottoes has experienced the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasty, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Northern Song Dynasty, carved intermittently for 400 years, the Northern Wei and Tang Dynasty 140 years of large-scale construction, and in all the caves in Longmen, Northern Wei Grottoes accounted for about 30%, accounting for 60% of the Tang Dynasty, the other dynasties accounted for only about 10%. According to statistics, there are two caves, 2345 niches and 70 pagodas in the East and West mountains. Longmen Grottoes is China's ancient inscriptions of a most ancient, Beilin said, a total of more than 2860 pieces of inscriptions, the prestigious Longmen twenty and Zhu Suiliang yique shrines of the monument, respectively, is a model of Weibei body and Tang Kai, called the best of China calligraphy art. Longmen mountain more than 11 statues of the largest Buddha statue, Rocana Buddha, 17.14 meters high, 4 meters high, 1.9 meters long ears; the smallest Buddha in the lotus cave, each only 2 cm, called python. Longmen Grottoes is the most concentrated ancient royal vow to statues of the place, it is the embodiment of the Royal will and behavior. The statues in the Northern Wei Dynasty and Tang Dynasty reflect different styles of the times. The Northern Wei Dynasty statues lost characteristics of Yungang Grottoes statues of rough and dignified, with the breath of life here, and gradually become strong, lively, handsome, gentle trend. The Northern Wei Dynasty statues, slender face, thin shoulders, chest, straight, straight lines of clothes with carving knife, strong rustic. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, people advocated the "thin" as the United States, so the statues of Buddha statues also sought the artistic style of "show the bones and clear the image". The Tang Dynasty people love fat is beautiful, so the Tang Dynasty Buddha face rounded shoulders, generous, bosom, clothing lines carved with round blade, smooth and natural. The Tang Dynasty statues in Longmen Grottoes inherited the fine traditions of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and learned the culture of the Han nationality, and created a vigorous, vivid and pure natural realistic style of work, which reached the pinnacle of the art of Buddha carving. Longmen Grottoes is also a history of calligraphic art. It's a treasure. The famous calligraphy boutique Longmen twenty products, is the best calligraphy descendants Beituo connoisseur selected from stone inscription on the statues of the many Longmen Grottoes. These inscriptions not only records the vow as the motive and objective of artificial, it provides the basis for the cave archaeological dating period. The Qing Dynasty scholar Kang Youwei has vigorously advocated the whole society to write calligraphy, also praised the style ten beauty, such as: strokes jump, structure Tiancheng, lush flesh etc.. As of today, widely used as decoration posters, calligraphy characters. Thus, the twenty goods occupy a pivotal position in calligraphy. Longmen Grottoes is the artistic expression of Buddhist culture, but it also reflects the political, economic and cultural fashion at that time. There is a large amount of physical information in religion, art, architecture, calligraphy, music, costume and medicine in the grottoes. Therefore, it is a large stone carving art museum. [cave profile] Longmen Grottoes is located 12 kilometers south of downtown Luoyang, is a beautiful place, there are two Castle Peak confrontation between the East and West, the North slowly. From afar, like a natural gate que, so called "yique". Since ancient times, the first landscape for the tour of Longmen. Longmen Grottoes was built in the Northern Wei Emperor Xiaowen moved to Luoyang (AD 493 years) and, later, after the things of Wei, Northern Qi, Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Song Dynasty to create large-scale and continuous amounted to more than 400 years. The clouds in the two mountains cliffs, 1 km long from north to south, existing niches 2345, inscriptions and inscriptions more than 2680 pagodas, more than 70 seats, more than 100 thousand statues statue. Among them, the largest Buddha is 17.14 meters tall, the smallest is only 2 centimeters. All these reflect the high artistic attainments of the ancient working people in china. Fengxian Temple is the biggest Grottoes in Longmen Grottoes in the Tang Dynasty, more than 30 meters in length and width. According to the inscription, this cave was excavated in the reign of Tang Gaozong, Li and Wu Zetian, and was built in 675 ad.. The statues in the cave clearly reflect the artistic features of the Tang Dynasty's Buddha statues. They are plump in shape and drooping in two ears. The shape is complete, serene, tender and kind, and very touching. The grotto Rocana Buddha seated Buddha is the biggest Longmen Grottoes, 17.14 meters tall, 4 meters high, 1.9 meters long ears, shape plump, imposing appearance, clothing lines smooth, highly artistic appeal, is a masterpiece of art exquisite beyond compare. According to the Sutra, "Lu Si" means light shining all over. This statue of Buddha, Feng Yi eyes, mouth Wei Qiao, a smile, head slightly, slightly down, like a wise and kind-hearted middle-aged women, is respect and fear. Some people commented that, in shaping the statue of Buddha, the noble sentiments, rich feelings, open mind and elegant appearance perfect combination, therefore, she has great artistic charm. Rocana Buddha there are two disciples Kasyapa and Ananda, form gentle piety, two Bodhisattva and cheerful. King hand is tall pagoda, bold. And like the book more touching, his right hand akimbo, left hand clasped, magnificent, true to life. Qianxi Temple Qianxi temple is the first big cave north of Longmen xishan. It is nine meters high and wide, deep into the nearly seven meters, about more than 1300 years ago in the early Tang dynasty. On the top of caisson is shallow quarter big lotus flower. The Lord Buddha Amitabha sitting at the table will Xumishan, fullness, chest uplift, drapery oblique vertical seat, well proportioned body, his whole attitude to wisdom, solemn sense of kindness. The Lord Buddha left for the big disciple Kasyapa, right small disciples. The two disciples were beside Avalokitesvara and mahasthamaprapta. Especially the south wall of the mahasthamaprapta, a quiet, honest figure, in the the Imperial Palace Museum has more than 1 copies of the 1 display. Two Buddha and Amitabha on both sides were known as Sam West, three saints in Western Elysian Fields, Buddhism is the object of belief. In Binyang Binyang is in the Northern Wei Dynasty representative cave. "Binyang" means greeting the sun born. Binyang three holes drilled in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Wei Xuan Emperor Xiaowen to do good deeds for his father built. It started in the year 500, which lasted 24 years, employment reached 802 thousand and 366, because after the palace coup and host Liu Teng died of illness and other reasons, the three caves in the plan (in Binyang, South and North hole hole) completed only a Binyang cave, South and North are to the hole hole before the early Tang Dynasty the main statue. Binyang cave is a horseshoe shaped plane, the central dome, carved double lotus lotus lotus form Baogai, is surrounded by eight performers Lotte and two for heaven. They stopped flying, flying in the wind around the lotus canopy, graceful posture. The cave is a three Buddha theme, namely, the past, the present and the future. The Lord Buddha is Shakya Muni. He was the founder of Buddhism, formerly known as Siddhartha Gautama, the son of the ancient king of India. He lived with Confucius in China at the same age, 12 years older than Confucius. He was a monk at the age of 29, after six years, the Buddha enlightenment, founded buddhism. Because of the Northern Wei Dynasty advocate to lean to the United States, so the main Buddha Shakya Muni cheeks thin, slender neck, slender body. The drapery is dense, carving techniques using the straight blade of the Northern Wei dynasty. The Emperor Xiaowen moved to Luoyang after the implementation of a series of Chinese policy, so in the main Buddha dress a Buddha statue in Yungang Grottoes that favors the right shoulder type robe, and wearing a robe sleeve robe. All Shakya Muni had two disciples and two bodhisattvas. Two see if the Bodhisattva with smile, gentle and honest. Left and right wall also have statues of a shop, is a Buddha, Bodhisattva two, a Dress of an ancient scholar cassock, Angiopteris remain covered. The north and south sides of the front wall of the cave have four layers of exquisite relief from top to bottom. The first layer is to "Vimalakirti Sutra" as the theme of the story is called "Vimalakirti relief, change". The second layer is the two buddihist story. The third layer is the famous emperor after the Buddha figure. The fourth layer is the "ten gods" sculpture. Especially the Buddha figure located on the third floor of the Imperial Palace, they reflect the Buddhist activities out of the Buddhist piety, solemn and quiet mood, accurate modeling, exquisite production, represents a high level of development of contemporary life genre painting, has important artistic value and historical value. It is a pity that they were stolen abroad in the three and 40s of the last century. They are now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York, USA, and the Nelson Museum of art in Kansas. South Binyang cave The South Binyang cave cave as the Northern Wei Dynasty excavated cave, but several statues of Buddha are mainly completed in early Tang dynasty. The Lord Buddha Amitabha, full face, shoulders generous, plump, reflects the Tang Dynasty fat is beautiful style. Binyang South hole is Tang Taizong Li Shimin's fourth son of King Li Tai in the Northern Wei Dynasty based on the abandoned continued chisel, as his mother empress to do good deeds and build, belongs to the transition period of work. Three Buddha cliff A total of seven cliff three Buddha statues, three of them are sitting Buddha, four standing Buddha statues in China, this combination of Grottoes is extremely rare. The middle of the main Buddha Maitreya, sitting on the side of the pedestal, head damage, only carved out contours, unpolished. According to Buddhist records, the Maitreya Buddha is the "future Buddha", which is now the successor to Sakyamuni buddha. Wu Zetian used Maitreya's belief as its accession to the throne of public opinion, after claiming the throne "Cheshire" (Maitreya), Maitreya to promote the popular belief. Cut Cliff is emerging three shrines in this historical background, with the downfall of Wu Zhou regime, cliff three shrines and thus also shut down. Although this group of statues is a semi-finished product, it provides a valuable material for us to understand the excavation procedure of the grotto statues. Myriad Buddha Hole To poke holes because the north and south sides carved neatly arranged fifteen thousand small Buddha named. The cave was anterior chamber structure, made two lux, two lions, after the room made one Buddha and two Bodhisattva two disciples of the two heavenly kings, Longmen Grottoes is the most complete combination of statue of cave. On the top of a beautiful lotus flower, surrounded by lotus flowers around a Inscriptions: "Datang Yonglong November 30th of the first year, daikan Shenbiao Yao, Yun dojo in Jackson, fifteen thousand statue niche". It shows that the cave is dug in the palace two female officer Yao Shenbiao and dojo in Yun Chi Master under the auspices of the first year of the Tang emperor, was completed in 680 ad yonglong. The Lord Buddha Amitabha, sitting in a double lotus seat, is round, two shoulders generous, concise and smooth lines of clothes using round knife carving techniques in Tang dynasty. The LORD said, "Foshi fearless India" fearless in between heaven and earth, overweening. The Lord Buddha sitting in the lotus throne, carved in waist parts four Vajra, the struggling upward majestic and Lord Buddha composed in stark contrast, also accentuated the serenity of the Lord buddha. There are fifty-two lotus flowers at the back of the main Buddha, each sitting on a lotus with a support Bodhisattva. They sit or side, or hold a lotus, or whisper, look different, like a group of different girls. The fifty-two represents from the beginning to the end of Buddha Bodhisattva practice of rank, namely ten, ten, ten letters, ten, ten, etc. to sleep, sleep well. In the cave, the two walls of the north and South are neatly carved with fifteen thousand small Buddha statues, each of which is only four centimeters high. In the north and south walls of the wall base two six respectively carved Jiyue, kabuki dance in the melodious sound of music and dance, Titaiqingying, very pretty and charming. The whole cave reveals the ideal land and beautiful decoration, the western Elysian Fields to express a warm and cheerful atmosphere, the buddha. There is also a Bodhisattva statue on the south side of the cave. She is a beautiful example of many Bodhisattvas in Longmen Grottoes during the Tang dynasty. Bodhisattva is 85 cm high, head tilted to the right, the body into a "s\\\'" curve, the whole gesture is very beautiful and dignified. Mei Lanfang, a famous Chinese drama master, was attracted and admired by her beautiful image when she visited Longmen in the early years, and was successfully applied to his performance. Lianhua Cave Because the lotus cave carved Kuding a Duogao embossed lotus named, some dug in the Northern Wei dynasty. The lotus is the symbol of Buddhism, to come out of the dirty mud unsoiled. Therefore, most of the Buddhist grottoes are decorated with lotus flowers, but such large and exquisite lotus reliefs like the lotus cave roof are rare in Longmen Grottoes. Around the lotus flying Titaiqingying, waist dress, posture. The wall is made of one Buddha and two Bodhisattva disciples two, as the main Shakya Muni statue, the type Dress of an ancient scholar robe, pleats concise. This is Shakya Muni like Shakya Muni out lobbying, preaching the image. Two disciple disciple Kasyapa left shallow relief, deep head high nose, chest muscles with abrupt, Xizhang, like a Western ascetic, but its head was stolen years ago, the French Guimet museum. The smallest Buddha in Longmen Grottoes, only 2 centimeters high, these small pieces of small Thousand Buddhas are above the south wall of the lotus cave. They are vivid, detailed and vivid. fengxian temple Fengxian Temple is the most exquisite statues cliff type group for Longmen Grottoes, the largest art. The main building on the north side of the inscription Folian called the "Losana niche", because it belongs to the royal temple of Fengxian Temple and called the "Fengxian temple". There are nine large body like, intermediate principal Buddha Losana Buddha, as reported by Shakya Muni, 17.14 meters high, 4 meters high, 1.9 meters long ears. The Buddha's face is full and round, with wavy hair on the top of his head. Double eyebrow curved crescent, attached to a pair of eyes, staring ahead slightly. High straight nose bridge, small mouth, showing peaceful smile. Ears long and slightly pendulous, chin rounded and slightly forward. Harmony harmony, homely, wearing through shoulder cassock, drapery Jane plain, a circle of concentric lines of clothes, the picture contrast to the exceptionally bright and holy. The vicissitudes of the disciple Kasyapa, experienced and steady, gentle and intelligent small disciples, expression of modesty, rich and magnificent Bodhisattva, valiant heroic king, the Lord Buddha and overbearing lux Rocana together constitute a group of highly image art group modal texture. Behind the nine body like the Fengxian Temple there are many small rectangular niches, this is about the song and Jin Dynasties, people like to niche protection on niches built wooden roof style buildings, these buildings affect the Buddha statues of ventilation, accelerated weathering, which was later demolished. Fengxian Temple large Qundiao art with its grand scale, exquisite carving stone carving art in China at the peak, to become a model of stone carving art of China, has become a symbol of this great era of the Tang dynasty. guyang cave Hole in the Longmen mountain south, dug in the year 493, is the statue of the Longmen Grottoes group in the opening of the earliest and most abundant, the highest content of Buddhist calligraphy art in a cave. It is magnificent in scale and magnificent in appearance. North wall engraved with the "hole cave Kaiti" three words, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the main Taoist believers like Shakya Muni altered into Lao image, what Lao Tzu was here, so practice Dan, also called Laojun hole hole. Hole is composed of a natural limestone cave dug into the. On the top of no lotus horseshoe shaped caisson, ground. And like Shakya Muni, a double collar drooping robes, thin face, eyes smiling, quietly sitting in the square table, stood in the left hand is the main Buddha Aquarius Avalokiteshvara, on the right is to take the mani orb mahasthamaprapta, they look quiet, calm manner. Hole size of up to hundreds of shrines, carving decoration is very beautiful, especially in the design of niche shape, and the amount of niche niche lintel, rich and colorful, be the most changeful, some lotus like pointed arches, some house shaped buildings, some hangings and tassels, and made a niche lintel carved in stories of Buddhism, such as: the south wall hole on the altar of Sakyamuni Duobao birth tree, a lotus, step by step, Kowloon is about empowerments, Siddartha from his mother Maya right armpit was born, just born, it took seven steps, each step of the footprints are a lotus flower, which is called step by step lotus and he stood on the stage, in the sky there are nine dragons for him with water bath. The hole is the most concentrated Royal vow to place statues. These high officials and noble lords at the cost of money, in order to cut grottoes, planting merit, praying to avoid disaster, but also left Longmen twenty treasures of calligraphy. Guyang cave has nineteen products, other products in CI Xiang kiln. Longmen twenty refers to the selection of twenty pieces of the inscription on the statues of different from the Northern Wei Dynasty, they recorded shrines carved time, character, objective etc.. The characteristics of twenty products are: correct font and generous, vigorous and simple structure, the pen between Han Li and Tang kai. The Qing Dynasty scholar Kang Youwei has vigorously advocated the whole society to write with Weibei, now, Longmen twenty products still have boundless artistic charm, attracting countless overseas friends, every year across the sea, to be able to see this calligraphy treasures. Prescription cave After the hole, we came to the prescription prescription hole hole, the cave door engraved with many Tang Dynasty named prescription. It began to hammer in the later period of Northern Wei Dynasty, the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, is a sculpture. The five Buddha body stiff little curve, thick neck, strong body, Bodhisattva crown on both sides of the tape is very long, drooping to the upper arm. This is characteristic of Northern Qi statues. 150 kinds of prescription portal engraved on both sides, the drug is a plant, animal and mineral medicine. Prescriptions involving medical, surgical, pediatrics, facial features, and so on, involving medicinal herbs can be found in the civil, to a great extent convenient to the people. The prescription can not only treat common diseases, but also treatment such as choking therapy Difficult miscellaneous diseases, can treatment of esophageal cancer. 95 of them were collected by the Japanese scholar in the "heart prescription" in tenth Century, which shows their value and influence. The prescription prescription cave is the earliest extant inscriptions on the prescription, Chinese medicine to learn important. Cave After reading the caves of the Western Hills, we crossed the water bridge and came to the Dongshan grottoes. Before the foot of Dongshan Road was not opened, the top of the megalith was a platform. The legend that the Fengxian Temple is completed, Wu Zetian personally chaired the officials to visit Longmen, a grand opening ceremony, the big band in this platform appeared to add to the fun, so later he called it leigutai. The three hole is near leigutai called leigutai three hole. This is the cave, also known as Mrs. Dover 000 Buddha cave. Is a Wu Zhou Zen cave, Chinese Zen Buddhism is to specialize in the religious meditation. "Meditation" is a stable and secure means to cease to kill. As the dome shaped, and ornate lotus is a caisson, statues of Buddha and two Bodhisattvas, the main Buddha knees sag and sitting Maitreya Buddha, wall base has twenty-five statues in high relief Lohan portrait, from south to North West West wall. A 1.5 ring decorated with images of rohan, Both side are engraved with the images of Lohan Lohan is an excerpt from "pay fazang biography" in the text introduces the causes and characteristics of the ocean's life. There are many new words in the Scriptures, which are the caves of Zen Buddhism during the Wu Zhou period. The Taipei cave The hole is cut in the Longmen Grottoes in Taipei earlier, the largest grotto statues of Tantra, Tantric Buddhism is one of the Chinese factions, it originated from India, produced in seventh Century, the Buddhist Tantra is finally a sect of Buddhism, Buddhism spread China, in promoting China, even as Japan, Korea, and Tantric leaders and their religious activities, and Luoyang and Longmen Grottoes have a very close relationship. The Taipei cave dome roof, horseshoe shaped plane, 4 meters high, 4.9 meters wide, on the top of the lotus caisson, around four flying. It is not clear because of weathering and denudation. It is said that as the main hole in the north, three statues and Nandong a statue of Buddha, are moving from elsewhere in the period of the Republic of china. The Three Great Buddha, Lord Buddha east wall for Vairocana, meaning that in addition to the sun, dark times bright meaning, so it is also called "Tathagata", its Headband Tiara, decoration with armlet Bodhisattva arm, like 2.45 meters high, 0.9 knot Jia fuzuo the table on the meter. On the front wall of the south of the North cave, carved a statue of Guanyin like eight arms, 1.83 meters high, barefoot sitting on the round table sat, four arm eleven Guanyin in the north of the front wall was carved, like 1.9 meters high, standing barefoot in the round table to sit on. Kanjing Temple Look at the sculpture by the temple of Wu Zetian period, double chamber structure, room ten small cliff several niche statues, the main chamber depth of 1170 cm, 1116 cm wide, 825 cm high, flat, square plane, vertical walls, three were carved out of the high wall of the lower 180 cm from the ocean's twenty-nine progenitor (positive wall 11 two, 9), a wall as the ocean images of China's Tang Dynasty is the most beautiful, according to the "magic weapon" Fei ancient inscription. This is not only the arhat statues carved carved caves, like a large meditation hall, may be hosted by the cut of the zen. Look, the temple is the largest cave in the east of Longmen, and the 29 Dharma boats are well preserved. Fragrant Hill Temple Xiangshan temple is located in the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties in Luoyang 13 kilometers south of the Xiangshan west depression, and the world cultural heritage - Longmen Grottoes Xishan a narrow strip of water in the area, across the river, connected with the Longmen Grottoes Grottoes Dongshan and Bai Yuan a neighbor standing side by side. Fragrant Hill is named for its abundance of sweet scented beans. Micro Xiangshan temple built in the Northern Wei Dynasty kihei first year (AD 516 years), Tang chuigong three years (AD 687 years), in India (Rizhao) Po circuit to monks buried here, for the placement of the left body reconstruction of the temple. Tianshou the first year (AD 690), Emperor Wu Zetian in Luoyang, the establishment of Wu Zhou Dynasty, Wu Liangwang petitioned the imperial, "Xiangshan temple, and the temple was rebuilt, Xiangshan temple ruins cehan flying Pavilion, Lingyun, magnificent, Wu Zetian often go pro Royal Travel, Xiangshan temple in Shilou sitting in. Leave the "Xiangshan poem from Robe" story. Tang and six years (AD 832 years), Henan Yin Bai Juyi donated sixty or seventy Wanguan, Xiangshan Temple rebuilt, and wrote the "repair" Xiangshan temple, the temple became famous, this article begins with the first one is the Xiangshan Temple respected "Luoyang environs scenery wins, Longmen Yan, Longmen ten temple the concept of Tour victory, Xiangshan song Yan, Bai Juyi call himself" Xiangshan Upasaka "and as a" full Xiangshan nine old monk who will "chant in the temple hall of Shanglin, Huichang six years (AD 846 years) the death of Bai Juyi, was buried in the testament Xiangshan temple as full master tower. Song and Jin Dynasties Xiangshan temple still, at the end of the yuan was abandoned, the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty rebuilt, Emperor Qian Long had praised the "Longmen tour Xiangshan temple, where ten temple, the first number of Xiangshan", this poem. He made the first "two poems" Xiangshan temple, was engraved in the stone, is located in Xiangshan Temple of emperor Qian Long the pavilion is stands a piece of stone, for over two hundred years, in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, Xiangshan temple and deserted, Xiangshan temple was rebuilt after 1936, For Jiang Jieshi to celebrate the fifty birthday in the temple, built a two storey small building. Jiang Jieshi and Song Meiling several times in this summer, this building is located on the southeast side of Xiangshan temple, known as "Jiang song villa". After the liberation, Xiangshan temple has conducted a number of repairs, now, in order to implement the "tourism city" strategy, expand the Longmen Grottoes scenic tourism projects, rich cultural connotation of the Xiangshan temple, Xiangshan temple tourism promotion, carry forward the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, the Luoyang municipal government and the Longmen Grottoes authority according to "the Longmen Grottoes area planning" and the "Luoyang Longmen Grottoes protection regulations", to invest 6 million yuan in the first half of 2003 to complete the transformation of the Xiangshan temple. The reconstruction project was completed from the end of 2002 to the beginning of April 2003, and lasted 100 days, which created the most speed of temples in our country. This is the fifth time in the history of Xiangshan Temple restoration, Xiangshan temple from the new style of Tang Dynasty, Jiang song Lou, Qian Longyu Pavilion, mantle tower such as historical relics to repair, preservation, protection. The bell tower and the drum tower, the main hall was built on the site, the renovation of the hall of heavenly kings, the ocean palace, step road etc.. [collection of cultural relics] The Longmen museum contains statues of the 36 seat, the inscription of 8 blocks, 48 pieces, 32 pieces of artifacts and statues, 64 pieces of porcelain, bronze ware 32, 64 block, 16 pieces of stone carving, painting and calligraphy inscriptions in 160, is a valuable cultural heritage of our country. [best travel time] Spring drought, summer hot and rainy, autumn mild, cold winter, the average temperature of about 15 degrees During the Luoyang peony festival every year from April 1st to May 10th and enjoy the peony and visit the Longmen Grottoes. For busy tourists do not join the peony, Longmen Grottoes is the best tourist season is autumn, the mountain tour, an invigorating autumn climate, it is enjoyable. [scenic food] Longmen Grottoes is the most unique water Luoyang seats, entrees with soup, eat to change a together, like water, hence the name. The palace was introduced, Luoyang is the first choice. To treat the old Yao Yao, really different, Bing lake, Luoyang restaurant to taste. There are "no soup", has a hundred years of history, covering the scenic spots and Luoyang streets. [scenic shopping] There are many specialties in Luoyang, ranging from handicrafts to local specialties. The famous Tang Dynasty, in Luoyang has a hundred years of history. Luo embroidery is a traditional handicraft in Luoyang. It has a history of more than 2000 years. There is the impression of Luoyang tourist souvenirs series, Luoyang stone, Luoyang cherry, plum jade, the Yellow River carp, Dukang wine...... The shopping environment in Luoyang is pretty good. Major shopping malls not only provide visitors with a wide range of world famous brand, domestic products, home appliances, fashion, gold and silver jewelry and other commodities, but also a variety of entertainment, accommodation and facilities are also available. Handicrafts: antique bronze Luoning bamboo embroidered embroidered Luoyang lanterns Luoyang Tang Wang Mazi scissors Zhao Bingyan copper mud whistle. Luoyang Longmen Grottoes is the theme of the tourism souvenirs such as refrigerator Luoyang impression of a multitude of names, Fengxian Temple Longmen Grottoes scenic area of the Buddhas theme stickers, pens, CD boxes, portable ashtray, memo pad, and the Longmen Grottoes cartoon image as the prototype of the key chain, cards and other small souvenirs.