Longmen Grottoes is one of the treasure houses of Chinese stone carving art. It is now a world cultural heritage，a national key cultural relics protection unit and a national AAAAA class tourist attraction.
It is located in Longmen Mountain and Xiangshan on both sides of the Yihe River in Luoyang District.
Longmen Grottoes, Mogao Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes and Maijishan Grottoes are also known as the four major Grottoes in China.
Longmen Grottoes were excavated during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
After that, they were constructed on a large scale for more than 400 years in succession in the Eastern Wei.
Western Wei, Northern Qi, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties. The length of Longmen Grottoes is as long as 1 kilometer in the north and south.
There are now 245 caves, more than 100,000 statues and more than 200 inscriptions on tablets.
Twenty products of Longmen is the essence of calligraphy and Wei tablet. Zhu Suiliang"s book called The monument of Yi Gu Shrine is a model of regular script art in the early Tang Dynasty.
Longmen Grottoes is one of the treasure houses of Chinese stone carving art. It is now a world cultural heritage，a national key cultural relics protection unit and a national AAAAA class tourist attraction.
It is located in Longmen Mountain and Xiangshan on both sides of the Yihe River in Luoyang District.
Longmen Grottoes, Mogao Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes and Maijishan Grottoes are also known as the four major Grottoes in China.
Longmen Grottoes were excavated during the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
After that, they were constructed on a large scale for more than 400 years in succession in the Eastern Wei.
Western Wei, Northern Qi, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Song Dynasties. The length of Longmen Grottoes is as long as 1 kilometer in the north and south.
There are now 245 caves, more than 100,000 statues and more than 200 inscriptions on tablets.
Twenty products of Longmen is the essence of calligraphy and Wei tablet. Zhu Suiliang"s book called The monument of Yi Gu Shrine is a model of regular script art in the early Tang Dynasty.