What is the introduction of Yungang Grottoes?

Yungang Grottoes is one of the largest grottoes in China, formerly known as Wuzhou Grottoes Temple. Let's take a look at the introduction of Yungang Grottoes.

1, Yungang Grottoes is located at the southern foot of Wuzhou (Zhou) Mountain, about 16 km west of Datong City, China Province, with a geographical location of 1 13? North latitude 20', 40? 04'。 The grottoes are excavated along the mountain, with a grand scale and imposing momentum, and the east-west stretch is about 1 km. Grottoes are divided into three regions: east, middle and west according to the natural mountains. There are 45 main caves and 209 auxiliary caves, and the carving area is1.8000 square meters. Maximum number of statues 17m, minimum 2cm. There are more than 1 100 shrines and more than 59,000 statues of different sizes. Yungang Grottoes have a history of 1500 years. After Buddhism was introduced into China, it was carved into a royal treasure house by a nation with dynasties for the first time. It is a historical monument to the integration of Chinese and western cultures in the 5th century. 1961March was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units; 200 1 12 was approved by UNESCO to be included in the World Cultural Heritage List; In May 2007, it became the first batch of 5A-level tourist attractions in China.

2. Yungang Grottoes were formerly known as Wuzhou (Zhoushan) Grottoes Temple and renamed Yungang Grottoes in the Ming Dynasty. Li Daoyuan, a geographer in the Northern Wei Dynasty, recorded in the Notes on Water Classics: "Wuzhou River flows southeast, and there are stones on the water side, with houses and caves, where monks live. Its water turns east to the south of Lingyan, and the stone is chiseled into the mountain. Because of the rock structure, the truth is huge and powerful, and the laws of the world are rare. The mountain hall and the water hall face the smoke hall, and Lin Yuanjin looks new. " As a cultural relic of a large cave temple in Pingcheng (now Datong, Shanxi Province), it lasted nearly 70 years from the excavation of Wen Chengdi in the Northern Wei Dynasty to the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

3. Grottoes are rich in artistic content and exquisitely carved. They were carved by the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which ruled northern China at that time, and concentrated the technology, manpower and material resources of the whole country. They are Buddhist temples created by skilled craftsmen from generation to generation. They are the earliest large grottoes in eastern Xinjiang. They are different from the magnificent typical royal style of other early grottoes, and the Buddhist culture and art displayed involve history, architecture, music and many other aspects. It is the soul of oriental stone carving art, a model of the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, and also represents the highest achievement of Buddhist art in the 5th-6th century A.D., and occupies an important position in the art history of China and even the world. Together with Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Luoyang Longmen Grottoes, Indian Ajanta Grottoes and Afghan Bamiyan Grottoes, it is also called the three major stone carving art treasures in China.

4. The development of Buddhist art in Yungang Grottoes can be divided into three stages: early stage, middle stage and late stage.

What is the above? It's an introduction to Yungang Grottoes.