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Luoyang Introduction

Located in the West of Henan Province, Luoyang got its name due to its location in the adret of the ancient Luoshui River. It is a historic city with more than three thousand years history. It was the capital city for nine dynasties, including the East Zhou, East Han, Caowei, West Jin, North Wei, Sui, Wuzhou, Late Liang, Late Tang, so it is named as the "Ancient Capital of the Nine Dynasties", ranking top one among the seven ancient capitals in China. The Heluo area with Luoyang as the center is the important origin of the Huaxia Civilization.
The most prosperous period of Luoyang was in the Sui and Tang dynasties with a population of more than one million. Known as the oriental start of the "silk road", it had wide political, economic, cultural exchanges with countries of Europe, North Africa and Asia.
The ancient capital Luoyang also boasts rich humanistic cultures. The fables about Fuxi, Nuwa, Yellow Emperor, Tangyao, Yushun, Xiayu in ancient China were mostly originated from here; the generation and development of traditional Chinese cultures: Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, are closely related with Luoyang; the Book of Changes and The Eight Diagrams were generated here; Laotze wrote the Daoism here; Confucius once asked the ceremony here; The Historical Book of Han Dynasty and Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government were complied here; Zhang Heng invented Armillary Sphere and Seismograph here; and the great poets Du Fu and Li Bai left their ever-lasting poems here.
The rich and abundant historic culture of Luoyang has done its contribution to the Chinese nation and also leaves endless wealth and relic sites for the following generations to visit and ponder on the past. Luoyang Longmen Grottoes is one of the three art treasures of the Chinese stone inscription; the first temple Baima Temple was the first temple built after the introduction of Buddhism into China and reputed as "Shiyuan" and "Zuting" of China's Buddhism; the Mangshan in the north has the largest ancient tomb cluster in China shaped since East Zhou Dynasty and more than 400 thousand precious cultural relics have been excavated here and the first ancient tomb museum in the world has been built here. In addition, Luoyang is also famous for its three colored glazed pottery of the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang peony, Heluo Peculiar Stone (Yellow River Peculiar Stone), Luo embroidery and the Guanlin, one of the three famous Guandi Temples in China.
The ancient capital Luoyang is among the first batch of China’s historic cities declared by the Chinese government.

Longmen Grottoes Introduction

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.
Henan Province. 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.
Among them, "twenty products of Longmen" is the essence of calligraphy and Wei tablet. Zhu Suiliang's book "the monument of Yi Gu Shrine" is a model of regular script art in the early Tang Dynasty.

Fengxian Temple

Fengxian Temple is the largest cave of the Longmen Grottoes, embodying the style of stone engravings of Tang Dynasty.
The whole statue of Fengxian Temple stands a perfect piece of art, with the statue of Lushena being a fantastic masterpiece.
With a total height of 17 meters, the Lushena Buddha looks sturdy and graceful and is really true to life.
She looks down slightly, her eyes full of wisdom while the worshippers look up, feeling awe-inspired inside when her eyes look into theirs. The artistic appeal is untold, indeed.

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