2009-01-02

Binglingsi Grotto - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Binglingsi Grotto is located in Yongjing County, 35 kilometers southwest of small Jishi Shan Temple of the trench, the famous grottoes in China is one of the key heritage belonging to the unit. "Ping-Ling" is the Tibetan language, "the Buddha of thousands" of Kim, the Chinese equivalent of the "Thousand Buddha Mountain," "to poke holes."

Binglingsi grotto built in the West Philip year (420), with exquisite stone carvings known to the world. Terauchi A total of 694 stone statues, clay 82, about 900 square meters of frescoes, in the Tang Cave accounted for more than two thirds of a total of 20 caves and 113 niches. Among them, the cliff at a height of the Tang Shu-Cave (Cave 169) the most exquisite, Cut in the ground 60 meters away from the steep cliffs, an area of 200 square meters in the north of the Shek Pik on the West there is the first year of Bright Future (in 420 AD) statues of the title-ming, which is China's grotto art in the Annals of the exact title of the first recorded It is Binglingsi grotto treasures in the Po.

  Other factors, such as 125 niche Dubbo and stone Buddha Sakyamuni are, of course, the art Binglingsi Grotto. These stone carvings are a true reflection of the six times the social outlook of the Northwest Territories, the customs of the people, music, dance and decoration, a high historical value and archaeological value.

  Binglingsi about caves dug in the early years of Western Jin Dynasty (about AD Early century), an official in the construction of the West, after the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Yuan, Ming and North Korea, and so on. Due to the relatively good natural conditions, man-made damage and, therefore, has been preserved Binglingsi Grotto still relatively complete. Now, under Kukan retained a total of 183, 776 body statues, murals of more than 900 square meters, Stone carvings and the book title in mind 6.


Sixteen countries of the West period, as the local rulers Xianbei people believe in Buddhism, with the result cave Open activities imaging very active. This is Binglingsi caves dug the first wave and has been extended to the Northern Dynasties of the Northern Wei Dynasty. During the most representative 1 Cave 9, and the remaining 172 caves and niches 1, 126,128,132 Cave, 2,124,125 and 16 cave shrine, and so on are also well-known groups. Despite statues Diaozao of this period as "Hu God" Buddha and Buddhism, but to remove gesture, fingerprints, clothing, and other natural style, most of the abandoned Gandhara art as a prototype of the Buddha's features into a local craftsman own life experience and aesthetic requirements into the Chinese believers and their own feelings and ideals of the content. The most obvious is that the mural in statue and people near the Mexican Foundation has written the name list. It is clear that since the Han Dynasty is a traditional form of succession Statues in the grotto, looked lively, beautiful gesture, clothing lines, smooth, as a whole appears to be proficient skills exquisite, delicate approach Xilian.

  Tang Dynasty, because of the rise of Buddhism, the rise of another wave of statues, that is, the caves dug Binglingsi second major period. During the relatively well-known niche there is No. 46, 0 niche, and No. 51, and other niches. Kukan statues of the Tang Dynasty in the portfolio for more than a Buddha, the Bodhisattva (Buddha or four), two kings, are also a Buddha, the Ocean, the Buddha and the King II. This time Binglingsi Grotto imaging features of the caves and statues of the Tang Dynasty with the overall style as if all the emphasis on the health of the United States and plump But it also has its own unique, such as surface-long, dynamic exaggeration, ups and downs Department distinct edges and corners, the blade is also more powerful rough.

  Since then, in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, there are also caves Binglingsi cosmetic repair, but the caves have been cut tend to the decline. Binglingsi Grotto caves cut in the history of our country is relatively early for , Although after the Millennium, is still full of vitality of the arts, arts in the history of our country is a treasure.

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