longmen bridge luoyang

navigate by keyword : 100 400 494 1300 2345 3600 97000 beautiful began bridge buddha buddhist built cave china cliffs continuously datong dunhuang dynasties dynasty east excavated existing green grottoes hills inscriptions just kilometers largest later like located long longmen luoyang more mountains niches north northern one pagodas place shui south statues sui tang than there thousand three two wei were west years yungang zhou

Longmen Grottoes bridge luoyang china Royalty Free Stock Photo

Longmen Grottoes luoyang china Royalty Free Stock Photo

Longmen Bridge China Royalty Free Stock Photo

Longmen grottoes scenic area and Yi River Luoyang China Royalty Free Stock Photo

Longmen Bridge and Yi River Luoyang China Royalty Free Stock Photo

Longmen bridge in Luoyang Royalty Free Stock Photo

Sightseeing Boat and Longmen bridge Royalty Free Stock Photo

Aerial view of Longmen Bridge in Autumn, Yi River, Luoyang, Henan, China Royalty Free Stock Photo

Longmen Bridge and autumn maple tree in the early morning, Yi River, Luoyang, Henan, China Royalty Free Stock Photo

Longmen Grottoes, located 12 kilometers south of Luoyang, is one of the three largest Grottoes in China. It is just like the grottoes of Yungang Grottoes in Datong and the thousand Buddha cave Grottoes in Dunhuang. Longmen is a beautiful place. There are two green hills on the East and West. Longmen Grottoes began to be excavated in Luoyang & x28;494 A.D.& x29; in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Later, the dynasties of East and West, North Qi, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties were continuously built for more than 400 years. On the cliffs of the two mountains of Yi Shui, 1 kilometers long north and south, there are 97000 Buddhist statues and more than 1300 grottoes. There are 2345 existing cave niches, 3600 inscriptions and inscriptions, more than 50 pagodas and 100 thousand statues.