448. Luoyang cultural heritage

To this day, the famous scenic spots in Luoyang are still vividly in my mind -

Longmen Grottoes

Guan Lin

Longmen Grottoes

Longmen Grottoes is listed as a world cultural heritage, known as "Yique" in ancient times, the mountains and rivers are magnificent, the scenery is beautiful, the grottoes are densely spread on the cliffs on both sides of the Yi River, up to 1 kilometer. It and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Datong Yungang Grottoes, together known as China's three major grotto art treasure house. In addition, there are Maijishan Grottoes in Tianshui City, Gansu Province and Liupan Mountain in the northwest of Guyuan County, Ningxia Province, and the North Sumeru Mountain Grottoes are more famous.

Guan Lin

Guan Lin is the place where the head of the Shu general Guan Yu is buried during the Three Kingdoms period, and it is also a palace-like complex. Here the ancient cypress becomes a forest, the monument of the long mound, and the style is majestic. Guan Yu was revered as a "martial saint" by past dynasties and was a model of "loyalty, bravery, benevolence and righteousness" for folk believers.

White Horse Temple

White Horse Temple is located 12 kilometers east of Luoyang, has a history of more than 1,900 years, is the first government-run temple in China, is respected as the "Shiyuan ancestral garden" of Chinese Buddhism, and has the reputation of China's first ancient temple. The ancestral court of Chinese Buddhism Zen Buddhism, "the first temple in the world", is Shaolin Temple.

Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum

Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum is the world's first thematic museum with the main content of displaying representative tombs of past dynasties, which is divided into two exhibition areas: typical tombs of past dynasties and tombs of emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Eighth Route Army Office in Los Angeles (abbreviated as Los Angeles Eighth Office)

The "Eighth Route Army Office in Los Angeles" was the location of our party's headquarters in the First War Zone during the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. It is now a provincial key cultural relics protection unit, and is an important revolutionary site and patriotic education base in Luoyang City.

Luoyang Museum

Luoyang Museum is the only comprehensive history museum in Luoyang, focusing on the collection of nearly 400,000 pieces of precious cultural relics unearthed in Luoyang, especially bronzes, painted terracotta figurines, Tang Sancai is the most distinctive.

Luoyang Folk Museum

Luoyang Folk Museum (Luze Hall) is a special museum to promote Heluo culture and display folk customs, which was founded in the ninth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1744 AD), and is an outstanding example of local ancient architecture in the Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains.

Baiyun Mountain National Forest Park

Baiyun Mountain National Forest Park is located in the primitive forest area of Funiu Mountain in the south of Luoyang Song County, which was approved as a national forest park by the Ministry of Forestry in 1992 and upgraded to a national nature reserve in 1998.

Luoyang Shanshan Hall

Luoyang Shanxi Hall is located in the east section of Jiudu Road, Luoyang City, is a well-preserved Qing Dynasty building complex, was built in the Yongzheng period of the Kangxi Dynasty, is the Henan Provincial People's Government announced as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit.

Cockscomb Cave

The Cockscomb Cave is located in the west of Luanchuan City, in the karst landform, it was first found in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it is a great wonder of the Central Plains, known as "the first cave in the north".

Wang Duo Calligraphy Museum

Wang Duo calligraphy museum is located in the north of Mengjin City, covering an area of 9,000 square meters, north to south, belonging to the Ming and Qing Dynasty style buildings. Wang Duo, former residence Mengjin. Bright and sensitive, erudite and ancient, good at poetry and painting, he is a famous calligrapher in the early Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Thousand Tang Zhizhai

Qiantang Zhizhai is one of the places with the highest concentration of epitaphs in the Tang Dynasty in China. There are 1,413 epitaph stone carvings in memory, as well as epitaph covers, calligraphy, paintings, statues, scriptures and other stone carving artworks.

Wind Cave Temple

Fengxue Temple is located in a valley surrounded by mountains in the northeast of Ruzhou. The architectural style is peculiar, there is no central axis, and it rises step by step with the mountain. It was built in the five dynasties of the Later Han Dynasty, rebuilt in the Jin Dynasty, rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the shape was simple and majestic.

Cave in western Henan

Cave in western Henan is a form of dwelling in the countryside of Luoyang and Sanmenxia, when the residents choose the place to live, first dig a big pit of more than 100 square meters on the ground, and then dig a few holes in the cave on all sides, build a low wall along the pit along the periphery, and still preserve a part of it in Tsukatou Village at present.

Luoyang's main historical and cultural tourist attractions ( Point )

Longmen Grottoes Scenic Area (World Cultural Heritage, National AAAA-level Scenic Area)

The Longmen Grottoes are located on the banks of the Yishui River, 13 kilometers south of Luoyang City. Here the two mountains face each other, Yishui flows, the shape is like a door, and it is called "Yique" in ancient times. Because it is located in the south of the "Dragon Garden" of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it is called the "Dragon Gate". The Longmen Grottoes Cultural Relics Scenic Area is mainly composed of Longmen Grottoes, Dongshan Grottoes, Xiangshan Temple and Baiyuan, and is one of the top ten civilized scenic spots in the country.

Longmen Grottoes, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes are known as China's three major stone carving art treasure houses, and were included in the World Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO on November 30, 2000. It was founded in the Northern Wei Dynasty (about 493 AD) and went through the Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, and Northern Song dynasties, and was excavated for more than 400 years. There are 2,345 Buddhist shrines and more than 100,000 Buddha statues, the largest of which is 17.14 meters high and the smallest is only 2 centimeters. The sheer number of these shrines and the high level of art are breathtaking.

Guanlin (National AAAA-level Scenic Spot)

Guan Lin is located about 7 kilometers south of Luoyang City, is the place where the head of Guan Yu of Shu will be buried during the Three Kingdoms, Guan Zhi is in the forest, so it is called "Guan Lin", not Guan Zhi Lin, not even the treasure of the forest. In the twentieth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1592 AD), the temple was planted with cypress, and it was expanded during the Qianlong period, forming the current scale, and it is a key cultural relics protection unit in Henan Province. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the civil and military saints were enshrined together, and Guan Lin and Shandong Qufu Kong Lin were equally famous, and they were the first of the three major Guan temples in the country. Because Guan Gong is worshiped by Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, it is also recognized as the traditional Chinese god of martial arts, and the incense is extremely prosperous. The Guanlin International Pilgrimage Ceremony is held every October, and pilgrims from home and abroad gather here, which is unprecedented.

449, White Horse Temple

White Horse Temple (National AAAA Scenic Area)

Located 12 kilometers east of Luoyang City, the White Horse Temple, the first ancient temple in China, is the first government-run temple after Buddhism was introduced to China. It was built in the 11th year of Emperor Yongping of the Ming Dynasty of the Eastern Han Dynasty (68 AD). In history, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty "dreamed of gold at night", then sent an envoy to the Western Regions, to pray for Buddhism, to welcome back two Indian monks Morteng and Zhu Falan, and to carry Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues on white horses to return to Luoyang, Kyoto, in order to commemorate the merits of the White Horse Sutra, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty ordered the construction of the White Horse Temple, and placed Indian monks to translate China's first Buddhist scripture "Buddha Says Forty-two Chapters". Since then, the White Horse Temple has been revered as the "Ancestral Garden" and "Shiyuan", and enjoys a supreme position in the Chinese Buddhist community.

Luoyang Museum (National AAA Attraction)

Luoyang Museum is located in the middle of Zhongzhou Road in Luoyang City, which is an antique building with national characteristics and the only comprehensive history museum in Luoyang City. Established on May 10, 1958, the museum has a collection of precious cultural relics unearthed in Luoyang area, with an exhibition area of 1,700 square meters, according to the historical periodization and dynastic order, it gathers more than 2,000 pieces of cultural relics from 500,000 years ago to the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of which belong to the national cultural relics, which truly and vividly reflect the history of the occurrence and development of Luoyang's economy, politics and culture.

Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum (National AAA Scenic Spot)

Luoyang Ancient Tomb Museum is located in the northwest suburbs of Luoyang City, is the only special museum in China to display the typical tombs of the past dynasties, covering an area of more than 150 acres, the ground garden layout, imitation Han style architecture elegant and solemn. Domestic pavilions and verandahs, twists and turns, strange flowers and trees, the four seasons are fragrant, far away from the hustle and bustle, elegant and pleasant. Twenty-six ancient tombs are displayed in chronological order underground. There are murals such as myths and legends from the Western Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the story of ascending immortals, and the burial goods, brick carvings, stone carvings, etc., which make people realize the mystery and mystery of history and reality, the replacement of time and space between heaven and earth. In the west area of the ancient tomb hall, the mausoleum mound of the Northern Wei Emperor is towering, the Xuan Palace is secluded, and the majesty of the royal mausoleum is impressively visible.

Luoyang Folk Museum (National AAA Scenic Area)

Luoyang Folk Museum is the largest and most well-preserved ancient building complex in Luoyang City. In the 9th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1774), it was built by Jia Cui Wanzhen, a merchant in Lu'an, Shanxi (now Changzhi) and Zezhou (now Jincheng), and worshiped Guan Yu. During the Republic of China, it was renamed "Luze Hall". After 1981, the Yuxi Museum was established. In 1986, it was announced as a key protection unit in Henan Province, rebuilt into the Luoyang Folk Museum in 1987, and officially opened to the public in 1988. The scale of the museum is far-reaching, the appearance is majestic, the existing front hall (back is the noon floor), the apse, along the central axis layout, the two sides are the bell and drum tower, the east and west through the room, the east and west corridor room, the east and west with the hall and so on. The museum is the largest folk museum in Henan Province, the basic display consists of five major parts of belief and customs, marriage customs, longevity customs, folk art and embroidery, among which all kinds of plaques collected from the people, the number is large, the calligraphy and carving are exquisite, and they are rare in China.

Luoyang Eighth Route Army Office Memorial Hall (National AAA Scenic Area)

After the outbreak of the "77 Incident", Japanese imperialism launched a full-scale war of aggression against China. At the initiative of the Communist Party of China, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party carried out the second cooperation and established a broad anti-Japanese national united front. In order to consolidate the achievements of the united front, in November 1938, after consultation with the Kuomintang government, our party established the "Eighth Route Army Office in Luoyang", referred to as the "Eighth Route Army Office" in Luoyang, where the headquarters of the commander of the First War Zone was located.

The main tasks of the office are: to carry out united front work and cover the activities of the underground party. Mobilize the people to join the anti-Japanese salvation movement, and transport cadres, youths and military supplies for our party and army. Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Xu Haidong, and other senior leaders of our party and our army have personally visited the office on many occasions to direct and make arrangements for the work. The former site of the Eighth Route Army's office in Los Angeles is now a provincial key protection unit. In 1985, it was turned into a memorial hall, and in 1987, it was officially opened to the public, and became an important revolutionary site, patriotic education base and red tourist attraction in Luoyang City.

Qiantang Zhizhai Museum (National AAA Attraction)

Tiemen Town, located in the west of Xin'an County, Luoyang City, is about 45 kilometers away from Luoyang City, and is the place with the highest concentration of epitaphs in the Tang Dynasty in China, ranking the largest in the country. There are 1,413 epitaph stone carvings in memory, including 1,185 Tang Zhi, accounting for a quarter of the total number of Tang Zhi unearthed in China. In addition, there are 268 epitaphs of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and other dynasties. Among them, the stone carvings of Yan Zhenqing, Mi Fu, Liu Yong, Zheng Banqiao, Wang Duo, Kang Youwei and other calligraphy masters are particularly eye-catching.

Mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty (National AAA Scenic Area)

The Mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, known as the original mausoleum in ancient times, commonly known as the Han Mausoleum and Liu Xiu's tomb, is the mausoleum of the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty - the ancestor Liu Xiu, which has a history of nearly 2,000 years. The cemetery is located in the southwest of Tiexie Village, Baihe Town, Mengjin County, the south of the mausoleum is close to the mountain, the north is adjacent to the Yellow River, near the mountains and rivers, quiet and solemn. The cemetery is rectangular, composed of two parts of the cemetery and the ancestral hall, the total area reaches 66,000 square meters, the tomb is located in the middle of the cemetery, it is the shape of the rammed earth mound, 17.83 meters high, the circumference is 487 meters, the mausoleum is planted all over the Sui and Tang Dynasty apricots and cypresses (rare varieties of cypress, exudes apricot fragrance) 1458 plants, it is a rare mausoleum garden in China, and it is the trend of pillow river pedaling mountain, the feng shui system of the site of the emperor's mausoleum is changed, it is unique compared with other emperors' mausoleums, it is strange and happy for the viewers for thousands of years, and the visitors are endless. In 1963, it was announced as the first batch of provincial key cultural relics protection units in Henan Province.

Former Residence of Wang Duo (National AAA Scenic Area)

Wang Duo (1592-1652), the word Juesi, the name of the Nunnery, Songqiao, alias Yantan Yusuo, is a famous calligrapher in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming and Qing dynasties were awarded the prince Shaobao, the official to the Ministry of Rites Shangshu because of the ancestral residence of Luoyang Mengjin, so it is also called "Wang Mengjin". He is highly accomplished in calligraphy and painting, and he is unique. Its former residence is located in the old city of Mengjin, which consists of two parts: the former residence of 2,646 square meters and the back garden covering an area of 80 acres. Wang Duo was born here in the twentieth year of Wanli of Mingshenzong, and was given to the Taibao, so it is called "Taibao Mansion". Now the representative work of Wang Duo's calligraphy "Proposed Mountain Garden" stone carving, which is a key cultural relics protection unit in Henan Province.

Longma Negative Picture Temple (National AAA Scenic Area)

Founded in the fourth year of Emperor Yonghe of Jin Mu (348 AD), it is the first sacrificial place built on the old road of the Yellow River in order to commemorate the achievements of Fuxi, the ancestor of humanity. Located in Leihe Village, Huimeng Town, Mengjin County, it is a key cultural relics protection unit in Henan Province.

Yanshi Mall Museum (National AA Scenic Spot)

Yanshi Mall Museum is a historical thematic museum, located in the southwest corner of Yanshi City, 100 meters east of the ruins of Yanshi Corpse Township Gou Mall, the main building is the "Four A Heavy House" style antique palace complex, the hall is in the center, the corridor houses are connected, the blue bricks and green tiles, simple and elegant, the old pines and cypresses in the courtyard, the flowers are like brocade, the antique is ancient, and the scenery is pleasant. The site covers an area of about 16,000 square meters, with a construction area of 31,000 square meters and an exhibition room area of 1,100 square meters, which started construction in 1985 and was completed and opened in April 1987.

The Six Museums of the Son of Heaven

Located in the center of Luoyang city in the east Zhou Wangcheng Square, the northeast of the ruins of the Zhou Dynasty, it is a special museum of "Wangcheng, Wangling, Wangqi" with the general situation of the Zhou Wangcheng, the archaeological discoveries of the royal tombs in recent years and the precious cultural relics of the Zhou Dynasty. The museum combines the spectacular real scene of the carriage and horse pit with exquisite cultural relics, vividly and intuitively showing the dynastic status and splendid history and culture of Luoyang during the Zhou period.

Luoyang Metropolis Museum (Zhougong Temple)

Luoyang Capital City Museum (formerly Zhougong Temple), located in Dingding South Road, Luoyang City, was built in the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty, for the Sui general Wang Shichong grass creation, after generations of reconstruction, so far 1370 years. The temple is an ancestral temple to commemorate the famous politician and military strategist Zhou Gong Ji Dan in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. There is a group of intact ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties and the standing statue of the eldest son of Zhou Gong in the Ming Dynasty. The new plastic Zhou Gong icon and the Zhou Gong Ritual Music Activity Group Statue, etc. The museum also produces and displays the sand table model of the five major capitals of Luoyang (the summer capital, the Shang capital Xibo, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Han and Wei dynasties, and the Sui and Tang dynasties).

Luoyang: The ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties

Known as "Luoyang!" Sunset! For "the place where the sun sets", this is as if to say "the place where the old dynasty sinks"! It is a place where the "Sun Plaster Flag" of Little Japan does not dare to approach, and when it gets close to the "Yellow River at sunset", the soldiers will return to the camp by shooting targets.

"If you want to ask about the rise and fall of the world, please only look at Luoyang City." Because it's the place where the sun goes down and returns! "The dragon and snake are hidden on the road, and the government and the field are connected to the mountains." It is a true portrayal of Luoyang, the ancient god capital.

As the history of the capital, there is no city in the world longer than Luoyang. Looking at the Longmen Grottoes, which have more than 100,000 statues and have entered the list of world cultural heritage, the White Horse Temple, the oldest temple in China, known as the ancestral court of Shiyuan, and the peony of the city that was relegated to Luoyang by Wu Zetian, is like reading a general history of China with a few pages missing.

As one of the first historical and cultural cities and seven ancient capitals (Xi'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Beijing, Anyang, Nanjing and Hangzhou) announced by the State Council, Luoyang has a history of nearly 5,000 years. Luoyang is located in the western part of Henan Province, spanning both sides of the middle reaches of the Yellow River. In history, 13 dynasties have set up the national capital here, and the history of the capital is up to 1529, which is the earliest, the most dynasties and the longest history of the capital in the long history of China. Because she is north of the Luo River, it is called Luoyang. The ancient name is Wangcheng, Chengzhou. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Cao Wei Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Later Liang Dynasty, and the Later Tang Dynasty successively set their capitals here, and it has always been known as the "ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties". Now it has jurisdiction over 9 counties and cities, including Mengjin, Xin'an, Yanshi County, Yima, Yiyang and Yichuan, with an area of 15,208 square kilometers. There are famous enterprises such as tractor manufacturing factory, mining machinery manufacturing factory, glass manufacturing factory, etc. Metallurgy, building materials, petrochemical, textile, coal, food and other industrial categories are relatively complete. The tourism resources are rich and colorful, there are many cultural relics and historic sites, the center of the activities of the Xia Dynasty more than 4,000 years ago, and the first temple of Buddhism introduced to China, the White Horse Temple, are all here. Luoyang's famous specialty is in full view, Luoyang peony is known as "the world's best color", Tang Sancai is still my traditional Chinese arts and crafts. With such a beautiful old and young city with so many treasures, why don't you take a look and take a walk?

Luoyang is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization and has a profound ancient cultural heritage. The Heluo culture, represented by the "Hetuluo Book", is regarded as the "ancestor of human roots" and "the ancestor of humanity". The ritual music of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty became an important system of rules and regulations in ancient society. Confucianism flourished here; Taoism was founded here; Buddhism was first transmitted here; Science is greater than that. The geodynamic instrument, the armillary sphere, and Hou Fengyi developed here. The Book of Han was completed here, the literature of the Wei and Jin dynasties flourished here, and many major achievements in ancient China's science and technology, education, literature, history, philosophy, etc., were made in Luoyang. As a long-term glorious and prosperous ancient capital and economic and cultural center, history has left Luoyang with rich and splendid cultural heritage such as capital ruins, temples, grottoes, tombs and monuments. The Longmen Grottoes are one of the three major treasure houses of stone carving art in China, and have been included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. Since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the tombs of the emperors formed the largest group of ancient tombs in China, more than 40 pieces of precious cultural relics have been unearthed, and the world's first ancient tomb museum has been built. The broad and profound Heluo culture has also made Luoyang a hot spot for overseas descendants of Yan and Huang to seek their roots and ancestors.