Third, the art of the perfect and regret - Yungang Grottoes (2002-9-12)

The most north of Datong in Shanxi Province, Datong, so the closer the climate more and more cold. We seem to advance into the fall.
On the train heard a joke that Datong Coal much less water, even tap streams are out of the water with the ash it! Students began to worry about drinking and bathing from a question!
Coal and water for bathing and one that certainly is a bit exaggerated, but it graphically illustrates the Shanxi coal mine for the environment pollution. Especially in the "coal capital" also known as Datong, water is certainly most likely to be affected.

Fortunately, we live in hostels conditions can also be, at least 24 hours continuous water available for supply. Let us only that content with a!

From Datong Yungang the CMB, on up through the window to see the scenery is desolate stretch of yellow mound and black coal. Was nothing monotonous life! Windows are never open, a flutter open the bonnet surface that is dust and coal dust.
This is leading to the Yungang route to take? I doubt more than one occasion.
I feel that the geographical environment Datong Tanxi!

Yungang finally arrived! This is contrary to Luoyang, Longmen Grottoes in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and caves, one of the three par!
Caves things about one kilometer stretch around the mountain on the potential, patchwork. Nowhere to be seen, only after seeing an erosion of the caves take the column and numerous large and small cave. Who have been dazzling artistic treasures, after the baptism of years of history, showing a kind of tragic but the awesome beauty!

Being the door is located in the central part of a group of Yungang Grottoes pairs of cave (fifth and sixth Cave Cave), is the only two timber-framed pavilion with the Qing Dynasty to protect the cave up.

One foot in, one Manasarovar!
Grottoes center of a huge square Pylon, through Ku Ding, in the interior to form a back-shaped channel. Walking in the channel, people's attention simply do not know where to stay, in addition to the ground at the foot of the hole from the stone walls to the ceiling and then to the central Pylon, aspects, and each inch of the land are full of large and small birds Buddha, Bodhisattva, to heaven, Kuregaku days, and a variety of Patterns, the whole world splendid, splendid! Simply immersive Wonderland!

See the spectacular scene, I probably have the same reaction, speechless!
What is no selfishness, only head and eyes in motion! See my eyes!

Or find someone good in order to see the good! I look at them while listening to tour guides to explain, the original wall relief is a story of each group scenario, according to the order of viewing, you can connect into a complete allusions to Buddhism. And this interpretation is the grotto where the Buddha release Jia Moni from birth to give up the superior's court life of a monk and finally attain the Buddha story.
This is also the story of the most famous Buddhist scriptures.
Zhengou sounds magical, and to this temple on the layer of rendering illusory elegant colors.

Turn back I watched an entire circle around the Pylon, Pylon has the upper and lower layers, the top four sides are carved standing Buddha statues, each carved pagoda Pylon corner. The lower four chisel with shrines, each Kannei has carved a Buddha.
Suanlaisuanqu, the proportion of Buddha is always up. As a whole a Buddhist heaven!

If I can, I really willing to find a suitable place for lying down and slowly appreciate my head turn, twist in the past, and the neck was twisted pain.
However, as not enough, there are many fine details hidden in the cave shrine of years, how could not see clear!
Greedy, I think, the best there is automatic lift, and allow me to arbitrarily read your fill!

There the story than this one cave, almost every cave has its ideas and all the contents of a large number of Buddhist allusions to us at all times, both in imparting the spirit of Buddhism, the most broad.

Yungang Buddha is the sixth largest cave in a gamma release seated, up to 17 meters, this Buddha is said to be at the same time standing lap 120.
Imagined that the height and size do? What a solemn style ah! The first time such a huge statue of the relatively close, the only feeling that is true!
No matter how I craned, you can see the view is always limited.

In addition to appreciation and admiration, I had forgotten earlier if the real purpose of this trip. Have seen students write in! Hastened out of my sketchbooks, and pen.

Buddhism originated in India, so most of the designs, patterns are ancient India, ancient Greece and Persia ambience, decorated with a very strong flavor!
In the warm tones of the background, fly, dance and music, the image combined with each other, China, India and Central Asia cultures blend to form an appreciation of the value of most pieces of art picture!
Definitely worth depict down slowly learning and research ah! Simply no way to portray them down one by one.

Open Buddha (20th Cave) always makes your breath stop the longest place. Pylon is not supported, open spaces to the Buddha's largest exhibition space, we can finally have a wider viewing angle to watch all the details of the! Front, side, in addition to the top.
Can be used a simple machine is the only place looks good.
Unfortunately, what! I do not have a professional camera, or can be photographed more exquisite works of art!

Lord Buddha sitting peacefully in the daylight patterns, the great momentum, as if with a broad mind overlooking the sentient beings and so on.
2 black glass stones embedded in the statue's eyes, so that a more human Buddha.
Behind the cliff Buddha carved over a variety of moire, flying, sitting Buddha, etc., the layout symmetrical and orderly, with the main statues formed a rough and fine contrast, but seamless, but amazingly ingenious composition and skills of the superb!
Like the main east and west sides there are two original standing Buddha, but now the only remaining western one, and the other early years had been destroyed!

Incomplete not just that the ancient Buddha statues ah!
Yungang Cave in the east and west sides of a large group of Cave, I see a lonely and helpless Holy Land, and the gradual loss of cultural spirit ... ...
This historical legacy and cultural treasures are everywhere for its defects and injuries to the body to the world describing a kind of helpless Cangsang.

Yungang calendar year from the exhibition, we saw the caves where the Buddha wearing a "piece of black gauze," when the scene! Yungang ditch that was caused by coal mining disaster!
Large and small, dense crowd at the Yungang Coal Mine around the cave was originally claimed color!
Industrial revival? Or cultural retreat fail? Is this is the development of cost?

Yungang Grottoes, left us in the exciting, but also had a number of regrets and chant ah!

I look forward to Yungang to restore pure sky day, after all, carries the hopes and dreams of many people!

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Travel Small with disabilities:

Tickets - Yungang Grottoes: 50 yuan (students enjoy half-price)
Datong Features - Coal eagle (an art coal waste as raw materials for processing. Because of low cost, the price is pretty cheap.)

Author: fishsy428