About this place

Longmen grottoes is one of the Chinese stone carving art treasure house, now the world cultural heritage, national key units of cultural relics protection, national AAAAA level scenic spots, located in the area of henan luoyang los dragon river on both sides of the longmen mountain and the fragrant hills. Longmen grottoes and mogao grottoes, yungang grottoes, maijishan grottoes and the four great grottoes in China.

Longmen grottoes carved in the northern wei emperor xiaowen years later after the eastern wei, wei, beiqi, sui, tang, five dynasties, song dynasty such as large-scale building for more than 400 years in a row, the north and the south, 1 kilometers today entities grottoes, 2345, more than 100000 Buddha statues, inscriptions by more than 2800 products. Among them, the "longmen 20 products" is the essence of calligraphy, and the "tablet of the iquitu niches" by chu suiliang is an example of the art of the regular script.