· Location: Luoyang City, Henan Province
· Time needed: 3 hours
Longmen Grottoes
The Longmen Grottoes enjoy a good location where two mountains (Mount Xiang and Mount Longmen) confront each other and the Yi River flows between them. Spanning a length of about 1 kilometer on a hillside along the river, the niches resemble dozens of honeycombs dotting the area.
There are about 2,100 caves and niches, over 40 cremation urns, 3,600 inscribed stone tablets, and over 100,000 Buddhist images and statues.
The grand scale of the stone carvings is magnificent. The Longmen Caves, as they are also called, are of great value to the history of world sculpture.
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