The grottoes in gansu province, the span 1600 years, known as the 'Oriental figurines house' reputation _ figurine skills1

Core tip: have already heard of tianshui maijishan name, known as the 'Oriental sculpture gallery' of reputation. So with your colleagues, and cheerfully to hajj maijishan. Shaped like a named up-hill like up-hill along the long heard of tianshui maijishan name, known as the 'Oriental sculpture gallery' of reputation. So with your colleagues, and cheerfully to hajj maijishan. Shaped like a named up-hill like up-hill along the tianshui city marching about 35 kilometers to the southeast, the maijishan scenic area entrance. A ground form such as contained in the yard of the butte in pine and cypress, wild flowers is a standout in the tall grass, heart a thrill, I've come to the feet of the Chinese and foreign famous maijishan grottoes. Maijishan, piling up because of its shape like contained the name. Can be seen from a distance the chisel on the cliff of the Buddha and a mountainside corridors as the black shadow. To get around, more vivid and magnificent, had to sigh ancestors exquisite craft. All stone cave dug in a form as the wheat-rick hills, because of the mountain, also have a lot of good folk legends and bookman of lovers, so since ancient times, here the gas of the humanities is very strong. Eastern span of more than 1600 years of small sculpture gallery 'Oriental sculpture gallery' dongya three cliff Buddha is a sign of maijishan, the middle for the Buddha, 16 meters high, each side has a slightly less than the Buddha bodhisattva as a statue. Maijishan Buddha statue, a solemn silence, when you look up at his feet, shake your not only is he tall. Maijishan is sedimentary rock mountain, and is not suitable for carving of Buddha, but the wisdom of the elders is not what we can achieve, in a condition not good dug thousands of Buddha on the mountain. Saw the heard artwork, sword fighters of northern wei, sui tang wen wan smile, two song attire of blowing, seems to be back at history. Maijishan grottoes cliff pavilion is smooth as silk road and the first from the sixteen later qin ( In A. D. 384-417) Started to build. According to beam 'monk biography, the south song dynasty years, monk haze, zen feel maijishan, monk xuan high following to name soon, two people live temple, there is often an apprentice of more than three hundred people, is the buddhist house at that time. Maijishan grottoes past dynasties has constantly digging or rebuild, although history has been the destruction of the earthquake, fire, and many times is still save the grottoes, 194, clay sculpture, stone carving statues of more than 7800 statues, murals thousands square meters, north cliff cabinet eight, maijishan grottoes in dunhuang mogao grottoes, yungang henan longmen, shanxi, and called China's four big grottoes. The mogao grottoes are famous for their paintings, longmen, and yungang is known for its stone sculptures, while maijishan, with exquisite small sculpture grottoes statue, more perfect, continue long time known as the 'Oriental sculpture gallery'. Maijishan located in tianshui, gansu province wheat product area, is a butte in forest area, 142 meters high, named after the deep yamagata resembles hay bale. Maijishan grottoes was founded in 384 - In 417, the 221 caves, 10632 body clay sculpture, stone carving, more than 1300 square meters of murals, is known for its fine clay sculpture art world, known as the Oriental small sculpture art galleries.