The Memory of Old Chinese Culture Datong Yungang Grottoes

Yungang Grottoes own 45 Buddhist grottos, every grotto, every Buddha, every traces, and even the mark left by the long history of 1,600 years, all let me stay there pleasant. At that time, I realized although I used up all words to describe the exciting mood and all ways to record it by camera, I cannot express its real glory, so just plaint the uselessness of word and photo. And I just comfort myself everything has its purpose.
Yu Qiuyu who is a famous writer in China says that the Chinese visual arts cannot just enjoy from the paintings and books, its grandest works is in the broad heaven and earth, in the wasteland of remote areas, in the mountain of north, and only in those places, they reveal so grand, so majestic, and so lonely. Although it always appears in books or screens, it cannot be compared with the time when you see it.

Yungang Grottoes sit in the Wuzhou Mountain in Datong, Shanxi Province. Wuzhou Mountain is the kind of commonest mountain in China, not very tall, but vast. See from the distance, just yellow, but closer see a new world. The winter is the real color belongs to Yungang Grottoes and it is the best time to join Datong tour here. Fewer visitors, the snow still not completely melt, the surrounded trees with spare branches as well as the most plants in north of China, reveals more simple and primitive, and the statues are plain and rough. I believe, everyone facing it will be shocked by its grand momentum, easily forget the bad mood influenced by the ticket. Passing through some rebuilt road and palace, arrive at the real Yungang Grottoes group, there are some Chinese words in entrance. In my opinion, person is enlightened by Buddhism owns the intelligence and realm as well as the Buddha, and then what is the opinion of Buddha? This question is hard, but the answer may be in it.

Buddhism is popular along the Silk Road from India, and the Buddhist art of grotto also follow it. There are three grottoes in China, with their characteristics. Different with the other two grottoes, Yungang Grottoes was accomplished by an individual dynasty and a nation, represents the North Wei Dynasty developed by ancient Xianbei nationality. In the back of the wonderful Yungang Grottoes is the lumpy history about a dynasty.

Thousand years had gone, North Wei Dynasty and Xianbei nationality had been no longer in existence, but they left this anthology of Buddhist art. On the magnificent wildness, it once entrusted the dream of unifying the whole country by the burly nomads. A nationality without trace left their dignity and belief to melt into the blood of their later generations. Yungang Grottoes become the witness of the existence of this nationality.