Comparison Of The Northern Wei Dynasty Maiji Mountain And Qingzhou Longxing Temple Statues Art

The Eastern Han Dynasty and Jin Dynasty after the Buddhism and Buddhistculture to the China first peak dynasty,Grotto China most and almost all of theNorthern Wei Dynasty is related, and Maiishan Longxing Temple respectively in theEast and west of the Yellow River basin,Both of them have made brilliantachievements in the Northern Wei Dynasty.The Maijishan and Longxing Templestatues have many similarities in the content, both because of the existence of twodifferent forms of Buddhist culture, one is the grotto art,attached to the mountaincliff, is a temple of art,Statues often independent indoor or attached to the buildingwalls, both in the content has connected and different Longxing Temple, Buddhistcontent as content limited space attached to the temple wall relative to the Maijishansome single, is theBuddha, Guanyin Buddha, and Maitreya, followed byAmitabha,did not appear to support the people mountain type and the little novicemonk like statues, but has a strong central color andlocalization of color, the imageof the dragon is the statues in the use, which has typical significance, is a sign ofbeingchinese.Longxing Temple in the layout, monomer repeat, much as aBuddha twoBodhisattvas combination freestanding statue, this point and the Maijishan Maijishanis different, is often the one Buddha and two attendants or a Buddha with twodisciples andbook form, statues often exist in three or five images, there isechorelationship but not connected with each other. The main statue Maijishan is oftenthe main Buddha statue, the Longxing Temple is often a statue. Longxing Templeand Maiji Mountainin the art language performance, both with the same modelinglanguage, also by carving combining language forms, butbecause of differentmaterials have different visual effects,because of the different materials will usedifferent tools in theprocess of making statues, and using different drawing. The Maijishan statues large component depends on the painting,auxiliary repair manystripes and structure depend entirely on the painting, while the Longxing Templestatues have strong independence.Explore the reasons from the view of difference, the ancientChinese grottoesand a city has a great relationship, this city isthe Xiliang Liangzhou. Chinese grottoart is the earliest knownwhen push Liangzhou grottoes, Liangzhou Grottoes istheWuwei Tiantishan grottoes. Influenced by the West Fodongtransmission,especially directly influence directly by the Qiuci Grottoes art, Liangzhou is locatedin the west east along the cityin the early period of Xiliang finished grotto art mostearly exceptto go to the western region beyond the category of China, and createChinese grotto "Liangzhou mode",439years, the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyedthe northern Liang, the monks have been relocated, removing moved many peopleoutside the west south to Dunhuang and east to the Maijishan, making Dunhuangand Maijishan Grottoes culturedeveloped rapidly, at the same time in the year460,Liangzhoumonk Tan Yao presided over the cut after Yungang Grottoes,completedconstruction of representative works "Yungang Grottoes five Tan Yao cave". Andafter five Tan Yao masterfrom Liangzhou to another monk Xuan Ping Cheng highout of Liangzhou has lived in seclusion Maijishan in Pingchengbefore, and then theLiangzhou grotto culture will undoubtedlyhave a certain influence on the later Qinbegan the Maijishan grottoes. Influence of temple statues by the grotto, at the sametime as the Northern Wei Dynasty unified the influence ofBuddhist Center moved toLuoyang city and further affect the economy and culture is relatively prosperousShandongPeninsula, forming a scale unprecedented Longxing Temple stone statues.The Maijishan and Longxing Temple were two in the thin bone Ching as stylesystem under different performance, because the two geographical reasons, slightlyart performance differences,such differences are rich in the Northern Wei Dynastystatuesstyle, also promoted the development of China ancient sculpture art,improvement and development the form and language of traditional sculpture.