The Heavens And The Dragons—A Study Of Ruins About YanXia Cave Grottoes

The Yanxia Grottoes is located in Hangzhou City,Zhejiang Province,Xihu District south peak in the cave.The grotto dug in the five generation of Jin day,lucky(936-944),Wu Yue's deputy,Wu Yanqing monk official douzhihuishi Wu Yanshuang and other royal senior bureaucrats built collective donations.The whole cave to cave stone statues and the two Arhats statue carved Guanyin statue and known to the world,is an important representative of southern China grotto statues Sui and Tang Dynasties,has a very important artistic value.Since the millennium,due to the change of dynasties,military war,man-made damage and natural weathering and many other reasons,the caves severely damaged.According to statistics,since the haze caves dug five years later after generation,at least in Song Dynasty,the Qing Dynasty and the cultural revolution in 1979 the end of the three degree continuation or rebuild.In addition to the cave stone Buddha,Lohan,Guanyin statues,stone,and the haze mahamayuri and support the Dragon relief,relief,relief,large trees Tengyun embossed characters,ship relief,relief and other fine moire stone,but also serious damage to these stone reliefs.Some statues have been completely damaged,leaving only empty niches.This paper will be based on a review of previous research,using literature,the existing old photographs,this paper studies the results of previous studies.To carry out research and analysis,through the art style of the archaeological typology method of hazy grotto history of old,the rationality that restoration of damaged statues cave.The five generation of Wu Yue's grotto in the haze period,the number is not sixteen but eighteen arhat statue statue.This named kannei statues of Maitreya Maitreya statues should be reasonable to speculate that as a statue of bare belly arhat image in the Five Dynasties of the original,this hole in the west wall of the original deep haze,the statue niche(now empty niche),in the Five Dynasties of the original should be reasonable to speculate that the first suit is a statue of arhat image cover.This hole in the west wall in mahasthamaprapta Guanyin statues,the author believes that it should be named as the white goddess,and infer the spread and the five generation of Wu Yue in the period of Tianzhu Guanyin boddhi about.This paper will also haze grotto east wall remnants of patterns and characters of flower Tengyun relief research supposition,and in caves and support the west wall of stone relief(now empty niches)for the restoration of rationality that haze grotto east wall remnants of patterns and characters may Tengyun relief trees into Road on JiangMo and gautama.But it does not exclude the possibility of other murals.This paper argues that in the west wall grotto spire is a seven story octagonal stone wood structure,wood structure reflects the five generation period of the stone Wu Yue artistic features.However,its tower body shape system is relatively simple,indicating that it is only a relief tower,and its symbolic significance in the Grottoes is greater than the practical significance.