The Grottoes on Xumi Mountain are located on the east slope of Xumi Mountain, 55 kilometers northwest of Guyuan County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
The name of Xumi Mountain is a translation from Sanskrit, which means a treasure mountain. With the hills, trees and rivers, the grottoes display a beautiful surrounding. Judging by the form of grottoes and the style of sculptures, they were initially built in the late Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534) and completed with effort in the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-907).
According to the inscription for the reconstruction in during the reign of Chenghua twelve year (1476) in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), it was named Jingyun Temple in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and renamed to Guoguang Temple in the Ming Dynasty. Originally, there were more than 130 grottoes with temples on the ground. However, only 20 well preserved grottoes remained scatter on the five peaks. They were called by the native as Dafo Lou (Great Building of Buddhism), Zisun Gong (Palace for offspring), Yuanguang Temple, Xiangguo Temple and Taohua Cavern (Peach Blossom Cavern), winding for two kilometers.
In the grottoes of Xumi Mountain, there remained many inscriptions left from the Tang, Song, Western Xia, Jin and Ming Dynasties (618-1644) and some steles from the Ming Dynasty, which are important materials for studying the spread of Buddhism during the Tang, Song, Jin, Western Xia, and Ming dynasties.
With a far different from one of most domestic rock caves that is only cut on a stone precipice, Xumi mountain rock cave and cut it on 8 distant stones mountains of wide gap, the pattern is peculiar, and there are ladder bridges that link up between every ditch. Xu-mi mountain ridges and peaks one pile of screen-like mountain peaks, luxuriant Lin Mu, draw near and have flowing water, the scenery is beautiful, is the northwest rare scenic spot of loess plateau. Already a ladder has put up a bridge between every ditch, in order to visit.
The geographical position of Xumi mountain rock cave is remote. Choose weather kind season to visit. Generally speaking the best in summer, will do in spring and autumn, not very suitable in winter. Xumi mountain rock cave with four major rock cave different, need, climb, snowy winter, and the rainy day is not suitable for visiting very much. Try hard to avoid noon in summer of visiting time, relatively shine, need supplementary a large amount of water. Drive way very convenient for walking, sleet weather you had better careful by oneself.
The rock cave art is Buddhism art, it has reflected Buddhism thought and course taken place, developed, ones that create it like, Bodhisattva, arhat, defend the doctrine,and Buddha line, various story image where Buddha grow originally, all create out through life image of concrete people. Therefore it can't cut off and contact with historical period people's life, it does not reflect social life directly like other arts, but it twists reflect all life scene period historical, personage of different levels. This should be a characteristic of a rock cave art.
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