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Description: City in northern China, in Henan Province. Luoyang (Simplified Chinese: 洛阳; Traditional Chinese: ... more

Luoyang ... 洛陽; pinyin: Luòyáng) is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyang to the south, Sanmenxia to the west, Jiyuan to the north, and Jiaozuo to the northeast. Situated on the central plain of China, one of cradles of the Chinese civilization, Luoyang was one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. It is an industrial center on the Luo River, a tributary of the Huang He (Yellow River). A very famous attraction are the Longmen Caves, with nearly 100,000 Buddhist cliffside carvings begun in the 5th century AD.

Newest Review: ... to one that is easily forty or fifty feet high (some of the statues from this largest grotto are shown in the Luoyang picture above). Western souvenir hunters who discovered the Longmen Caves in the 19th and 20th century set about the figures of Buddha with tools, and decapitated many of the statues of Buddha. The removed heads can now be found in museums and private collections across ... more

... Europe and North America, and two removed murals are on display in museums in the United States (one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the other in the Atkinson Museum in Kansas City). The Red Guards also damaged several of the statues during...more

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Luoyang: The city of Peonies (1586 words)
by - written on 06/02/01 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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The city of Luoyang is certainly not the most attractive place in China, and it's likely that your first impressions of the place will not be particularly positive. Certainly, when we arrived late in the evening at the gargantuan train station in Luoyang after a seven hour train journey from Xi'an, the buildings opposite the station were far from welcoming. However, in the light of the following day Luoyang seemed a slightly more cheerful place, even if the centre of the city did suffer slightly from the usual pollution problems of Chinese cities. HISTORY Luoyang has a very long history, having been founded back in 1,200 BC. For large portions ... Read the complete review

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