Two new discoveries!Longmen Grottoes Lushea Buddha's face for the first time detected gold and

Top News · Henan Commercial Daily reporter Fu Shoupeng

On June 13th, at the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, a reporter from the top news · Henan Business Daily saw that many tourists have visited in front of the Lushea Buddha who has not yet demolished the scaffolding and green protection network.

Shi Jiazhen, the dean of the Longmen Research Institute: "The cultural relics protection project of Fengxian Temple has ended, and archeological work and census work are also at the end of the end. It is expected that in July, it will meet tourists with a new look."

It is understood that Fengxian Temple is located in the southern section of Longmen Xishan. It is the largest cliff in Longmen Grottoes. Fengxian Temple sat east to the west, with a depth of about 38.7 meters and a width of about 33.5 meters north -south. The nine statues have their own shapes, forms and gods, and represent the highest achievements of sculpture art in the Tang Dynasty. They are models of oriental Buddhist art and a business card in Luoyang and even Henan.

This overhaul is also the first large -scale protection project that has been carried out since the protection and repair project of Fengxian Temple in the 1970s.

"The cultural relics protection project does not involve the protection and restoration of the cultural relics. It is mainly divided into two parts: dangerous rock body reinforcement and leakage treatment." Shi Jiazhen said that because it is not easy to set up a shelf, it consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. This opportunity launched a disease survey and evaluation of the cultural relics of Fengxian Temple and archeological work in the grotto temple.

"During this archeological process, a number of new discoveries were obtained. For example, the first discovery of the statues include glazed -eye beads, Lushea Buddha's facial detection, and the existence of silver elements, and the residue of painting pigments on the surface of the big Buddha." Shi Jiazhen introduced it. Essence

Before the statue of the Puxian Bodhisattva on the right side of the Lushea Buddha, the reporter of the top news · Henan Business Daily saw that the right eye bead of the statue was complete, and the left eye bead was only half the outside.

Fan Zilong, deputy director of the Cave Protection Research Center of the Longmen Grottoes Research Institute, introduced that the two eyes were ancient glazed -eye beads. The ingredients were silicon dioxide and lead. Among them, the right eye beads are a whole glazed glazed, and the left eye bead should be combined from two glazed. At present, only half the outside is left.

"After cleaning, it can be seen that the color of the glazed color is dark green, the texture is uniform, and the glittering." Fan Zilong said that the statue of Fengxian Temple preserved a large piece of Tang Dynasty glazed object, which was rare.

It is worth mentioning that the statue of the Puxian Bodhisattva is not symmetrical. The preliminary analysis should be that the excuses considers the perspective effect and rotated to the left to the left to reflect the Puxian Bodhisattva threatened the Lushe Buddha. It also reflects the superb sculpture level of the ancients.

"Through observation of the image excavation method, we infer that the Lusian Buddha has a eyes similar to the statue of the Puxian Bodhisattva when construction. At present, there is no eye in the eyes of the Luxiana Buddha, which is likely to be caused by the lack of later stages." Fan Zilong said.

In archeology, with the help of high -tech means, archeologists detected gold and silver elements on the face of Lusona Buddha for the first time. This is likely to use the "Patch" process when building the Great Buddha of Lushe.

On the surface of the Great Buddha of Luxian, green, red, black and other painted pigment residues were also found. Although it was affected by weathering and water seepage, it was rare, but from this new discovery, it can be speculated that this is likely to be dressed in colors in the Tang Dynasty. " clothing".

On the surface of the Puxian Bodhisattva, archeologists have also found white substances with uniform thickness. After analysis, their composition is mainly lead white, which not only helps pigment attachment and gold foil bonding, but also play a certain role in resisting natural weathering. "A large number of lead white discovery provides important information for the research and development of the traditional craftsmanship and the research and development of the traditional craftsmanship of Longmen Grottoes." Fan Zilong said.

"The discovery of gold, silver, painted pigments and glazed -eyed beads are of great significance for studying the decorative characteristics, production process and protection history of the statue of Fengxian Temple in Longmen Grottoes." Shi Jiazhen said.

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