Longmen Grottoes
Good morning! It's about 11:10 Saturday morning!
(Jared makes fun of me for telling the time, but I like it so everyone can see the difference)

Yesterday the school took us to Longmen Grottoes. Long=Dragon Men=Doors Grottoes=dynasty. In China the dragon represents the Dynasty and it protects the Dynasty so the place we went to had a palace where the Dynasty lived and you'd have to go trough the protecting doors. That's probably the worst explination ever but just read it 10 times and maybe you'll understand.

This is a picutre of the Biggest Longmen Grottoes all the little caves has different buddhas in them an dwe walked all along here. There are so many move "caves" we just couldn't fit them all in.
This next video is of the biggest statues the ones in the middle of the above picture.

So depending on who you ask the answers differ on how old they are and why there were made. Some say the Qin Dynasty (I think they said the Qin) had them made so they could pray to them and they are said to be 1000 years old. Others say the queen of the Qin dynasty was a vampire and she forced her slaves to make them for her and they were made in 500AD. They are so cool though. The pictures and video's don't do the justic. the paint and the detail in every single one of them is incredible! Jared and I just had a blast there!
If your wondering why some of them are faceless it's becuase durring WWII some people from other countries destroyed their faces out of hate. Others stole faces for themselves, some took them to different museums, and some I'm sure just fell off.

 

 

We love you! We'll try to post more on the blog, but neither Jared nor I are very good at remembering to do it. Sorry about that.