Re: Qilu earth seeking Buddha

Buddhism was introduced into China from the Eastern Han Dynasty, followed by the art of statues. In the early Northern and Southern Dynasties, the propositions of the northern and Southern Dynasties followed the preferences of the literati and officialdom in their "praise and dress" and "show bone clear images", emphasizing the bone law and temperament, and having a thick back screen and the right and left symmetrical clothing lines. These features are visible on several northern and Eastern Wei statues unearthed from Longxing Temple. The statue of Longxing Temple is so famous that it possesses a number of unique statues of the Northern Qi Dynasty. The Qingzhou North Qi Buddha statue changed the style of the northern and Southern Dynasties, no longer has a huge back screen, no heavy clothing lines, put the focus on the outline of the body, emphasizing the aesthetic sense of the body itself. The Dragon statues of northern Longqi temple are mostly wearing light shoulder robes with shoulders or open shoulders, with simple patterns or no tattoo. This style is called "Cao Yi water" in ancient books, which is obviously different from that of other places in China, but it has obvious similarities with the Gupta style of India haddcuso, which may be the "lotus flower", which is in full bloom in the cultural exchanges between China and India.
when I visited the statue of Longxing Temple, I wondered who and why so many statues were buried there. Back at the hotel, I turned on my computer and read some papers. There are three kinds of hypotheses proposed by experts, one is buried by the "three martial" movement of Buddha, and two is the local Buddhist custom, and some of the monasteries will bury the damaged Buddha regularly; three is the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the golden soldiers south, and the monks of Longxing Temple buried the Buddha in order to avoid the war. It is also a coincidence that in the cellar, a statue that engraved four years in the Northern Song Dynasty (1026), overthrew the first two hypotheses. The Northern Song Dynasty statue indicated that the Longxing Temple was buried in the Northern Song Dynasty, and there was no movement to extinguish Buddhism at that time. The local Buddhist custom could not last more than 500 years in the same place. The only biggest possibility was to avoid the war. Perhaps many of the mysteries in history have been unveiled because of a small coincidence. If there were no Northern Song statues in the Longxing Temple, there might be an unsolved mystery in the Chinese history books.

Tibet Museum of Qingzhou Museum, North painted painted gold Buddha head.
the statues of Zhucheng and Qingzhou are from the cellar, and the temple is once a temple. Longxing Temple is undoubtedly lucky compared to those of Zhucheng who are not even known at present, even if the 800 years of brilliance have no trace, at least the Longxing Temple is reproduced in another form in the Qingzhou Museum. I am not satisfied with the visit of the Qilu land to Buddhism. I will also explore two other temples around Ji'nan, which are the origin of Buddhism in Shandong. What stories do they have? Let's say the next story.