I. Luoyang traditional cultural elements and customs Luoyang culture includes Longmen Grottoes, Baima Temple, Luoyang Peony, Guanlin, large-scale sites in Luoyang area and Luoyang Water Seats.
1, the world cultural heritage-Longmen Grottoes
Longmen Grottoes is one of the treasures of stone carving art in China and a national AAAAA-level scenic spot. It is located on Longmen Mountain and Xiangshan Cliff on both sides of Yishui River, south of Luoyang City, Henan Province, China12km. It was unearthed from the mid-Northern Wei Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty and lasted for more than 400 years.
2. White Horse Temple, the first ancient temple in China.
The White Horse Temple in Luoyang is a world-famous Galand and the first ancient temple in China. It is the first official temple after Buddhism was introduced into China, and it has been praised as "the source of Buddhism" and "the ancestral hall" by Chinese and foreign Buddhist circles. Baima Temple was built in the 11th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 68).
3, the national flower-Luoyang Peony
Peony in Luoyang is a perennial deciduous shrub, which is elegant, beautiful and magnificent, implying auspiciousness, wealth and prosperity. It is a symbol of the prosperity and happiness of the Chinese nation. The history of peony cultivation in Luoyang began in Sui Dynasty and reached its peak in Tang Dynasty. It is said that Luoyang peony was the best in the world in the Song Dynasty.
4. Loyalty-Guan Lin
According to legend, Guanlin was the place where the head of Guan Yu, the general of Shu State, was buried during the Three Kingdoms period. It is located in Guanlin Town, 7 kilometers south of the old city of Luoyang, Henan Province. Guanlin is one of the three major temples at home and abroad, with the ancient city of Sui and Tang Dynasties in the north, Longmen Grottoes in the south, Luolong Avenue in the west and Liuqinghe in the east. It is the only ancient classic building in China that integrates burial, temple and forest, and it is a national 4A-level tourist attraction.
5. Large sites in Luoyang area
The large sites in Luoyang area include large-scale remains of the origin and development of Chinese civilization and culture from Xia Shang Dynasty to Sui Tang Dynasty, with outstanding value, dense distribution and large scale. Erlitou Site, Yanshi Mall, Eastern Zhou Imperial City, Han and Wei Ancient City and Luoyang City along the Luohe River record the historical rise and fall of the Chinese nation.
6. Luoyang water mat
Luoyang water mat is a unique traditional food in Luoyang area. It is characterized by good meat quality, wide selection of materials, simplicity and complexity, diverse tastes, sour, spicy, sweet, salty, comfortable and delicious. Luoyang water mat has two meanings: first, all hot dishes have soup and water; Second, the hot food Luoyang water mat is ready, and then removed from the shelf, constantly updated like running water.
Introduction to Luoyang Culture Luoyang is a thousand-year-old ancient capital with a long history and profound cultural heritage. "Huang Huang's ancestral business, forever Huai Heluo." Luoyang, located in the hinterland of Kyushu, has a history of more than 5,000 years of civilization, 4,000 years of city building and 1500 years of capital building. Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, Hou Liang, Later Tang and Later Jin Dynasties 13. At present, the national key cultural relics protection units are 5 1, and the Henan cultural relics protection units are 1 15, with more than 9,000 immovable cultural relics and more than 420,000 cultural relics in the collection. Wudu Ruins, Erlitou in Xiadu, Yanshi Mall, Wangcheng in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Gucheng in the Han and Wei Dynasties, Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, are lined up along the Luohe River, which is rare in the world. Longmen Grottoes, China's Grand Canal (Huiluocang, Jiacang Site), Silk Road (Han and Wei Ancient City, Dingdingmen of Luoyang City in Sui and Tang Dynasties, Hanguguan Site in Han Dynasty in Xin 'an), three and six world cultural heritages, which have passed through the Millennium, shine brilliantly; After Buddhism was introduced into China, the first official temple, Baima Temple, was the only forest dedicated to Guan Gong. The protection and exhibition projects of Luoyang National Historical and Cultural Park, Tang Ming, Paradise, yingtianmen and Kyushu Pool in Sui and Tang Dynasties all showed Luoyang's rich historical and cultural heritage. Luoyang is the foundation of Confucianism, the birthplace of Taoism, the earliest spread of Buddhism, the formation of metaphysics, the birthplace of Neo-Confucianism, where various cultural ideas coexist and shine brilliantly. Four great inventions of ancient china's compass, papermaking and printing were all born here, and the world's first seismograph was also invented here. China's first dictionary, Shuo Wen Jie Zi, is the first chronological history, and Luoyang is also the cultural root and ancestral vein of Chinese people all over the world. More than 65438+ billion Hakkas have lived here, and 70% of the clan surnames in China originated here. Heluo culture, represented by Hutuluo, is the ancestral source of Chinese civilization.