The culture of Cambodia, Angkor Wat:, unforgettable peak of

This is my online collection of an introduction, Angkor Wat article, I have it posted here to express my admiration of the Angkor Wat, hope to ever again to appreciate its charm.

(I added some pictures from the shoot)

Angkor is Cambodia's ancient and tourist attraction, is located at Tonle North, 6 km from Siem Reap city.

9-15 century a.d. to the capital of the Khmer Empire. The first was built in the 8th century, built in the 13th century, the occupying a land area of 15 square kilometres. Angkor monuments include large, Angkor Empire city of flux and Angkor VAT; various architectural of approximately 600 seat. There are 5 magnificent pagoda and wonderful emboss, is world famous Khmer culture and monuments, but also the world famous Buddhist architecture. The flag of the Kingdom of Cambodia's pattern is the Santa, Angkor Wat. Angkor monuments have been covered by jungle, in the late 19th century, only to be rediscovered.

Angkor VAT

Angkor Wat and Angkor Temple, is the oldest and most magnificent temple, but also save the best of the 88.

Angkor Wat is divided into "Angkor" and "Angkor" in two places, including Angkor complex more ambitious. The Angkor monuments, covers an area of 310 square kilometers, including four temple architecture. The residue of a wall in a column, you can still see those fine engraving process. Traverse technologies really stunning, it's no wonder that Angkor VAT is "King" carving out this reputation. It and the great wall of China, Indonesia, Egypt pyramid of Borobudur and classified as Eastern four miracles. It is said that the building is called 1,500 million migrant workers. Temples all huge sandstone rocks overlapping blocks. The heaviest stones weighing over 8 tons, no adhesion between the rocks.

The monastery is surrounded by wide trenches of 190 m, total length 5.6 km around.

The main hall there are 5 seats on the Tower, the central tower is 65 m, courtyard ground floor gallery covered with carved in relief on the walls. These are embossed content reflecting the lives of people, such as hunting, fishing, farewell, war, etc.; a reproduction of the ancient legends, such as "churning of the sea of milk" and "the God of magic" and other fairy tales; the fall sitting of the Buddha, a dance goddess, poll, birds, insects, fish carving, the posture of thousands, vivid. Pagoda outside of stone carved statues of various postures, up to several tens of meters, the image is very vivid.

The first half of the 15th century, the ancient capital of Angkor temples abandoned, this is also the wild left out.

After the middle of the 19th century, becoming re-dressing world famous monuments. The entire architecture Hongwei elegant, extremely skillful, fully reflects the Cambodian ancient craftsmen's amazing height artistic talents and wisdom.

"Angkor" also known as Angkor city, spent 20 years construction, special place is built with stone walls, a moat defending the homeland outside.

Five gates to the South Gate of the most complete, both sides of the entrance gates, the two rows of stone carving, the left is God, the right is the devil. BA Rong Temple Angkor in the city's most important buildings, temples in the city center, on the steps, such as mountains and 54 of the ancient tower, surrounded by a 40-meter circular tower; the top of each block, stone, carved with a giant statues, spectacle spectacular. In addition, the two layers and outside next to the cloister and large emboss, manual fine, highly appreciated value.

Angkor-Angkor is only ten minutes ' drive away.

Five-seater Lotus bud-shaped like Santa, five giant corn, straight to the sky. Five-seater Santa to Central a large, each with four steps have the promenade, with the characters in the story of Buddhism. After a steep stone, go to highest point, the previous Emperor worship God.

Sculpture art

Angkor VAT round sculpture is not good.

Base round sculpture statue on heavy and dull, but it is extremely delicate and embossing very realistic. In the cloister walls and pillars, stone walls, Foundation, window above the fins, bar dry, there is relief. Content is about the Hindu legend of the great God Pishinu, taken from India epic Mo he close at a lot of code and the Ramayana Hin-the law and the Hindu Mythology, the sea of milk have war, Royal travel, cooking, crafts, agricultural activities, and other mundane scenes, decorative patterns on the theme of the fauna and flora. Which revolves around the Temple of the Lord and tier 1 circular transitions were called "relief corridors", as long as 800 meters, more than 2 m high wall, wall full of relief. East wall of mixing milk nautical charts, the North wall of the ROE figure pishinu and Prince, west wall of the Ramayana monkey God help combat figure, depicting mythological stories; and the Western half of the south wall of soulie PostScript Mo II riding like expedition plans for secular subjects. These relief manual skill, attitude of complex scenes, vivid characters, vivid, and have been using overlapping hierarchy to display the far-reaching space, is a masterpiece of world art history. Looking from the inside out, and found out that there are many on the wall, curvaceous portrait relief, is said to be symbolic of the fairy comes down to a thousand years ago, the engraving technology turned out to be such a vivid depiction of the fairy, and a look, look, dress it totally different, is uncanny. This group of foot and beautiful fairy dance called ARPANET, Sarah, was known as the East of the Mona Lisa, it was the turn of the waves. The magnificent Angkor Wat is this group of pretty fairy, and the entire fresh.

In addition to the wall of the fairy cited compelling, walking in the temples, you can see a beautiful and delicate characterizations, sometimes to a post, sometimes in the corner.

There is also projecting, sink, or even both, alternating work are not difficult to find. Even the corridors of the window, but also to small stone pillar as a fence when sunlight shines through the window into the corridor, more integration of a human and the nature of beauty.

Architectural features

Base, corridors, push road, Angkor Temple pagoda constitute a complex of buildings.

Its layout is large-scale, proportion and well proportioned, design simple solemn, exquisite detail magnificent decorative. All buildings built with sand, stones without mortar or other adhesives, stone surface shape of structured and their weight in combination with each other. At the time of masonry may not acquire tickets arch technology, so no big Angkor Temple Palace, shadows are narrow stone room Yue, art decoration mainly focused on the building exterior.

The mystery of Angkor VAT

Angkor Wat is called by a

Do Kat strips (now called Khmer) built by the Southeast Asian nation, probably from the year 802, then PostScript widening El Moro II established the Khmer Empire, a brilliant prosperity up to 6 years old.

In the 12th century, Angkor was the art of architecture.

At that time the construction of the Angkor temples, all walls are inscribed with exquisite relief, around each platform has a long corridor for the Quartet, connected to the temple, corner tower and ladder, even if the gallery walls are all carved describes ancient India fairy tale of the Emboss. Angkor Temple not only its own scale, temple outside there is a nearly 10 meters wide road. Through the temple gates on both sides of the road are erected a great Majesty of the Gaya snake. — So to say, all the temples around the world are sitting facing East and West, but the Angkor temple gate toward the West, this allows later study ancient Khmer ºbest10000 puzzled archaeologists. Since then, the Angkor dynasty of ancient King of the city work — from generation to generation and transmission.

Angkor civilization building fine so I sigh, but in the early 15th century when people go to the city.

In the ensuing centuries, the Angkor region and into the trees and grass forest jungle and wilderness, only — block, a brilliant city hidden in it. Until the 19th century relic omuo found this before and even the Cambodian local residents are — no known.

By say anything — a national culture should have its continuity, not to mention Angkor is a once prosperous over 600 years of the dynasty, but it's culture was suddenly interrupted at once, suddenly disappear in the long process of history.

This was attributable to the foreign invasion of foreign enemies, but may cause the dynastic strife, but cannot make a nation of people completely disappear. According to the survey, in the Angkor region in the past there have been more than a million population live, this nation and these people really gone? this is really an unsolved puzzles.

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