In Cambodia , there is a great building that has been buried in the jungle for nearly a thousand years. It was discovered by French explorers in the mid-19th century. In 1861, French biologist Henri Mouhot accidentally discovered tropical animals in the virgin forest. He discovered the magnificent Angkor ruins in the book "Travel Notes of the Kingdoms of Siam, Cambodia and Laos" and described it: "The grandness of the temples here is far superior to everything left to us by ancient Greece and Rome. Stepping out of the dense Angkor temples, Returning to the human world is like falling from splendid civilization to barbarism in an instant." Only then did the world begin to pay attention to this mysterious place. Angkor Wat is the pinnacle of Khmer classical architectural art. It is regarded as a national treasure throughout Cambodia. People regard it as an ancient monument together with the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal of India and the Thousand Buddhas of Indonesia. The four wonders of the East.
The sunrise at Angkor Wat is said to be one of the most beautiful sunrises in the northern hemisphere. Every morning at four or five o'clock, many photography enthusiasts spend $15 to rush to the lotus pond in front of Angkor Wat to wait for the earth-shattering beauty. time.
The magnificence of the sunrise at Angkor Wat does not lie in the moment when the sun breaks out of the horizon, but in the sky before the sun rises. The sky is filled with red clouds, blue, purple, gold and red, and the luxurious atmosphere combines the five iconic pagodas of Angkor Wat. When it is reflected in the blood-red lotus pond, at that moment, even if you have no faith, you will be moved by the beautiful gifts of heaven and earth!
Angkor Wat, also known as Angkor Temple, is located in Siem Reap province in northwest Cambodia. The original name was Vrah Vishnulok, which means "Vishnu's Temple". The ancient Chinese book "Dao Yi Zhi Lue" from the Yuan Dynasty calls it "Sangxiang Buddha House". It is the best-preserved temple among the Angkor monuments and is world-famous for its magnificent architecture and detailed reliefs.
UNESCO listed the Angkor monuments as a World Cultural Heritage in 1992. Since then, Angkor Wat, as a treasure among the Angkor monuments, has become Cambodia’s most beautiful tourist card. Over the past 100 years, countries around the world, including China, have invested a lot of money and manpower in the maintenance of Angkor Wat to protect this common cultural heritage of the people of the world.
The snake god Naga and the lion Xinma, who are missing their heads and mouths, express their unbearable memories to the world with their wordless sobs.
Angkor Wat faces east to west. The best time to visit is two hours before dusk. The nearly 300-meter-wide moat isolates the main building complex of Angkor Wat from the surrounding environment, forming an independent island and the only way to enter the complex. It is the stone bridge on the west side. On both sides of the ancient road are damaged magical beasts.
An ancient long causeway road from west to east, crossing the square moat, leads directly to the west gate of the temple wall. , in order to protect this ancient road, people built a floating bridge next to it for tourists to pass.
At a glance, there are five conical pagodas standing on the top floor of the pyramid-shaped temple. This classic shape has become a symbol of Cambodia and is engraved on the Cambodian flag.
Passing through the west gate of the city wall, you can see a stone road that goes straight through the green grass and leads directly to the west gate of Angkor Wat.
The ancient city wall is mottled with gray and white, and the exquisite reliefs have been weathered to the point that their faces are blurred. Through the antique connected windows, your eyes unexpectedly meet the beautiful women sitting in a daze outside!
The corridor surrounding the temple is a good place for lovers to cuddle up and reminisce. The years are silent, even if they travel through thousands of years, as long as the person next to you is you, that's fine!
It is said that when Cambodian elderly people reach the age of 70, they start to wear white clothes, eat vegetarian food, and worship Buddha wholeheartedly!
Angkor Wat's architectural style of inner and outer corridors has a long history in hot Southeast Asia. It not only blocks strong sunlight and continuous rainstorms, but also provides ventilation and cooling.
Walking into the west gate, there is a Tianjie Bridge that is 347 meters long, 9.4 meters wide, and 1.5 meters above the ground. It is also called the Central Avenue. There are seven-headed snake god Naga on both sides of the road as guardrails. Although tourists are sweating like rain, tourists still There was an endless stream.
The main temple of Angkor is composed of four corridors in the southeast, northwest and northwest (each corridor is divided into two wings), a west approach road, a main entrance, a triple cloister, and five minarets centered on the central minaret of the main temple, symbolizing Mount Meru in Hinduism. In the courtyard between the outermost corridor and the inner corridor, there are two sutra collection buildings symmetrically distributed.
Different from the impetuousness of most tourists, the calm monks always bring people peace and tranquility. They travel tirelessly through the long river of time, seemingly always looking for and enlightening!
Not far from the Sutra Pavilion, there is a lotus pond, which is a place specially designed for believers to bathe and purify before entering Angkor Wat. The water lilies are fragrant, the pond is full of lotus leaves, and the water drops are translucent. You can also see the reflections of the five pagodas of Angkor Wat in the water.
The water lily is closed in the afternoon, and it only blooms in the morning. But at this moment, the little lotus is just showing its sharp corners, and a dragonfly has already stood on it!
There is a tall forest to the south of the lotus pond. This is the best photography spot to take pictures of Angkor Wat. If you want to choose a good location or rest, you can spend a dollar to spend a long time here.
Angkor Wat is divided into three levels of base, which is square in shape. The first level is a square corridor with a side length of 200 meters, and a total length of 800 meters. Many girls have the idea of going to Angkor Wat because they watched "In the Mood for Love" and want to look for the scene in the movie where Tony Leung tells his secrets to the little Angkor wall hole!
When the sun shines bright beams of light into the windows of Angkor Wat, I wake up from my dream. Every city wall, every stone door, every stone road, every stone brick, and every relief here is also one by one. After waking up, a thousand-year-old temple opened her vicissitudes of life but wise eyes, and greeted every pilgrim who came as promised with a smile.
The first floor is a square corridor with a side length of 200 meters and a total length of 800 meters. There are huge relief statues on each side, showing mythological stories from the Indian epics "Bharayinna" and "Makbharata". Because the display sequence of the cloisters is arranged counter-clockwise, visitors need to go from west to south, then turn east, and finally go north to tour counter-clockwise.
The exquisite goddess statues on the walls of the corridor show their graceful figures. In Hindu legends, when Shura and Asura were stirring the sea of milk, the goddess Apsara rose from the sea. They were radiant and graceful, with different hairstyles and a slight smile on their faces. They mainly entertain the gods with singing and dancing. Their beautiful figures can be seen everywhere in the architectural monuments of Angkor. They are also a mythological image that is generally loved by people in Southeast Asia and has spread widely.
In the 12th century, King of the Angkor Dynasty Suryavarman II (Suryavarman II) decided to build a magnificent cave temple on the ground as the capital and national temple of the Angkor Dynasty. Therefore, it took a nationwide effort and took about 35 years to build it successfully. Records about Angkor Wat can be traced back to Zhou Daguan, a dispatched official of the Yuan Dynasty. He called Angkor Wat the "Tomb of Luban" in "The Customs of Chenla". The book records that Angkor Wat is The royal tombs and temples of the kings at that time.
Protected by four pagodas, in the center of the temple hinterland stands a pagoda that reaches into the sky. The pagoda in the middle is 65 meters high and stands on the Xumi Platform of nearly 15 meters. If you want to see the deity above, you need to bend your head and your hands and feet and climb the stone steps at an angle of nearly 70 degrees to express your love for the deity. of admiration.
The temple is divided into three floors. Each floor is built with a square base made of red sand and stone, and is connected by intricate corridors. There are towers in each corner of the second and third floors as symbols, and each tower has a square base. There are symbolic lotus stone carvings on the top. The steps leading to the upper level are almost vertical. The previous steps had no handrails. In 1973, a French female tourist slipped and fell to her death. In grief, her husband donated money to build handrails on one side of the steps to avoid a recurrence of the tragedy. This side of the staircase is also called the "staircase of love."
To this day, this staircase is still the only way to climb the central tower.
The temple has five pagodas, symbolizing the five tops of Mount Meru, the residence of the Hindu gods. The black and gray stones look particularly solemn and mysterious against the blue sky. What's even more magical is that when the setting sun shines on the pagoda, the pagoda will become golden and dazzling!
Each floor of the tower is surrounded by corridors, forming an architectural pattern of "encircling each other", which is the biggest feature of Angkor Wat architecture. There are four large pools distributed among the inner corridors, which were used as bathing and purification places for monks or worshipers in the past. The walls of the cloister are covered with complex and exquisite reliefs, the themes of which are mainly taken from the two major epics of Hinduism, Ramayana and Mahabharata.
It is said that Angkor Wat was a huge project, and many craftsmen were hired from China to carve reliefs, but it is impossible to verify the specific ones. However, from the stone pillars of the cloister, you can clearly see the works carved on them by some Chinese "craftsmen", which is really shameful!
Climbing to the top of the tower and looking down at the bottom of the tower, I really feel like the gods are above. All living things, all phenomena in the world, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, and the tricks of ghosts and ghosts, cannot escape the eyes of gods and Buddhas.
There is a little accumulation of water on the dry inner pool. The golden glow of the setting sun is reflected on the water through the ancient temple. The pigeons pecking at the water seem to be standing in a pool of newly melted golden juice. It is extremely gorgeous!
Because Angkor Wat was originally built to worship Hindu gods, and later gradually evolved into a Buddhist temple, there are countless monks and Hindus tapping their feet on the stone slabs in the long corridors of the temple.
There are many exquisite fairy reliefs on the top of the pagoda. Among all the temples in the entire Angkor ruins, Angkor Wat has the largest number of fairy reliefs and the best preservation.
On the west side of the second floor of the temple, interested friends can carefully search for the location of the movie "In the Mood for Love": at the end of the film, Tony Leung came to Little Angkor and confided his secrets to a small hole in the wall. .
Looking back at the warm sunset, the glory of ancient Khmer has turned into smoke of the past. Respecting history and reverence for nature are the best commemorations!
The divine monkey Hanuman walked slowly towards the ancient temple. When the jungle embraced the palace, it seemed that it had become the home of the Monkey Kings.
The red-faced Monkey King, dressed in golden fur, squats majestically at the gate of the city at dusk to enjoy the tribute. They are everywhere, have no fixed place, come and go without a trace, and are miraculous.
When people from all over the world are pouring into this lost temple of civilization, the vicissitudes of life and the mottled mythical beasts are still guarding this vast temple. Standing by the moat, the clouds are dyed golden, and the incomplete beauty of the mythical beasts makes people wonder if they are in a god. World or human world, this is the palace of the gods, this is an eternal gift from humans who believe in them! myth! Miracle! I can’t praise you enough, pay tribute to the temple, the great Angkor!
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