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Cave 10 is the Pilu Buddha Cave, which was dug in 471-494 AD. Animals. On the outside, Asura sits cross-legged with one leg, with multiple heads and multiple arms, holding the sun and the moon in his hands. Three room-style niches are carved on the east and west walls, and the Buddha statues in the niches have kind faces and Bodhisattvas with a peaceful expression. Under the Yanfu tree, half-legged Sitting thinking Bodhisattva, with one hand resting on his heart, immersed in the Four Noble Truths. Vajra warriors on the east and west sides of the cave door, wearing bird feather crowns, holding a Vajra pestle, with a kind expression. The main statue of the back room is Maitreya Bodhisattva, and there is a Bodhisattva on the east and west walls. The south wall is a niche that expresses the karmic story of Sakyamuni's good teaching and subjugation of heretics." The ornamental patterns of the door lintel, animal and plant decorative patterns and pattern decorations are all over the caves in Yungang, occupying almost one-seventh of the space. Among them, green dragons, white tigers, red birds, and basalts are mostly decorated, especially in the caves of the second phase. These four are regarded as the four gods in the sky by the Han people, and they are called "four spirits", or four gods. It is said that they are scattered in the east, west, south, and north of the sky, and they play the role of setting the four directions and symbolizing auspiciousness. Animal and plant patterns occupy a very important position in the decorative art of Yungang Grottoes. The fringe carvings on the lintels of Caves 10 to 12, on the multi-sided continuous and symmetrical honeysuckle relief belt, highlight the high relief of red bird, white deer, lotus and Huasheng boy, etc. This decorative art can be said to be a national style. of new creations. From the perspective of decorative themes, the most important ones are the lotus pattern and the pattern of twining plants, which have a great influence on the decorative patterns of later generations in China. The pattern of lotus twining plants is a decoration that rose in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. There are often tree decorations in Yungang caves in the middle period. That is because Sakyamuni became enlightened under the bodhi tree, so some Buddhas have engraved bodhi trees like shades and covers on their heads.
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