The world-famous Longmen Grottoes are located 12km south of Luoyang. Here two mountains, , East Hill (Mt. Xiangshan) and West Hill (Mt. Longmen), confront each other with the Yi River traversing northward between them, just like a pair of Chinese gate towers. So during the Zhou and Qin dynasties, it was called “Yi Que” (Gate [...]
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