500 years ago, the colorful murals, Taiyuan Duofu Temple tour guide

Going to Taiyuan Duofu Temple is really difficult. The temple is on the top of the mountain. The taxi driver is not willing to go up the mountain at all. If you drive by yourself, you will not be allowed to go up during the forest fire prevention period. In winter, the thick snow on the winding mountain road is not cleaned at all. The tires are slipping. It's thrilling. It takes several hours to climb the mountain. I'm thinking about how difficult it is to climb the mountain now. How did the ancients build such a beautiful temple on the top of the mountain? So many exquisite murals and colored sculptures, the materials are carried up the mountain, the project is too huge. 🏯About Duofu Temple It was built in the Tang Dynasty, destroyed in the Song Dynasty, and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. The murals and colored sculptures in the temple should also come from the Ming Dynasty, and only the brick tower is the original structure of the Song Dynasty. 📸The only highlight ✅Daxiong Treasure Hall: 14 colored sculptures (Three Buddhas, Four Bodhisattvas, Heavenly Kings, Power Men, Weituo, Guanyin), it is very strange that there are no Manjusri and Samantabhadra. The surrounding are Ming Dynasty murals (Buddha's story), just like comic strips. I remember when I visited many years ago, the colored sculptures were all 'locked in iron windows', maybe for theft prevention? Some mysterious operations of Shanxi 'protecting' cultural relics always make people laugh and cry... To be honest, the statues of the Three World Buddhas are quite standard, which are similar to many statues in the temples in Taiyuan, but the statues of the Bodhisattvas and the Heavenly Kings are beautiful and dignified. These lines, these charms, these blurred eyes, remind me of the 'Venus of the East' in the Huayan Temple in Datong. The 'comic strip' 500 years ago + such exquisite colored sculptures, please always believe in the aesthetics of our ancestors‼️