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Ancient Buddhist statues to go on show
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A museum displaying more than 200 Buddhist statues is set to open in north China鈥檚 Hebei Province next month.
The pieces, some of which are about 1,500 years old, will take pride of place at the new venue in Linzhang County, said museum executive Liu Haitao.
They will be part of a collection of about 3,000 relics that were unearthed in Linzhang in 2012, on the site of the 2,500-year-old city of Yecheng, he said.
Made of white marble and blue stone, most of the statues date back to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi (AD 534-577) of the Northern Dynasties (AD 386-581). The discovery was rare both in terms of the number of items found and their quality.
Yecheng was built in the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC) and served as China鈥檚 political center during the Three Kingdoms period (AD 220-280) and Northern dynasties.
Buddhism was popular during the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties.
During Northern Qi, there were about 30,000 temples and 2 million monks and nuns in China, while Yecheng had 4,000 temples and nearly 80,000 monks and nuns.
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