Well, after a few days of delay, today I started writing the travelogue of Angkor.
Angkor is very beautiful and well worth a visit, but Lao Niu also knows that just like Lao Niu's previous travelogue in Burma, Angkor's travelogue may not have many caves.
After all, there is a lot of information about Angkor travelogues on the Internet, and there are many authoritative ones.
Therefore, just like Lao Niu's "Travelogue Must Be Written and Worth Seeing", you can write a travelogue to reminisce and summarize, and in the process of searching for information and writing a travelogue, you can really complete the in-depth tour. Instead of getting in the car to sleep, getting out of the car to pee, taking pictures of scenic spots, and forgetting all about it when you get home, you don't know what you see.
Without further ado, let's start with the most beautiful attraction in Angkor, of course, is Angkor Wat, also known as the "Angkor Wat Temple" of Little Angkor.
Little Angkor is the largest temple building in Angkor and even the world, and it is the representative of Cambodia, so the design of Little Angkor even appears on the national flag of Cambodia.
Almost all introductions to Angkor Wat, in general, are the default introductions to Little Angkor. Therefore, the first stop of Lao Niu's trip to Angkor this time is to go straight to Little Angkor.
Naturally, we must first introduce the historical background of the construction of Little Angkor, just like if you go to the Terracotta Warriors, you must know that it is the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and when you visit the Forbidden City, you will know that it is the basic historical background of the imperial palace of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Little Angkor, or Angkor Wat, was built during the reign of Sury**Arman II (r. 1112-1150), whose country was based on the Hindu faith. Suryavarman II was a Brahmanical Vishnu sect (the state religion of the Khmer Empire was Shiva).
These information are easily available on the Internet, and here are a few terms explained. You will find that every king's name is followed by the word "Varman Bamo", which is not a name, but a form of honorific title, which can simply be regarded as "God King" or "King".
As for "Shiva", "Vishnu" and the "Brahma" that will appear below, anyone who knows a little about Indian culture and Hinduism knows that these are the three major gods of Hinduism. Just like the "Rama", "Hanuman", "Sita" and "Ten Demons" that will appear below, they refer to the protagonists in the ancient Indian epic "Ramayana". "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata" are two very important epics in ancient Indian culture, and it is very important to understand a little bit of these epics and the legends of the three major gods of Hinduism to have a deep understanding of Angkor Wat and feel the historical and cultural heritage behind the beautiful scenery of Angkor.
For example, you must know that although Brahma, the three major gods of the Hindu Brahmanical sect, is the god of creation, but his status is not high, after all, the world has been created by Brahma, so he can naturally unload the mill and kill the donkey and ignore it.
Hinduism worships Shiva very much because Shiva is the god of destruction. Most of the Angkor Dynasty worshipped Shiva. The builders of this Angkor Wat worshipped Vishnu, the opposite of Shiva, who was the god of protection.
It stands to reason that people should prefer the god of protection to the god of destruction, however, demons are often more terrifying than angels, therefore, more people bow down to Shiva, and even extend the fertility worship of Shiva's *** Linga, while often ignoring Vishnu and Brahma, which are some basic elements in Hinduism, which can be used as some essential basic knowledge for travel in Southeast Asia and India, and understanding these helps to understand the sculptures, murals and temple buildings of those places of interest.
King Suryavarman II, who built Angkor Wat, was a Hindu, but he worshipped Vishnu instead of Shiva, who had been worshipped before. Believing that he was the reincarnation of Vishnu, Suryavarman II built this great temple to worship Vishnu, that is, for future generations to worship Suryavarman II himself.
Angkor Wat was built during the reign of Suryavarman II for more than 30 years, which should be basically completed, although there are some finishing touches and repairs that lasted for a long time in later generations, but it was mainly built during the reign of Suryavarman II himself.