Luoyang is located in the center of china and considered as the most important cradle of the chinese civilization as one of the six ancient capitals the world famous attractions in luoyang are the shaolin temple longmen grottoes and white horse temple the longmen grottoes contains the largest and most impressive collection of chinese art from the late northern wei and tang dynasties 316 907 entirely devoted to the buddhist religion the white horse temple was the first buddhist temple in c