Editing Luoyang (section)

==Culture==
;Sites
[[File:Guanlin Templ.JPG|thumb|228x228px|right|Guanlin Temple in May 2007]]
[[File:Drum tower in Luoyang old city.jpg|thumb|Drum tower in the old city]]
The [[Longmen Grottoes]] south of the city were listed on the [[UNESCO]] list of [[World Heritage Sites]] in November 2000. Guanlin{{mdash}}a series of temples built in honor of [[Guan Yu]], a hero of the [[Three Kingdoms period]]{{mdash}}is nearby. The [[White Horse Temple]] is located {{convert|12|km|mi|sp=us|abbr=on|sigfig=2}} east of the modern town.

The [[Luoyang Museum]] (established 1958) features ancient relics dating back to the [[Xia dynasty|Xia]], [[Shang dynasty|Shang]], and [[Zhou dynasty|Zhou]] [[list of Chinese dynasties|dynasties]]. The total number of exhibits on display is 1,700.<ref>''China Culture''. "[http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_museum/2003-09/24/content_29944.htm Luoyang Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215165628/http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_museum/2003-09/24/content_29944.htm |date=2016-02-15 }}".</ref> China's only tomb museum, the [[Luoyang Ancient Tombs Museum]], opened to the public in 1987 and is situated north of the modern town.

The [[Gaocheng Astronomical Observatory]] (also known as the Dengfeng Observatory or the Tower of Chou Kong) stands {{convert|80|km|mi|sp=us|abbr=on|sigfig=2}} south-east of Luoyang. It was constructed in 1276 during the [[Yuan dynasty]] by [[Guo Shoujing]] as a giant [[gnomon]] for "the measurement of the sun's shadow". Prior to the [[Jesuit China Missions]], it was used for establishing the [[summer solstice|summer]] and [[winter solstice]]s in traditional [[Chinese astronomy]].<ref>[[Needham, Joseph]]. ''[[Science and Civilisation in China]]''.</ref>

Luoyang is the foundation of Confucianism, the birth of Taoism, the first transmission of Buddhism, the formation of metaphysics, and the origin of neo-Confucianism. All kinds of cultural thoughts are integrated and symbiosis here, and the [[compass]], [[Papermaking|paper making]] and [[printing]] among the [[Four Great Inventions|four great inventions]] of ancient China were born here. Luoyang is also the cultural root and ancestral lineage of the global Chinese, more than 100 million Hakka ancestral home in the world, 70% of China's clan name originated here, Heluo culture represented by "Hetu Luoshu" is the ancestral source of Chinese civilization.<ref>{{Cite web |title=基本概况 |url=https://www.ly.gov.cn/html/1/m/2/49/50/index.html |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.ly.gov.cn |archive-date=2023-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030063641/https://www.ly.gov.cn/html/1/m/2/49/50/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

;Cuisine
[[Water Banquet]], which is one of the famous banquets passed on for generations in the history of Chinese cuisine, consists of 8 cold and 16 warm dishes all cooked in various broths, gravies, or juices. The water here has two meanings: one is that all the hot dishes have soup-tang soup water; the other is that each dish is served after another smoothly just like flowing water. It comprises a wide selection of ingredients, simple and versatile, diverse tastes, sour, spicy, sweet and salty, comfortable and delicious.

;Botany
Luoyang is also celebrated for the cultivation of [[Paeonia suffruticosa|peonies]], its city flower. Since 1983, each mid-April the city hosts the Peony Culture Festival of Luoyang. More than 19 million tourists visited Luoyang during the 2014 festival.<ref>{{Cite web |title=河南频道_凤凰网 |url=http://hn.ifeng.com/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=hn.ifeng.com |archive-date=2024-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710123535/http://hn.ifeng.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

;Music
"Spring in Luoyang" ({{lang-zh|labels=no|s={{nowrap|{{linktext|lang=zh-Hans|洛阳|春}}}} |p=Luòyáng Chūn}}), an ancient Chinese composition, became popular in [[Korea]] during the [[Goryeo|Goryeo dynasty]] (918–1392) and is still performed in its ''[[dangak]]'' (Koreanized) version ''Nakyangchun'' ({{nowrap|{{Korean|labels=no|낙양춘}}}}). [[Lou Harrison]], an American composer, has also created an arrangement of the work.

;Dialect
{{main|Luoyang dialect}}
Residents of Luoyang typically speak a dialect of [[Zhongyuan Mandarin]].{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} Although Luoyang's dialect was a [[prestige dialect]] of [[dialects of Chinese|spoken Chinese]] from the [[Warring States period]] of the [[Eastern Zhou dynasty|Zhou]] until the [[Ming dynasty]], it differs from the [[Beijing dialect|Beijing form]] of [[Mandarin dialects|Mandarin]] which became the basis of the [[Standard Chinese|standard modern dialect]].

;Outer space
Asteroid&nbsp;(239200)&nbsp;2006&nbsp;MD13 is named after Luoyang.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}