Visitors walking through one of the Longyou Grottoes, providing essential human scale reference for the colossal carved chambers. Individual caverns reach
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Visitors walking through one of the Longyou Grottoes, providing essential human scale reference for the colossal carved chambers. Individual caverns reach heights of 30 meters and floor areas of over 1,000 square meters, all excavated by hand from solid siltstone bedrock without any known mechanical assistance.
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