Introduction to the history of Angkor Wat in Cambodia When did the construction of Angkor Wat begin?

1, Angkor Wat, also known as Angkor Wat Temple, is located in Cambodia. It is known as the national treasure of Cambodia, the largest temple building in the world and the earliest Khmer building in the world. The original name of Angkor Wat is VrahVishnulok, which means "Temple of Vishnu", and the ancient Buddhist books in China call it "Sangxiang Buddha Hall". Suriye Palma II (reign time113-1150) was dedicated to Vishnu, and it took more than 30 years to build. Angkor Wat is the most essential part of Angkor Wat and the representative of early architectural style in Cambodia.

1992 UNESCO listed Angkor as a world cultural heritage. Since then, Angkor Wat, as the top priority of Angkor Wat, has become a beautiful tourist card in Cambodia.

2. The history of Angkor Dynasty began in the 9th century. Ba Maw II, the first king, led the country to break away from Java and restore Cambodian independence. In 802 AD, he became king on his own, and his capital was Mount Cullen. Through the efforts of several generations of kings, by the beginning of 12 century, the territory of Angkor Dynasty had expanded to most of Thailand today, and each generation of kings built their own national temples. /kloc-At the beginning of the 20th century, Troni Indravarman I, uncle of Suriye Pomona II, won the throne of Zhenla, and the new king moved the capital to Angkor. Because Suriye Pomo II gained the throne by unorthodox methods, in order to consolidate his prestige, he had to build a temple larger than more than 700 temples built by previous kings as a national temple and his own ancestral temple. Dibharata, a brahmin priest who crowned the king, designed this ancestral temple for the king and dedicated it to Vishnu, and named it "Vishnu Temple". Construction time is as long as 30 years. Therefore, Angkor Wat is by no means a western-style church or an oriental temple for a large group of believers to worship, but a grand ancestral temple dedicated to the king who became a Hindu god. Yuan Dynasty navigator Wang Dayuan visited Angkor Wat during 1330- 1339. He called Angkor Wat "Sangxiang Buddha Hall", which indicated that Angkor Wat had been changed into a Buddhist temple in the middle of14th century. Wang Dayuan also reported that Angkor Wat was "wrapped in Jin Shiqiao for more than 40 feet", which is very gorgeous and has the language of "wealth and true wax". In 143 1 year, Siam (now known as Thailand in Southeast Asia) broke Angkor Wat, the capital of Zhenla, and Zhenla moved its capital to Phnom Penh. The following year, Angkor Wat was abandoned by the Khmer people, and the forest gradually covered the uninhabited Angkor Wat. Later, some Khmer hunters went hunting in the forest and came across this magnificent temple. Some local Buddhists also built huts next to temples and worshipped in them, but most of the remains of Angkor are unknown to the world.