World Art Treasures - Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes-Photo Album-ccnpic


	Dunhuang in Gansu Province is located in the most western end of Hexi Corridor. Abdomen, located in China, Gansu Province, covering an area of 455,000 square km. Lanzhou, capital of China's geographic center is located, from Maryland to the east of China's first and most basically the same as the distance sodu. The province was "dumb-ling" shape. 1655 kilometers from east to west, north and south is only the narrowest 25 kilometers. 1 territory of more than 1000 km long Hexi Corridor has long been China's east-west traffic to the Guardian online. On the ancient Silk Road in Gansu is an essential hub of the throat, is today the development of northwest China based on the bond and also the "New Silk Road - the Eurasian Continental Bridge" section of the key. Dunhuang area of about 31,200 square km, the area cultivated area of 230,000 hectares, mainly wheat, corn, cotton, fruits and vegetables. Dunhuang City in Gansu Province鸣沙山东麓the precipice, the long path along the cliff caves large and small twists and turns will be connected, to make the walls of caves with Buddhist murals and the colorful, dignified and solemn shadow of the Buddha, Smart wave Flying ... ... of the solemn mystery, it is interest-screen voice convergence. Here, is the world's largest treasure house of Buddhist art - the Mogao Caves. Including the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu, Western Thousand-Buddha Cave and Yulin Cave. Dunhuang, Gansu Province which is located 25 kilometers southeast of the Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the Thousand-Buddha Cave, is the representative of the Dunhuang Grottoes. Mogao Grottoes东麓cut in the cliff on鸣沙山. More than 1 thousand six hundred meters long north-south, with five levels, high and low错落有致, row upon row, such as honeycomb-shaped dovecote, spectacular anomaly. It is China's largest existing, as the richest treasure trove of classical culture and the arts, but also world-renowned center of Buddhist art. In December 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The art of the Mogao Caves in the performance characteristics of the main buildings, statues and murals on the organic integration of the three. Cave formed into Zen-shaped cave temple Cave, Cave塔庙, dome top Cave, which has affected a variety of shapes, such as Cave; cyclotomic colorful plastic, floating plastic, film plastic, plastic industry, such as good;尊像category mural painting, by the change painting, story paintings, Buddhist historical paintings, architectural paintings, landscape paintings, dependent painting, animal painting, painting and other decorative elements, the system reflects the 16 States, the Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Western Xia, Yuan and more than 10 dynasties such as the East-West cultural exchange in all its aspects, as a rare cultural treasures of mankind. Mogao Grottoes is a veritable treasure trove of artifacts.藏经洞was unearthed in China by volume, instruments, embroidery, portraits and so on more than 50,000 pieces of high artistic value, but because at that time presided over the Mogao Grottoes of王道士ignorance, almost all of these stolen treasures abroad . Mogao Grottoes is now the foot of the mountain opposite Sanweishan by the Dunhuang Academy Dunhuang Art display the construction of a center copying large part of the original cave, so that visitors viewing the content in the Mogao Grottoes more colorful. Mogao Grottoes of the colorful characters are mostly Buddhist Nirvana and its cultivation of the statues deeds. Because of the Mogao Grottoes of loose rock, can not be carved, the craftsmen use clay. Tang ago in other parts of the clay rarely preserved, so a large number of colorful Mogao more valuable rare. There is also the myth of national tradition and a wide range of decorative themes design. From the wall, it can be seen from all walks of life of all ethnic groups of all kinds of social activities, such as imperial travel, hunting and fishing farming, iron wine, weddings and marriage, business contacts, messenger intersection, playing music, singing and dancing show ... ... the world 100 Vientiane, a wide range. Mogao Grottoes as a treasure house of art, the art of different times in practice together into a gorgeous landscape here. Dunhuang Art in the Tang Dynasty Buddhist art of China represents the most rotten era Can, foreign art and China's national art perfect harmony unprecedented variety of Dunhuang art in the Tang Dynasty. Up to the immense grandeur of the huge statue of Buddha 10 meters; smart sophisticated dozen centimeters only a small Buddha; great scenes, a huge figure by the change is heavy; the image of a lively, distinctive character without all the single figure is impressive. On behalf of our country from four decades since the establishment of the Mogao Grottoes and the protection of academic research institutions; the sixties to the grotto for a comprehensive reinforcement; the beginning of the eighties, the Mogao Grottoes of modern science has entered a period of protection. [Back]