2009-01-01

Mogao Grottoes - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Commonly known as the Mogao Grottoes: The Thousand-Buddha Grottoes, Dunhuang City of Gansu Province is located in the southeast city of 2 5 km Mingsha Shan Dong Lu. Qian Qin, founded in 2002 yuan (366 AD), until order to preserve Northern Liang, Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Western Xia, Yuan Dynasty, which lasted more than a thousand years of various types of cave 735, There are colorful murals and the 492 caves. Mural 45,000 square meters, more than 2,400 colorful body, the Tang and Song timbers canopies Cave 5. In 1900, in Cangjing Dong (now the No. 1 7 Cave), was found by the Western Jin Dynasty to Song Dynasty, Shi, son of the various instruments to collect paintings and more than 5 pieces. Mogao Grottoes is when The size of the world's most ambitious, most rich, most exquisite art, to preserve the integrity of the Buddhist temple caves.

Chinese grotto art from India, India's traditional stone grotto statues are based mainly as a result of the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang and does not rock carvings, the statues in clay-based murals. Cave of the entire round for the former general And then gradually reduce the high plastic, plastic film, plastic wall, the wall paintings in the background while the last, plastic, painting the two arts together. Tang Mogao Caves have more than 1,000 holes, the 492 existing caves Dong, Wei-dong Cave 32, 110 Cave-Sui and Tang Cave 247 holes, 36 holes Cave of the Five Dynasties, Song Dong Cave 45, Cave 8 million dong 45,000 square meters murals, colorful statue of 2415, down five points grotto, now numbered "17" had been found in caves from the 4th century to the 14th century's precious cultural relics 56,000, the result of the formation of Dunhuang Studies, There is also a heritage of Dunhuang Research Institute.


Mogao Grottoes is Keep the largest "treasure house of art in the world", in December 1987 by UNESCO as world cultural heritage. Mogao Grottoes Art features the performance of the construction, the statue and mural on an organic combination of all three. Cave-formed into meditation cave, the cave temple, Tamiao Cave, the cave roof dome, which has affected a variety of shapes, such as Cave Colorful plastic sub-round, floating plastic, plastic film, plastic industry, and so good; category Zunxiang mural paintings, painted by the change, story, historical Buddhist paintings, architectural drawing, landscape painting, drawing support, and animal paintings, decorative painting and other content, Sixteen system reflects the country, Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Western Xia, Yuan, and so on more than Dynasties and the East-West cultural exchanges in all aspects of human culture, rare treasures.




  Cave's largest higher than 40 meters, 30 meters square. Not the least high-Ying Chi. Are colorful clay statues, as a single and Images. Buddhist center to the people, on both sides of the disciples Shi Li, Buddha, King, Who, at least 3 to as many as 11. The largest 33 meters, 10 centimeters smaller. More exaggerated to the performance of the character color, the air is. Buddhist mural content, Buddhist relics, the change in the myth of a dependent person, such as decorative motifs and themes.

  The most ancient map of the "Mount map" more than 40 square . From the flower leaf, God, Buddha, by the time the performance of the local activities of the historical figures, "Zhang Chao Yee and his wife travel plans", Fine Composition, lifelike. Cave in the resplendent, brilliant dazzling. If the screen by 2 meters high rank, can constitute up to 25 kilometers of galleries, existing in China's largest and most abundant caves Treasure-house operation.

Since the Mogao Grottoes in 1900 Cangjing Dong found more than 50,000 volumes of religious and secular instruments, the Dunhuang Art shocked the whole world, "Dunhuang" has become an important school of learning in the world, but because of the Mogao Grottoes was chaired by Wang Daoshi ignorance Ignorance, almost all of these treasures stolen abroad. Mogao Grottoes in the opposite danger three Yamashita, donated by Japan, by the construction of the Dunhuang Academy in Dunhuang art exhibition center, the imitation of the original large part of the cave, so that visitors viewing the contents of the Mogao Grottoes in more colorful.

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