In the Mogao cave wander for half an hour ago, I came to the Dunhuang Academy, the time is nearly 1:00 pm, and this time discovered that the stomach has long been hungry cuckoo called out. Into the ticket office next to a fast food restaurant, fast-food end-point only discovered the young lady just for our tour guides are also here, one person dining alone, I brought lunch boxes walked past, she also recognized me, and politely told me prodded, and kindly let me sit across from her.
We dine al fresco whilst chatting about days, the name of Miss Fang Wang Haiyun, after graduating from college came to the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes do tour guides, tour guides have been experienced for several years. She told me that although the Mogao Grottoes of tourists every year hundreds of thousands, but the real love murals and sculptures in the arts is a handful, the majority of visitors are cursory, more good things to them read does not make them satisfied, so the need for heritage conservation, the Institute decided that the best cave is not open and opening up, like the murals and sculptures for the real guests can determine their votes in a separate access to these experts, the best cave. Miss Wang also told me that she personally believes that the best is the 285 cave paintings, sculptures, the best are 45 caves, with regard to experts, tickets can be purchased at the reception to the Institute. In addition she also recommended to me a most worthy album to purchase the Mogao Grottoes, is that they institute their own out, not only was excellent, beautifully printed, the price is also very appropriate.
After dinner, bid farewell to Miss Wang, I went directly to the Dunhuang Academy's reception area, a middle-aged woman greeted me and I explained to her purpose in coming, and she seemed to think that my only one person, but still for me to open a 45 caves and cave experts from 285 votes, two cave tickets are 60 yuan and 200 yuan. She asked me this morning went to clear the situation, actually Miss Wang also made a special arrangement for me to do one tour guide. When I once again came to the Mogao Caves with Miss Wang holes before the sun seems to have begun West Ramp, and Miss Wang with a work permit from the guard that lead to the 45 caves and 285 cave of the key (in fact, all of the caves were used in the same keys), led me to re-enter caves.
We first came to the cave 285. A door and saw a 2X4 square meters large canvas in front of cross-linked, making the original very dark cave mixed even more dark, Miss Wang told me that this is their Institute painter copying murals canvas, painting a few individuals have been copied more than six months, have not had time workers into these artist would have gone to education went to the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
When Miss Wang Open flashlight ready for me to explain, she has not had time to speak, I have to light all the lights and could not help feeling, cheering up, this is indeed the most beautiful I have ever seen today, murals, and also my 've ever seen by the most beautiful murals. Whether the layout of the murals, color, or character demeanor, detail, are demonstrating an amazing sense of thick, luxurious and not vulgar, colorful and not frivolous. "It's like a Gu Kaizhi's style," I suddenly mouth out. "Yes, yes Gu Kaizhi style," Miss Wang Hua Cha received my start up for me, carefully explained that this is completed in the Western Wei period, caves, murals inside, color, composition, plots have shown very perfect, from the "Fu-Xi female trouble" to "metaplasia Boy," from "defending the heavens" to "heaven gods," from "Flying" to "Zen House" from "pomp event" to "battlefield", are all depicted too vivid image, it is amazing.
That lady also told me that these colors do not look so bright, in fact, they are constantly faded, a few decades ago have seen the cave who now look back to when the said color faded a lot, so it organized the Dunhuang Academy staff murals copy. I look closely to see if they copied the works of an entire North wall mural, which is the most magnificent cave No. 285 of a mural, the characters are many beautiful clothing, despite the copying of works not yet completed, but it is not difficult to found that modern people a rough brush strokes, strokes are far far more rounded fullness of the ancients.
May be too cold inside the Cave of the reasons Miss Wang spent a little bit will not stand, she gave me a flashlight so that I see shining on their own, and she was out waiting for me. By so much courtesy, I am really a bit surprised and flattered by!
I really do not know how to describe the feelings at this moment, I know, dark around the enrichment of the Chinese nation for thousands of years history of civilization, living in such a dignified and solemn occasion, my heart has not the slightest distracting thoughts, but only pious worship. I deliberately torch extinguished, and close your eyes breathe deeply a few mouthfuls of cool air, if necessary to the soul of this historic inhaled into my internal organs and blood. . .
No time to lose time, and the camera back at the entrance was forced storage, because photography is strictly prohibited inside the cave, so all of this with the spiritual experience, I can only use their own eyes and brain to record all this, though We can also buy a number of fine album, but I firmly believe that the scene works of art is a breath of life, but what books there is no live flu. I opened the flashlight, starting from the west wall, line by line scan up, and my eyes are nervously recorded can see everything, that it is a moving collision of passion, because I look at not just a root line, a block of color, a mural, but also the sections clear, glorious history of civilization, this is a real art "psychic." . . When the torch lighting the dome above the middle of last fall, I believe at this time must be the eyes shine, is ah, once having read so many murals, fine, do a little "luxury"! However, I really was a bit "greedy", that again had finished, I could not help but to hastily swept the second time. . .
I believe in a "good thing one can not eat too much", but also worrying about their own exhaled gas, too much light exposure will affect the color murals, a person spent less than twenty minutes, they come out and join Miss Wang a. Miss Wang with a smile asked me, "enough to see it?" I do not hesitate to tell her: "She never read enough!"
Then we went to the 45 caves, not the door, Miss Wang told me that this is the Tang period, cave, which a group of colored clay sculptures of Dunhuang be called the most fine. Into the cave, Miss Wang has not had time to open flashlight, mixed with dark lighting, I have vaguely saw a positive in the seven bottles of Buddhist shrines, in the middle of the Buddha was sitting, and standing up three bottles of Buddha on each side. However, when Miss Wang open the flashlight and when the lights hit the Buddha, my eyes suddenly sluggish, and I really do not believe their eyes a little bit, because I saw a bottle of beautiful statues of Buddha! "Too beautiful, and it is so beautiful!" I was moved to sound a little changed, "I believe this is the most beautiful I've ever ever seen the sculpture, the most beautiful Buddha!"
This is the Buddha's right hand the middle of a bottle standing Buddha statues, Miss Wang told me that it was Guanyin Bodhisattva, and then she explained to me from the story of the seven bottles of Buddha, but my eyes have been inseparable from that bottle of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and ( even if she did not hit the light of Guanyin, the body) as well as listening to Miss Wang's explained. I know that in such a perfect work of art in front of any words are superfluous. Miss Wang also seems to see to understand what I mean, so long story short, they then flashlight into my hand, "you take your time, I wait for you to go out."
When the cave where I am the only one person, I would first meditation of the Buddha facing the central government made a deep Yi, mouth mutter prayers: "The Buddha ah, you and tolerance that I really like you too disciple of Buddha , and you beg the indulgence of the old lot!. " Once on shore, "hello", I put direct focus on the torch light of Guanyin, who had no idea that this look is nearly half an hour!
This is a bottle of the same life-sized painted sculpture, standing tall and straight was "S"-shaped head and a bit more, waist slightly twisted, face rounded and full, bending and breakdown, Noodles lips, neck, there are three arc-shaped items off pattern, bare upper body, shawl inclined, Ying Luo vertical chest, the body plump women, the beauty of the rich, but not high protruding breasts, but large uplift, showing substantial flexibility of the United States, far looked healthy body is full of handsome young vitality. Legends of Buddha is yin and yang, fit, and this bottle is the hardness and softness exhibited by statues of the Goddess.
I know that I is not infatuated with the beautiful appearance, but his charming and harmonious expression, it is a real leisurely Chaochen refined look, Sixiaofeixiao, like music of non-music, but combines the mundane world million species style! Looked at the harmonious look, my soul already out of the trunk, as if soul stayed in a dream, the Buddha is already in front of the Holy Spirit is not in heaven, but a living the mundane world of the most amiable and most beloved friend, and he was slightly outstretched right arm, as if looking forward to your embrace. . . I firmly believe that he is alive!
Looked at in front of loved ones, I could not help wondering feelings, what is the Tang Dynasty artists create out of this bottle of the enduring masterpieces of exquisite, can this world really has had such a lovely incarnation of Buddha? If there is no earthly incarnation of Buddha, the artist exactly how the detached state of mind that there can be shaped to make such a moving image? I am convinced that this bottle of Buddha demonstrated the beauty of human nature, has far more than the West Cupid Venus and U.S. Junior David, This is something that the Chinese Huang Huang five thousand years of civilization and self-pride!
Watching with rapt attention to my beloved, I have no idea, no consciousness. . .
So far, I have convinced to worship at the feet of the Dunhuang. . .
When I was reluctant to part with a step back to leave the cave, I no longer remember the walls of the caves have some of what it is. Lock the door when Ms. Wang told me that my favorite bottle of Guanyin, which is also a favorite Japanese writer Inoue Yasushi that year he was here, after reading it, and after returning to write an article for this bottle of Guanyin Bodhisattva statue their own dreams, so that Japanese tourists are coming here now, after the bottles should be must-see statues. "Great minds think alike must have a bar!" Surprise aside, I have replied to Miss Wang, an absent-minded manner, because my heart has remained in 45 caves.
By: keo
