Why Notepad headed to Dunhuang, are heard so much about the desert flowers, Jiuyang its artistic treasures. The feeling of non-words to the table. Non-its magnificence, non-for its many murals painted sculptures, but for the feelings of the kind of engraved in mind, the kind of correspondence.
Dunhuang is a small city, old houses, streets, there are distant mountains, are yellow, and a unique color of the Northwest. On that day, we have an early start, and off-road vehicle out of our city, speeding on the highway is not very wide. Looking around us, is that Sha Haisha monastery is surrounded by mountains, can not see a trace of green. People say you can see in a place like maritime mirage, and we wait around, I did not see anything. Greeted addition to roadside utility poles, and occasionally there are 12 withered. This place water-tree, birds also do not see, simply can not see living things. Dunhuang is also prosper, prosperity of the places where it can be seen that where it? Was thinking, the one green mapping, we have to enter a car with trees planted on both sides of the road. Instant, felt like a well-winter, heading for the big spring, a long time saw a desert oasis, our spiritual stir briskly Chixiang more cars in front. We can see from the road near the sand cliff walls there are many holes, the driver is the chef said it was air-raid shelter (called the Institute to the cave to work on the air-raid shelter etc.), that is in front of Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang.
Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang art treasure house that I have long been dreaming of a place, this had the honor to come here, and can stay here a few days, mind is indeed grateful to God. Wanted to come to the northwest desert, not always able to land. Now the hole every day to visit, in particular, the Dunhuang Research Institute Duan Wenjie, Mr. and Ms. Fan Jinshi, vice president, director of the Institute and the protection of Mr. Li Zuixiong, give us special treatment, we looked at several franchise super洞. Mr. Lee is also accompanied us on the holes a day to visit. I would like to have compensation, and feel the heaven-sent me a lot. I remember one day, from the air-raid shelter on the return, I wrote in Notepad the following words: reading the hole evil, but of human million. At that time was not specifically written to feelings for a bell, but pens to write the letter, the visit, the cave's feelings are reflected in the mind Bale. Indeed, these art treasures to me not only the aesthetic experience of art is a real untold emotional shock, even an instant, also feel is a kind of purification, has followed the spirit away, which is perhaps the art of Can we shock the lofty bar.
Dunhuang Mogao Caves excavated at the eastern foot of gravel Duanbi Mingsha, the north-south length of 1600 meters, is about more than 50 meters high cliffs. Tang monument records, which began in 366 AD excavated caves, mostly concentrated in the 1,000 meters in the south of the rock surface (the north of the cave paintings only 4), the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty paintings and sculptures of the caves there are 492.
Dunhuang Mogao caves are divided into different grades: super, Class A and B. B are generally open hole. We came Institute, the old president for us, we introduced the Institute for the history, development and planning. Dean is a veteran expert of Dunhuang studies, he came to Dunhuang in 1942 to study the Mogao Grottoes murals, painted sculptures, scriptures, and change the text, can be said to have devoted his life energy. Listened to presentations, a kind of admiration in my heart wells up. Experts such as segment president for arts and culture in our nation do not mind that fame and fortune, regardless of the difficult conditions, in the northwest desert thousand is a few decades, this is what dedication.
We visited nearly 40 representative of the cave and enjoy the art of different times, is like reading an ancient history. Here sculpture God sector Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and kings, but also the mortal human people, different characters, images vary, but one a life-like, so we are marveling at the ancient art of accomplished artists. We have to look over history, we in the appreciation of the arts, leaving us is the great ancient people's creative arts, for our great motherland, brilliant art, culture, respect, admiration.
In the Dunhuang few days, we lived in the city flying hotel, a very quiet place in the city. Every morning, we are traveling to 25 kilometers away from the city to visit the Mogao Grottoes noon, back to hotel dinner and rest, to the air-raid shelter on the tour. Every day we have to drink a lot of water, breakfast and milk. On one occasion, think of how we've never been to the bathroom, and later realize that the place a very high temperatures and very dry, the intake of water soon evaporated. This is also a place for the amazing.
In the historical city of Dunhuang in the vicinity, there are two famous ya Doll's natural landscape is Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Moon Spring. Visited the Mogao Grottoes, the then these two parts of a tour, it seems to better understand, in this sacred place has such a wonderful natural good fortune. Mingsha are two different dune movement, on the intersection of two sand hills at the foot of the mountains, there is a crescent-like shape of Wang drenched with water. According to natural common sense, there is water in the desert is already rare, can coexist with them in the sand hill, and the calendar is not prolonged dry hundreds of thousands of years, even more surprising.
What is Mingsha Mountain, when people from the top of the hill on the decline, such as when a large number, they will hear the ringing. Especially in the sunset at dusk is said, can hear the voice of Bing Ge staggered, like living in the ancient battlefield in ancient times vaguely to see the two sides intersect troops and horses, swords and guns in the battle scenes simultaneously. This Mingsha, thousands of years, stand with this, the tourism industry unfolded, the visitors increasing, sand-boarding as a tourism project. Sand Hill, a high degree of sand-boarding down because of the people. The local administration to prevent the sand hills, continues to decline, have been planting trees in its vicinity, a mountain to Combat Desertification and a high degree of decline in two anti-sand sliding into Crescent Moon will drown it. But the result was the opposite, the planting of trees changed the original direction of the wind, but also reduces the wind, destroyed the original sand hills and spring water is conducive to the natural law of mutual survival. This rule is a strong wind from time to time between the two sand hills, up Jansa, this constant force made up of sand has piled up, and will not slide down to the springs. Later, it was recognized that this, which have been restitution. The great forces of nature can be seen, especially at this sacred place, it is this magical force of nature, forming a sand mountains and spring water is close to get along with EON retained spectacle.
Wanted to climb the peak due to hot weather, but also back the camera and so on, climbed to the Mid-levels, felt extremely weak. Standing halfway up the mountain to the west looked, the sun is down to the Western Hills, Crescent Moon Spring and the water reflects the sun's waves. A sun and moon cross-hui picture. I took a few pictures, named for the sun and the moon with the Hui.
Last published in the paper containing the local administration to protect the Mingsha, closed one of them, a temporary ban visitors to tread climb sand-boarding, after a year of the protective seal off, this high degree of sand hills, rising to settle meters. Such a treatment, Crescent Moon Spring and will never be overwhelmed by the Sand Hills.

Author: F99liu