6:40 the morning of October 22, car to Dunhuang station, a Haoyue still hanging in mid-air, to accompany us Night a Traveler. Miss Wang has been an early tourist guides waiting at the station to meet us. Here, a great temperature difference between day and night, from the train down clearly felt that cold pressing, and the rise of a hope and a sky full of l'etoile, which has been rarely seen in Shanghai. Tour guide said that, when the temperature probably around -1 ℃. There are 130km from the train station to the city away. Due to poor road conditions need to 2 hours to reach. Driving a car in the Gobi, dimly seen, there are plants. 8:00, the day of release light, then you can see, the Gobi is a long a lot of shrubs. Tour guide said that those who called the camel thorn short of the green, slightly higher, slightly red and yellow are here Hongliu. Dunhuang Railway Station was originally called liuyuan station, you have to name here. Dunhuang station, built in 1958, is primarily used for cargo, only in recent years, more and more well-developed tourism industry, it mainly to move passengers. In 1982, the Dunhuang has also built the airport from the city 13km, again this year renovation and expansion, and with the opening of August 18, the original can only be a small aircraft flying short-haul airport, is now able to accommodate larger aircraft has. Unfortunately, the flight from Shanghai to Dunhuang has not yet opened.
To the hotel After breakfast, luggage put away and rest a while, we immediately went to the first one attraction - the famous Mogao Grottoes on the Silk Road. Tour guide said the Mogao Grottoes was first excavated in the more than 1,600 years ago, the Northern Wei period, until the Song dynasty, 1000 years to the completion of today's scale. A total of 492 caves, 45,000 pieces of wall paintings, statues statue over 2000. The first one is the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang by a monk wander into the vicinity of three risk foot and saw the sun light in the three risk Xiaguang towering mountains, like Foguangpuzhao the earth, then created the first hair ambition to open a cave. Since then, all of the caves by local and overseas celebrities gentry and business travel in the past donor drilled. Successive government has never invested.
Listening tour of the introduction, unknowingly came to this city 25km away from the Dunhuang relics. Followed by access to instructors visited the Mogao Cave 10. Jiuse Lu saw the well-known story of playing the guitar from the murals, there are many widespread Buddhist stories. Here's cave excavated due to a different era, are the obvious characteristics of the times. The Northern Wei, Western Wei period, murals and statues of people with obvious facial features Western Regions. At that time, Buddhism spread very widely in the Western Regions, which are the two northern dynasties were established Xianbei, and therefore with a clear style of the Western Regions. It appears that during the Sui and Tang Buddhist plump kind, with a clear style of the Central Plains. Also available from murals and statues in the exchanges between China and saw that grand occasion. Tang, as Nirvana Buddha excavated in the Wofo side with his 72 disciples. 72 different expressions, but also from the facial features to see, not only the Central Plains of Chinese, as well as around the world, different races, different nationalities disciples. From here you can see, when the exchanges between China and the breadth of Tang dynasty. Song of the murals and statues a bit stiff and serious. This may be related with the then prevailing jurisprudence. The Qing Dynasty had carried out a major overhaul Mogao Grottoes. Because the auspices of the overhaul was a Taoist priest, therefore, in the patched areas with a clear color Taoism, and even the Taishang Senior Sakyamuni, as before, like on the phenomenon.
The afternoon we went to Mingsha of Crescent Moon Spring tour. Here away from the Dunhuang city 6km. Mingsha is a north and south between two mountains and connect the Western Hills consisting of a pocket-shaped sand, the wind blowing from the east can only come in the sand blowing run uphill. Therefore, the Crescent Moon Spring and although surrounded on three sides and they will desert the millennium is not flooded. Crescent Moon Spring groundwater supplies by running water, and therefore will not be rancid, is the nature of a given Dunhuang unique scenery. The sand-boarding here Mingsha is a unique tourism project. We all climbed Sharper sliding down. Team leader was also torn foot ladder, which is the second time this trip to pay the blood price. Although looking at Sharper is not high, but I do get up, we usually take these people are used to the office one by one breathless. Although everyone would like to slip once, they are all beyond their grasp of the. Some people get enough, then by camel to fully appreciate the vast desert. Mingsha radius of more than 1000 square km, where the sand is known as colored sand, from yellow, red, black, white, green, and every other component spun yarn. Relieved against the blue sky and clouds, it is very spectacular.
The evening, we gather together, eating the local specialties. After dinner, we went to read music and dance performances. Program is adapted according to the Mogao Grottoes murals made of. The morning to see is a static art, at night to enjoy the dynamic of art, so that we fully enjoyed the beauty of Dunhuang.
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