Chapter 1070 Mogao Grottoes

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"Brother Zhuang, do you want me to teach him a lesson?"

Peng Fei felt that the trip was relatively flat. After seeing Zhongchuan, he couldn't help but feel a little itchy, especially when he saw a translator with a nod and bow next to Zhongchuan, which made Comrade Peng Fei extremely unhappy. He didn't like these foreigners who took money to run Chinese clothes.

"Forget it, don't make trouble, you play for a day today, and you will start working tomorrow..."

Zhuang Rui waved his hand to stop Peng Fei. Others admired Chinese culture. Where to travel is the freedom of others, but Zhongchuan is really predestined with himself. From Xi'an to Dunhuang, he has met three times in a row.

"Look, that guy doesn't look like a good thing. Maybe he came from private cultural relics in China..." Peng Fei muttered. After parking the car, he pushed the door and walked down.

Although Dunhuang is located in a remote area, as a world-famous tourist resort, Mogao Grottoes is full of people, full of tour groups with small flags and sun hats. If it hadn't been for Peng Fei's sharp eyes, he really couldn't see Zhongchuan, but when he got off the bus, Zhongchuan would have been

There are four giant grottoes featuring Buddhist culture in China, namely Dunhuang-Monggao Grottoes, Datong-Yungang Grottoes, Luoyang-Longmen Grottoes, Tianshui-Maijishan Grottoes. Among them, Longmen Grottoes and Mogao Grottoes are the most famous, and Mo One of them.

Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes was built in 366 AD until the 1,500 years of the Qing Dynasty. On the wall of Mingsha Mountain, which is long in Sanhuali, more than 480 caves have been built in dense layers, with five floors arranged up and down, with staggered heights and scales. It is shaped like a hive pigeon Watching, it looks extremely spectacular.

All the grottoes are full of colorful Buddha statues and murals based on Buddhist stories. There are more than 2,000 colorful Buddha statues, and the largest one is 33 meters high. The murals are superb and the number is amazing. If one side is connected, it can be arranged into a gallery of more than 50 miles long.

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"Zhuang Rui, put all the cameras in the car. It is not allowed to bring cameras into the Mogao Grottoes. If you are interested in those portrait Buddhas, I can find someone to ask you for a complete Mogao Grottoes image collection later..."

Seeing a camera hanging around Zhuang Rui's neck, Dr. Ren, who came down from another car, reminded him that because the flashes of various cameras have caused great damage to cultural relics, it is forbidden to bring cameras into this scenic spot.

Professor Meng once conducted relevant research in the name of the Institute of Archaeology of Peking University, in conjunction with the Dunhuang Institute of Cultural Relics, on the potential damage of the carbon dioxide generated by breathing to murals. As an early student who followed Professor Meng, Dr. Ren did not come here for the first time, and he treated Mo Gao. There is still quite in-depth research in the cave.

With the tourist crowd, Zhuang Rui and others also stepped into the interior of Mogao Grottoes. They entered the southern district of Mogao Grottoes. There are a total of 487 caves here, with murals or statues at dawn. After entering the first cave, Zhuang Rui was attracted by the beautiful stone carvings on the rock wall and

Looking around the cave and the top of the cave, there are Buddha statues, tricks and fairies everywhere. Almost every space in the grotto has a portrait. After entering the grotto, Zhuang Rui seems to feel like entering the ancient gallery, and there is a strong artistic atmosphere everywhere.

Unlike visiting those places of interest, all the portraits and stone Buddha statues here exude a kind of artistic beauty, with a variety of exquisite decorative patterns, which seem to lead people into a grand and spectacular art corridor. Every detail shows the exquisite craftsmanship and art of the ancestors. Cultivation.

"Zhuang Rui, this is Feitian. The Feitian advertisement we saw on CCTV is based on this..." In a grotto more than 30 meters high, Dr. Ren saw Zhuang Rui looking up at the dome and introduced it to him.

Feitian is a god who serves the Buddha and the emperor Shitian. He can sing and dance well. On the walls of this grotto, there are flying patterns carved everywhere, a little in the boundless vast universe. Some hold lotus buds in their hands and go straight to the sky, some dive down from the air, like meteors, and some pass Some of them are swept by the wind and are leisurely.

The ancient painters presented a beautiful and ethereal world of imagination to people with the unique winding long line and the harmonious interest. The gorgeous colors and flying lines presented people with a kind of publicity power, so that Zhuang Rui had a kind of ** of riding wildly in the desert desert.

"The information in film and television is not as good as what you can see with your own eyes..."

Zhuang Rui withdrew his eyes looking at the dome. Just now, he felt the grotto with aura. The exquisite strokes, the beautiful fairies flowed with color one by one, and the belts fluttered. He seemed to turn around in the sense of reiki, which made Zhuang Rui intoxicated, and his heart was shocked, as if his soul Then he trembled.

Peng Fei, who couldn't find any artistic cells all over his body, was also attracted by these exquisite portraits and said in a daze, "Brother Zhuang, why do I look at these murals as if I'm alive?"

"Well, Peng Fei, this means that you have a Buddha's fate. Just leave a monk and become a monk. As the saying goes, put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha..."

Feeling the unique grotto aura, Zhuang Rui was in a good mood and joked with Peng Fei with a smile, but this is also half true and half false. In modern society, people like Peng Fei can already be regarded as killing gods. Being in this Buddhist place, maybe he can really resolve some of the tyranny in his body.

"Hey hey, do they accept the wine and meat monks?" Peng Fei laughed when he heard the words. He was not afraid of heaven and earth. Even in this solemn place of the Buddha statue, it could only make him lose his mind a little.

"You, don't talk nonsense in this place..."

Zhuang Rui shook his head, walked out of the grotto and continued to tour. This time, he put his mind on the Buddha carvings of different shapes in the grotto.

Because the Sui and Tang Dynasties were the heyday of the development of Mogao Grottoes, the Buddha statues in the Mogao Grottoes were also deeply influenced by the Buddhist culture of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Most of the statues were round, the shapes of the statues were thick and plump, the human objects were strong

Color sculpture is the main body of the Buddha carving art of Mogao Grottoes. There are Buddha statues, Bodhisattva statues, disciple statues, as well as various colored statues of Tianwang, King Kong and Lishi. The forms are rich and colorful. Round plastic, floating plastic, shadow plastic and About 2 centimeters, with rich themes and superb craftsmanship, it can be called a Buddhist color sculpture museum.

When he walked to the No. 16 grotto, Dr. Ren stopped and pointed to it and said, "Zhuang Rui, this is the Tibetan scripture hole..."

"Are those precious scriptures hidden in this?"

Zhuang Rui used the flashlight he carried with his hand to shine into it. On the indoor wall of the square cave, which is only 2.6 meters long and 3 meters high, there are images of bodhi trees, bhikshuni and so on. There is a Zen bed-style low altar, which shapes the sitting figure of a senior monk Hong. As for the script

More than a century ago, when the Taoist priest inadvertently opened up this Tibetan sutra, there were more than 50,000 pieces of documents and paper paintings, silk paintings, embroidery and other cultural relics from the 4th century to the 11th century (i.e. the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Northern Song Dynasty), but now there are almost one in China

Later archaeologists inferred that the Tibetan sutra caves should have been closed in the 11th century A.D., when the monks of Mogao Grottoes were preparing to escape in order to avoid the Xixia army. Most of the unearthed documents were written, and a small number of them were engraved, which were especially precious. In Many of the texts, such as dui wen, and Guizi, have been circulated so far, and many of them have been isolated and unique.

As for Wang Taoist priest, the discoverer of the Tibetan scripture cave, although later generations have different evaluations of him, Zhuang Rui has always believed that he is the sinner of the loss of this civilization. His so-called use of selling silver to repair the Mogao Grottoes can not atone for his loss of these precious cultural relics.

Perhaps many friends will say that the Taoist priest is dedicated to the public, and the silver sold to foreigners is not used for private pleasure, but for a poor life. Some people will say that if the Taoist priest hadn't sold those things, maybe these objects would have been destroyed by the subsequent war.

But do these friends know that Mogao Grottoes has been little known since the Yuan Dynasty. The original appearance has been basically preserved for hundreds of years, and no one knows that there are precious and rare Buddhist scriptures there.

With the actions of the Qing Dynasty and the National Government at that time, it was impossible to take into account the Mogao Grottoes at all. That is to say, if the Taoist priest had not opened the Tibetan sutra cave, these precious cultural relics would not be discovered until today, and these precious cultural relics belonging to China would also be preserved intact.

Moreover, after the government paid attention to it at that time, Wang Taoist priest still hid most of the precious sutra cultural relics of the final value. For only 700 silver dollars, he sold 24 boxes of 5 boxes of art and 570 Dunhuang documents to the British archaeologist Stein.

Later, the French archaeologist Bersh obtained more than 10,000 Dunhuang documents for 600 taels of silver, and the last few precious cultural relics were also sold by the Taoist priest to Japanese explorers Koichiro Yoshikawa and Ruichao Tachibana.

As a result, more than 50,000 books found in 1900 were finally only 8,757 collected in the current National Library of China, which is less than half of the British Museum. Therefore, in Zhuang Rui's heart, Wang Taoist priest is the culprit of the loss of Dunhuang culture. RO