What little-known legends did Li Dinglong write about the art of treasure hunting in Dunhuang?

Li Dinglong, a native of Longxi, Gansu, is from Xincai County, Henan Province. When I was young, I studied fine arts from Liu Haisu in Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. He was an excellent student and was later praised by Liu Haisu? The second and eighth mountain people? . He is famous for his long scrolls all his life, especially Dunhuang art. He once traveled thousands of miles to Dunhuang to explore treasures and wrote a little-known legend.

Li Dinglong 1938 went north from Hong Kong and set out from Xi 'an in early winter. One, three women, 10 men form a team? Expedition to Dunhuang? Li Dinglong served as the captain and followed the route of Tang Xuanzang's westward journey to learn from the scriptures. When the team arrived at Jiayuguan, most people quit because of the bad weather. Li Dinglong's long-cherished wish is not to change. Die, I will die on the way to Dunhuang! ? He and Liu Fang, another young man living in Dunhuang, put on temporary fur coats and felt boots and set off again.

After more than a month's arduous westward journey, they successfully arrived in Dunhuang with extraordinary perseverance on the desolate wasteland outside the Great Wall. In a dark and cold cave in the Mogao grottoes, he spread grass as a bed? Home? . The next day, wrapped in a broken quilt, I began to copy murals selflessly. He painted in the cave for seven or eight hours every day. He had a high fever and almost died. He also learned to climb trees and caves and fell down many times. Due to long-term malnutrition and no haircut, Li Dinglong became disheveled, covered with lice and embarrassed, like a beggar.

So local rumors? There lived a savage in the temple? . With amazing perseverance, he persisted in copying until May of the following year, and it took him eight months to complete "Grand and Complex". A map of Elysium? Copying manuscripts and 100 single paintings, as well as countless flying, algae wells and bergamot patterns.

1August, 939, Li Dinglong went through hardships and returned to Xi 'an. Dunhuang grottoes art exhibition? The huge picture scroll of Elysium and nearly a hundred exquisite single paintings caused a sensation at that time. In Dunhuang, Li Dinglong saw a large number of broken walls with exquisite pictures cut by pelliot Warner, and the uninhabited Mogao Grottoes were seriously damaged, which made him very sad and distressed.

The purpose of his exhibition is to urge the government to take measures to protect it as soon as possible 194 1 At the beginning of the year, Li Dinglong held art exhibitions in Chengdu and Chongqing and met Zhang Daqian. It was influenced by it that Zhang Daqian also had plans to go to Dunhuang. While holding the exhibition, Li Dinglong repeatedly wrote to the Executive Yuan, the Ministry of Education and the Cultural Committee of Chongqing National Government, demanding that measures be taken to protect Dunhuang cultural relics, but there was no response. He wrote letters to Yu Youren, Chen Lifu, Zhang Daofan and other important members of the Kuomintang, but there was still no reply.

Later, he appealed to Zhang Daqian for planning * * *, and persuaded Yu Youren to go to Dunhuang for a field trip through Zhou Bomin (Yu Youren's nephew, who knows calligraphy and painting), and cooperated with Cong Meiyuan, a photographer of the Central News Agency, to sue Chongqing Ta Kung Pao. The result just came out, 1943, the national government was established? National Dunhuang Academy of Art? From 65438 to 0944, Li Dinglong went to Dunhuang again, carefully checked and numbered the first batch of copied paintings, and copied a number of new works.

1946, Li Dinglong held another exhibition of copying murals in Lanzhou. At that time, Zhu Shaoliang, the highest military officer in the northwest, Yu Youren, a veteran of the Kuomintang, Feng Yuxiang, a patriotic general, Guo Moruo and many other dignitaries happily congratulated the exhibition on its success. Shao Lizi and other dignitaries also talked about the voice of protection in the Republic of China Daily, which had a great influence. From 65438 to 0948, Li Dinglong was invited to hold exhibitions in Nanjing and Shanghai, which made Dunhuang art widely spread.