Dunhuang Mogao grottoes information

Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Cave, is located in Dunhuang at the western end of Hexi Corridor. Founded in the pre-Qin period of the Sixteen Countries, after the Sixteen Countries, Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Five Dynasties, Xixia and Yuan Dynasties, it has formed a huge scale, with 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals and 24 15 clay sculptures. It is the largest and richest Buddhist art site in the world.

196 1 year, the Mogao grottoes were announced by the people of China and the State Council as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 1987, Mogao grottoes was listed as a world cultural heritage.

Mogao Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi, Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, Henan, and Maijishan Grottoes in Tianshui, Gansu are collectively called the four major grottoes in China.

The 1,000-year history of the construction of Dunhuang Grottoes coincides with the important development period of China's long-term separatist regime in the upper and lower Han Dynasties, its national integration and the unification of the north and the south, its peak in the Tang Dynasty and its decline. This period is the formation and development of China's artistic procedures, schools, categories and theories, as well as the establishment and development of China's Buddhist theories and sects after Buddhism and Buddhist art were introduced. Buddhist art became an important category of China art, and finally completed the China period.

Judging from the categories of painting art in China, the figure paintings, landscape paintings, animal paintings and decorative paintings in Dunhuang Grottoes have a history of thousands of years, which are self-contained and numerous, and can all become independent histories of figure paintings, landscape paintings, animal paintings and decorative paintings. In particular, it has preserved such rich examples of figure paintings, landscape paintings, animal paintings and decorative patterns in China before the Song Dynasty, that is, before 10 century, which is unprecedented in the collections of museums all over the world.

There are more than 200 caves with music as the theme in Dunhuang murals, and many bands, musicians and musical instruments are painted. According to statistics, there are more than 500 groups of different types of bands, more than 40 kinds of musical instruments and more than 4,500 pieces. There are also music materials such as music scores in Dunhuang Tibetan scriptures cave documents. Rich music images show the continuous development and changes of China music culture in the past 1000 years. It provides valuable information for the study of China's music history and the communication between Chinese and Western music.