How can we protect cultural relics such as cave temples?

In recent years, with the improvement of people's living standards, more and more people are willing to spend their holidays by tourism, and a trip to the grottoes with profound historical and humanistic atmosphere has become the choice of many tourists. At the same time, news about the destruction of grotto cultural relics is not uncommon. Today, we might as well talk about how to protect grottoes.

Longmen Grottoes and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are two familiar grotto-like attractions. We will take them as examples to analyze the reasons for the destruction of grotto cultural relics.

First of all, because the grotto cultural relics themselves are very old, the cultural relics that have been baptized by war and destroyed by wind and rain are fragile.

The Buddha statues in Longmen Grottoes are mottled by thousands of years of wind and rain erosion, and the murals in Mogao Grottoes have faded or even peeled off the stone walls due to the invasion of moisture.

Secondly, in the process of developing grotto scenic spots, the early development methods are too rough and simple, and the planning is unreasonable, which often leads to the destruction of cultural relics, and the over-exploitation of grotto cultural relics itself is a kind of destruction.

Finally, after the development of the scenic spot, the grottoes were destroyed again because of the poor management of the scenic spot and the uncivilized behavior of some tourists.

To sum up, there are two main reasons for the destruction of grotto scenic spots: nature and belief, which can suit the remedy to the case.

In nature, the development of science and technology now gives us more ways to protect cultural relics. Relevant departments of scenic spots can use high-tech technology to deeply protect statues and murals. At the same time, with the development of Internet new media technology, grottoes can also be displayed in the form of data and graphics to meet the viewing needs of tourists.

In terms of humanities, the development of scenic spots should take into account the protection of grotto cultural relics. At the same time, strengthen the management of scenic spots, guide tourists to watch it in a civilized way, and let everyone pay attention to the protection of cultural relics through publicity.

Grottoes are precious heritages left by our ancestors, and we should protect them together.