Why is a painting in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes called Feitian?

Hello, I'm Master Jiang from the tourist chartered car. Flying in Dunhuang is the business card of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and a symbol of Dunhuang art. As long as you see the beautiful flying, people will think of the art of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. Almost all of the 492 caves in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are painted with flying sky. "It is also a paradise for foreign countries to pray for God." In India, god flying in the air is called flying. Tian Fei often appears in the murals of Buddhist grottoes. In Taoism, mythical figures who have ascended to heaven are called "immortals", such as "leading immortals", "celestial immortals" and "barefoot immortals", and immortals who can fly in the air are called flying immortals. In the Song Dynasty, the Taiping Magnolia Volume 622 quoted a cloud in Fairy Products: "Flying in the clouds, lightly deifying, thinking that immortals are also flying in the clouds."

After Buddhism was introduced into China, it exchanged and merged with Taoism in China. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, shortly after the spread of Buddhism, the flying immortals in murals were once called flying immortals, which was the difference between flying immortals and flying immortals. With the in-depth development of Buddhism in China, the flying of Buddhism and the flying fairy of Taoism are integrated in artistic image. It now refers to the flying gods in Dunhuang Grottoes, and later became the proper term of Dunhuang mural art unique to China.

As far as artistic image is concerned, Dunhuang Tian Fei is not a cultural and artistic image, but a synthesis of various cultures. Although Tian Fei's hometown is in India, Tian Fei in Dunhuang was bred by Indian culture, western culture and Central Plains culture. It is a flying sky with China cultural characteristics. It is a long-term exchange between Indian Buddhist heaven and human beings and China Taoist feather people, flying in the western regions and flying in the Central Plains. It was a featherless, round, dull, colorful and cloudless sky, soaring mainly by fluttering dresses and fluttering ribbons. Flying in Dunhuang is the most talented creation of China artists and a miracle in the world art history.

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