Hi, everybody. Now I take you to visit the world famous buddhist art treasure house, dunhuang mogao grottoes. The mogao grottoes from 25 km southeast of dunhuang city, I use this time, just the mogao grottoes do a simple introduction first.
The mogao grottoes is a melting at an organic whole, painting, sculpture and architecture is given priority to with wall paintings, statues of large cave temples. Its cave shape mainly buddhist grotto, center pillar wat, wat temple, buddhist altar wat, 4 walls three recess hole, big like nirvana wat, wat. The wat size is far, the biggest wat 16 of 268 square meters, the minimum high wat not YingChe 37. Wat outside the original wooden house, and a corridor connects, plank road, has no more.
Mogao grottoes murals painted on the walls of caves, wat top and niches, and profound content, mainly include the figure of Buddha, buddhist stories, historic, JingBian, fantastic, kucha, decorative pattern and so on seven classes, there are a lot of performance when hunting, farming, textile, transportation, war, construction, dance, painting on weddings and so on various aspects of social life. These paintings' wide, bright magnificent, reflects the different periods of artistic style and features. Five generations ago is a Chinese painting mostly is lost, the mogao grottoes murals for the Chinese art history research provides an important physical, also for the study of Chinese ancient customs, provides valuable image and pattern. According to calculation, if these murals according to 2 meters high, can be arranged in a gallery of 25 km.
The mogao grottoes in the cliff is relatively soft, not suitable for making stone, so the mogao grottoes statues in addition to the four Buddha, stone tire clay sculpture, the rest are wooden bone clay sculpture. Statue is buddhist deities, with an array of portraits of single image and wait for a variety of combination, group general with Buddha center, stand on both sides of the disciples, bodhisattva, less then 3, more is up to 11. Painted sculpture in the form of a round plastic, plastic, plastic film, good karma and plastic, etc. These was so delicate, rich imagination, and very high attainments, mural and compatibility, bring out the best in each other.
It is a nine layers of eaves, also called as "Peking University", are now in the middle of cliff wat, as high as the summits of top, towering spectacular. Its wooden for red soil, high canopies teeth peck, contours of strewn at random have send, tied the bell on the eaves Angle, with the wind. With maitreya statue, 35.6 meters high, the stone tire clay sculpture, coloured drawing or pattern is China's domestic behind the leshan giant Buddha and rong county the third largest Buddha sitting Buddha. Either accommodate Buddha space large and small, flat square. Open two channel building outside, both for nearby watch the Buddha, and Buddha head and waist of the light source. (888) of the first year of the wat eaves in Tang Wende existed before, at the time of 5 layers, the northern song dynasty, four years (966) and qing dynasty has been rebuilt, and changed to 4 layer. 1935 repaired again, form now 9 layer model.
Murals in the mogao grottoes, beautiful everywhere flying apsaras - dunhuang city ChengDiao is also a rebound pipa flying fairy's image. Flying is serve the Buddha and god indra day, sing. Walls, playing flying in the vast boundless universe, some lotus buds in hand, into the sky. Some swooped down from the sky, if a potential meteor; Some shelf through heavy floor, just like flying; Others are thrown into the wind, carefree. Painter USES the unique winding for the long term, interest and stretches the harmonious and present people ethereal imagine a beautiful world.
Gorgeous colour, flying lines, in the northwest of painters in the kingdom of heaven is a warm and passionate portray to ideal, we seem to feel they are in the desert on the longitudinal ride an inexhaustible passion rush, perhaps it is this passion, from which the mural in the flamboyant imagine strength!
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