Dunhuang murals belong to the World Cultural Heritage, with different aesthetic characteristics and artistic styles from secular paintings, plant patterns as an extremely important form of artistic expression has always run through it, the murals are rich in flowers and trees, lush forests and grasses, and rich in species connotations.
The plant in the Dunhuang murals - pine trees
Photo by Hu Hao
Pinus is a collective name for the genus Pinus in the Pinaceae family, an evergreen coniferous tree, and a hermaphroditic plant. Branches are rotunded, scales are solitary, winter buds are prominent, and bud scales are spiral-shaped. The most obvious feature of pine trees is that the leaves are needle-like, often 2-, 3-, or 5-needle bundles. Such as oil pine, Huangshan pine leaves 2 needles a bunch, whitebark pine leaves 3 needles a bunch, red pine, Huashan pine leaves 5 needles a bunch.
The pine tree is majestic and vigorous, with a tall canopy, meaning high life, evergreen in all seasons, and is an important ornamental tree species in the garden greening and landscape modeling. At the same time, pine trees are used to prevent and control oxidative stress and metabolic diseases, and the health care effect is remarkable.
Pine trees in frescoes
(Source: China Wildlife Conservation Association Public Account Editor Wang Qiang)