Night Dunhuang: "Rebound Pipa" Dancing Flying in the sky greets distant guests with a smile

Original title: Night Dunhuang

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As night fell on Dunhuang, the sculpture "Bouncing Pipa" in the city center lit up. In the warm light, the night Dunhuang beauty has its own unique appearance.

This sculpture is a cultural landmark of Dunhuang. Under the starry sky, the city flows endlessly, the "rebound pipa" dances, and the flying sky greets distant guests with a smile.

This flying body is a big star among the more than 4500 flying bodies on the murals of the Mogao Caves. In the early 1980s, the dance drama "Silk Road Flower Rain" from domestic red to foreign countries, the red heroine Yingniang, but also the classic dance posture of the flying sky "rebound pipa". Sun Jiyuan, a famous sculptor of the Dunhuang Research Institute, sculpted this flying body for Dunhuang and became the "city standard" of Dunhuang City. In recent years, Dunhuang has grown taller and more beautiful in the sunshine and rain of reform and opening up, and Mr. Sun has reshaped the flying sky for Dunhuang. The new plastic "rebound pipa", the material from the original white cement to red granite, from short to tall, but also more beautiful.

The flying sky of the "rebound pipa" danced gently day and night in the night, smiling slightly, witnessing the days when the dunhuang people crossed the more and more prosperous days, and also silently sent blessings to guests from all over the world.

At nightfall, the Dunhuang Night Market, more than 100 meters southeast of the "rebound pipa", is full of people.

In Dunhuang, there are many places to enjoy the beauty of the night, such as the Danghe Style Line that runs through the city, and the Crescent Spring of Mingsha Mountain. But many people are more willing to come to the downtown night market, taste Dunhuang's unique flavor snacks, buy Mogao Grottoes cultural and creative works of art, and "take Dunhuang home".

Dunhuang is located at the westernmost end of the Hexi Corridor, in ancient times, this place was the "dry dock" on the Silk Road, Chinese and foreign merchants from Chang'an to here, have to spend a few days, packing, adding grain and grass, because further west, is the wind and sand raging Taklamakan Desert. Today, Dunhuang has 3 world cultural heritage sites and 4 national key cultural relics protection units, and is the most well-known place in Gansu Province.

In the streets and alleys of Dunhuang, you can see large and small vehicles from all over the country every day, coming in groups and driving. The night market in the center of the city is small, but it connects all of China and radiates the whole world.

Every year, from dusk to early morning, the tourist season is full of people every day. Walking into the night market, countless stalls are dazzling, the main street is Dunhuang special crafts, the east side is Dunhuang special cuisine, the west side is Dunhuang's local fruits, and there is a dried fruit area. In each precinct, there are dozens or hundreds of merchants, each with its own "masterpiece".

This night market showcases the countless proud works of Dunhuang people's innovations.

The main street of the night market is an art gallery. The most romantic flying sky in the Mogao Caves and the toughest camels in the desert are all on this street. In this art gallery, nature is the protagonist of the flying sky. Bouncing pipa, scattered flowers flying in the sky, tricking the flying sky, etc., the most beautiful flying sky in the Mogao Grottoes and Yulin Grottoes seems to have "run" here to participate in the "Qunfang Meeting".

These flying skies from contemporary Dunhuang craftsmen are carved on wooden boards, engraved on alloy steel plates, and painted on clay plate paintings; there are monochrome, colored, and black and white rubbings; there are colorful silk scarves, there are shapes on handbags; on fans, gourds, and snuff bottles, you can see the figure of flying and dancing. These flying sky or thick ink and heavy color, or underpainting fine painting, or turning the colorful into monochrome, or turning the flying sky in the painting into various sculptures, are all innovative works, with the charm of the Mogao Grottoes Flying Sky, and not the "copy" of the Mogao Grottoes Flying Sky, which is more in line with the aesthetic taste of modern people.

Shen Hongjie, one of the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage in Gansu Province, said: "What we do is cultural and creative products, not far from tradition, but also innovation, we inherit in innovation." ”

In the Mogao Grottoes, watching the flying sky, in the shadowy lights, it is not real to see. Out of the flying sky of the Mogao Grottoes, everyone is splendid, you can enjoy the elegant dance of the flying sky, and slowly taste the romantic beauty of the flying sky.

In the dining area, the most popular are the bubble oil cake and the shallot beef cake. According to reports, there is such a thing as bubble oil cake on the Dunhuang mural. According to the appearance on the murals, the Dunhuang people also referred to the practice of "seeing the wind and beauty" at the Court Banquet of the Tang Dynasty, and developed this delicacy.

The bubble oil cake is transparent in yellow, the surface is fluffy, and there are dense pearl-like bubbles inside, which melt in the mouth and its taste is sweet. The shallots in the shallot beef cake come from the desert Gobi in the Dunhuang area, its taste is spicy, the aroma is unique, and it is matched with beef to make a flapjack, which has the genes of the desert and the taste of Dunhuang.

In the small square in the north gate of the night market, a tall white jade statue is particularly eye-catching, that is, Chang'e is dancing under the moon. Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the "Moon Dedication Festival" is held here, and a large-scale song and dance performance is held here to spend a good night with tourists.

In the middle of the night, groups of tourists, in the barbecue area to find a table to sit, order a few small dishes, a handful of skewers, carry a few bottles of beer, in the night wind, under the flashing neon lights, there is a word without a word of gossip. From time to time, they look up to the sky and look at the twinkling stars in the night sky, which is really a romantic and elegant thing in the journey.

Dunhuang under the stars, there are Mogao Grottoes in the east, Danghe Style Line in the west, Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring in the south, and the night market is in between, each with its own beauty. In the painting, in the scene, in the scene, there are many kinds of styles. Visitors from all over the world, thousands of tourists, Tao Ran among them.