This Dunhuang exhibition is during the winter vacation and the Spring Festival, in order to facilitate children to better understand and learn Dunhuang culture, a series of Dunhuang-themed Catholic education activities have been launched, and I look forward to everyone walking into the exhibition site, using their brains and making their own "Dunhuang Memories".
Exhibition site
1. Museum class
Silk Road Long Journey - Dunhuang Grottoes Exploration
Yulin Cave 25 Cave View Immeasurable Life Change
The Silk Road across Eurasia stretched from Chang'an in the east to Rome in the west. Do you know how many people have walked east and west on this thousands of kilometers of commercial avenue, and how many interesting stories have happened?
Yulin Cave - Cave 3 - Xibi South - Puxian Change - Wenshu production
When was Dunhuang, the throat of the Silk Road, established?
In which city are Yangguan and Yumen passed?
Why are there so many grottoes here?
Is there an image of a "foreigner" in the Dunhuang murals?
What critters did you find in the murals?
There are many interesting stories in the Dunhuang murals, which ones do you know?
45 cave parts
Let's walk into the exhibition hall together and explore the secrets of the Dunhuang Grottoes and find answers in the museum class.
2. Nine colors of Dunhuang
Ore pigment production
Why are the colors of dunhuang murals so bright after thousands of years?
What mystery is hidden in this?
What process does it take for a stone to become one of those colorful pigments?
What are the different colors made of?
Nine colors of Dunhuang - ore pigment production, take you into the magnificent world of Dunhuang colors.
Pigment ore
Pigment plants
Paint production
3. Handmade experience
Danqing-Dunhuang mural painting on the wall
Draw a clay board drawing
As a unique treasure trove of ancient Chinese painting art, Dunhuang was called by Mr. Zhang Daqian as "from the Yuan Wei dynasty to the Western Xia, from generation to generation, and the original Aofu..."
Clay board painting
The content of the murals is all-encompassing, from religion to art, from figures to flowers and birds, from western style to Han style, and the amount of ownership is huge to more than 45,000 square meters.
Mogao Caves - Cave 220 - Medicine Master Transformation
Mogao Cave Cave 254 - Saku Bunsen
Mogao Cave Cave 257 - Nine Colored Deer Bunsen
From the Huxuan dance of Cave 220 to the Wei Mo Jie Of Cave 103, from the sacrificial feeding of tigers in Cave 254 to the Puxian travel map of Cave 3 of Yulin Cave, of course, the most widely known is the nine-colored deer in Cave 257.
How is such a large volume of mural art painted? Don't go away, let's take home a mud painting unique to Dunhuang!
4. Flying rain
Dunhuang painted sculpture production
Meditation Buddha statue reproduction Mogao Caves Cave 259
In addition to the Dunhuang grotto art full of walls and Danqing, another kind of most popular is dunhuang painted sculpture.
Offerings to bodhisattvas kneeling
Since the local rock layers in Dunhuang are mostly gravel, the craftsmen at that time used local materials, and wood bone clay sculpture became the main way of making painted plastics in Dunhuang.
From the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Northern Dynasty to the Lux Heavenly Kings of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the craftsmen of Dunhuang presented us with the spirit of the times in the form of statues.
Schematic diagram of wood bone clay sculpture
Wooden bone clay sculpture
Feitian Huayu - Dunhuang Painted Sculpture Making Activity, let us experience how Dunhuang Painted Sculpture is made under the guidance of the teacher.
5. Not decorated is not beautiful
Dunhuang Zaojing production
Three Rabbit Flying Algae Well - Mogao Cave 407 Cave
If the sutra painting is painted according to the Buddhist scriptures, and the color sculpture production also has a certain measurement ritual, then the algae well located at the top of the cave must be the only place for the devotees and craftsmen to freely exert their personal preferences and artistic talents.
Baochi Lotus Pingqi - Mogao Cave 257
We saw three rabbits in Cave 407 with ears and chasing each other;
We saw the swimming celestials in Cave 257 playing freely in the treasure pool;
We see the flowing flying sky around the lotus flowers opening up in Cave 329;
Lotus Flying Algae Well - Cave 329 of Mogao Caves
Those free, unbridled imaginations are intoxicating and infinitely yearning. Take a piece of plain algae dough flowers, paint the pattern you want, paint the color you like, don't decorate it, who says there is only one kind of beauty?
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Review: Yu Yue
Signature: Cheng Yang