Taiyuan, February 7 (Reporter Wang Yuan) reporter learned from the Tianlongshan Museum in Taiyuan City that during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, the virtual exhibition hall of "The Return of National Treasures on the Fuxing Road - The Return of the Tianlongshan Grottoes to the Buddha's First Special Exhibition" was launched. In the past year, Buddha's head has completed the "homecoming journey" of debut, return and launch, and now it has appeared at home and abroad with a new digital image.
The head of the Buddha on the north wall of Cave 8 of tianlongshan Grottoes, as the 100th lost cultural relics returning to the motherland in 2020, appeared at the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Ox. On July 24, 2021, the Buddha head of the Tianlongshan Grottoes returned to its homeland.
In the online virtual exhibition hall, the public can see the whole exhibition in 360 degrees, such as being in the Tianlongshan GrottoEs Museum. Following the instructions on the mobile phone screen, everyone can pass through the two units of "The Death of the Troubled World" and "The Return of the Prosperous World" from the prologue hall of the exhibition hall, and finally get a glimpse of the true face of the Buddha's head.
"The Return of National Treasures on the Road to Rejuvenation - The Special Exhibition of the Return of the Tianlongshan Grottoes to the Buddha" takes the return of the Buddha's head on the north wall of the 8th Cave of Tianlong Mountain as the core exhibit, and comprehensively uses precious cultural relics, historical pictures, digital restoration, 3D printed grottoes and other forms to comprehensively tell the loss and return process of cultural relics in tianlongshan Grottoes, and show the latest achievements in the investigation and research of lost cultural relics, archaeological excavation, restoration and protection.
The Tianlongshan Grottoes were first chiseled in the Northern Dynasty and eastern Wei Dynasty, and have been excavated in different periods such as Northern Qi, Sui and Tang, forming 25 caves and more than 500 statues. In the 1920s, the Tianlongshan Grottoes were excavated on a large scale, resulting in the statues of the grottoes being in different places and in different places. So far, at least 137 pieces of Tianlongshan Grottoes cultural relics have been lost overseas.
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Source: Shanxi News Network