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"The Gobi Highway and desert style, especially seeing the international Internet celebrity sculptures, are like meeting the 'magic pen of the times', which is quite praised. Sichuan tourists said.
"After running more than 3,000 kilometers, I was shocked to see this 'son of the earth' and felt the charm of Gobi sculpture art. A tourist from Zhejiang who traveled by car said.
"The cave is beautifully colored and colorful, and the Yulin Cave is an artistic 'treasure' hidden in the depths of the desert. Qinghai tourists exclaimed.
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At the site of the "Poetic Gansu and Warm Guazhou" - the spring series of wind shooting and publicity activities in Guazhou and Dunhuang Twin Cities, Guazhou was once again well received by tourists.
Wang Guozhen once said: "I wanted to harvest a spring breeze, but you gave me the whole spring." "It's like Guazhou today.
Guazhou, a warm and low-key ancient city.
Her warmth, a small city with a permanent population of less than 50,000, warms 25,000 passing "guests" on snowy nights.
Her low-key - in the depths of the Gobi is hidden a check-in place for wilderness art, breathtaking murals and grottoes, and the desirable Gobi Highway......
If you can't roll it anymore, set off for Guazhou and have an unhurried trip that you want. Here, the desert, the sunset, tranquility, and freedom are all with you.
When you approach Guazhou, you will find that this small city is not simple. The artistic collision through time and space, the encounter of "the stroke of the times", and the yearning of "going to the end of the world with a sword......
A "jewel" of art that transcends time and space
All the way to the west, 20 kilometers south of Guazhou City, the Gobi International Sculpture Art Gallery, a 4.3-meter-high, 15-meter-long, brown-red child sculpture called "Son of the Earth" lies in the embrace of heaven and earth, blending with the vast desert Gobi affection.
"Children of the Earth" is a new era landmark on the Silk Road. In 2016, Professor Dong Shubing, a sculptor and head of the sculpture department of the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University, used digital technology to carve out rough red sandstone on the Gobi Desert on the slope of the Red Mountain in Guazhou County.
Subsequently, on the Guazhou Gobi International Sculpture Art Gallery, large-scale outdoor sculptures such as "Mirage", "Wind Whisperer", "Gobi Ark" and "Han Wu Xiongfeng" were built one after another, attracting domestic and foreign tourists to check in.
The heroic style of Han Wu is the symbol of Guazhou and the spiritual sustenance of the people of Guazhou. It represents the history and culture of Guazhou, as well as the courage and tenacity of the people of Guazhou.
Unbounded, the whole sculpture is like a mirage, and with the constant change of light, there are many fascinating images in the desert. In terms of modeling, "Unbounded" is based on the architectural style in the Tang Dynasty in Cave 25 of Yulin Cave, and integrates traditional Chinese architectural styles.
At present, the artistic creation of the Gobi Desert has undoubtedly become a new business card of Guazhou's tourism, telling the unique charm of Gobi culture to the province and even the world, and also demonstrating Guazhou's inclusive, open and developing "mind".
4,000 years of cultural accumulation and 4,000 years of rich regional customs constitute the unique cultural landscape of the Western Regions in Guazhou, as well as natural and historical relics.
In addition to the artistic charm of desert sculptures, Guazhou is more attractive to tourists, as well as the world-famous Yulin Caves.
In the depths of the Gobi is a thousand-year-old grotto
"China National Geographic" commented on the Yulin Grottoes: If the murals of the Mogao Grottoes rank first in the country in terms of quantity and quality, then the Yulin Grottoes are the treasure house of mural art second only to the Mogao Grottoes.
However, the grotto art of Yulin Grottoes is by no means a simple "copy" of Mogao Grottoes.
Yulin Cave is known as the "sister cave" of Mogao Caves. Its content, artistic style, and painting form are in the same vein as the Mogao Grottoes, and belong to the art system of the Dunhuang Grottoes.
"The beauty of the Dunhuang Grottoes of Modao, and the masterpieces of the murals are in Yulin" has long been familiar in the local and academic circles.
Yulin Caves, also known as Wanfo Gorge, is located in the Gobi Canyon about 70 kilometers south of Guazhou County, Gansu Province, the Yulin River flows through the canyon, and the elm trees on both sides become forests, so the Yulin Caves get its name. In 1961, Yulin Grottoes was announced by the State Council as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in the country.
According to the explanation, due to the lack of historical records, the specific founding age of Yulin Cave has been impossible to verify, the existing cave was built in the early Tang Dynasty at the earliest, after the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, the Western Xia, the Uighurs, the Yuan Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty built and rebuilt, a total of 43 caves, the total area of the mural is about 5200 square meters, more than 270 colored sculptures, the content is very rich, the value of cultural relics is extremely high, from the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, there are many masterpieces left in the past dynasties, known as the treasure house of mural art.
Visiting the Yulin Grottoes, you will learn from the long river of history that the Yulin Grottoes truly reproduce the Buddhist art of the Dunhuang Grottoes from the Tang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, and preserve the rich information of the integration of Western culture and multi-ethnic culture on the Silk Road, especially the 25th Cave of the Middle Tang Dynasty, the 2nd Cave of the Western Xia, the 3rd Cave, the 29th Cave, The mural art works such as the 4th cave of the Yuan Dynasty not only make up for the shortcomings of the Mogao Grottoes and enrich the artistic content of the Dunhuang Grottoes, but also are the rare art treasures in the entire Chinese Buddhist grottoes, with extremely high historical and artistic value.
A thousand years in a cave, a thousand years in a cave. Nowadays, the silent cave entrances, watching the sunset of the long river and the lonely smoke of the desert, also collect the cultural China and the thousand-year-old history.
Pack your bags and go, go to Guazhou, and take a trip through time and space......
Source: New Gansu