Look at the news by Knows author He Jie Visual Design Lu Xinquan
2021-10-02 21:30
Anyone who has been to Dunhuang will be deeply moved by the exquisite Buddha statues and murals in the Mogao Grottoes. Despite the vicissitudes of time, those colors may have been mottled and peeled off, but it is completely impossible to hide the beauty of the work of art. Standing in the cave for a few minutes, you will be deeply shocked, and at the same time, you will also think about what kind of people have created these works, and what kind of people are supporting the people who created these works and the works themselves. It may be impossible to fully understand this, but our imagination can still reach it.
The Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue performed a story based on a signed clue in the historical data, "Zhao Xingde, the governor of the Great Song Dynasty", which is his classic work "Dunhuang". This novel writes about how Zhao Xingde, a great Song dynasty man, came to Western Xia by mistake, and during the years of the Great Song and Western Xia's hostilities, he walked and traveled between these ancient cities in the Hexi Corridor, witnessing the wars, trade exchanges, cultural exchanges, and life and death on this thousand-year-old road. In the end, the treasures and treasures given to him by various people he met during his journey became the unique collection in the Dunhuang Scripture Cave.
After reading this work, you will find that Zhao Xingde's life always seems to have an invisible hand pushing him. Of course, the story is not true, but the fate of people in the chaotic world is involuntary, which is true.
Although the name of the book is "Dunhuang", dunhuang accounts for a small proportion of the whole story. Before that, the stories written by Inoue Jing took place in Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, and finally wrote about Shazhou, that is, Dunhuang. Friends who are familiar with the Hexi Corridor will find that this order is precisely in the order of the cities on the Hexi Corridor from east to west. The end of the story is Dunhuang, and the intersection of all the stories that take place on this thousand-year-old road is also in Dunhuang. I think that generation after generation of history and characters may eventually be buried under the yellow sand, but only Dunhuang's works of art are eternal, and this may be what the author wants to say through such a story.
(Look at the news Knows author: He Jie Visual Design: Lu Xinquan)