"Ten thousand miles of Dunhuang Road, the snow in the three springs has not yet cleared."
Sending the jun away on the horse, it is like stepping on a flower line.
--Ming Wang Wei"
When I was a child, I memorized poems and always recited poems about the scenery of Gansu,
Whenever Gansu is mentioned, it will be lamented that the place names of Gansu are so poetic
Jiuquan, Zhangye, Wuwei, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Tianshui, Longnan...
The same is true of the most prestigious Dunhuang:
Dun, Daye, Huang, Shengye.
Because of its wide opening of the western region, it is famous for Dunhuang.
From the moment of its birth, the city has revealed its extraordinary, brilliant life.
Dunhuang is a node city of the Silk Road, famous for its "Dunhuang Grottoes" and "Dunhuang Murals", and is one of the four major oases in Gansu Province.
It is also a national historical and cultural city and the cultural capital of East Asia.
As Ji Xianlin said, "The world has a long history, a vast territory, a self-contained system, and a far-reaching cultural system."
There are only four: China, India, Greece, Islam, and there is no fifth;
And there is only one place where these four cultural systems converge, that is, Dunhuang in China, and there is no second. ”
Dunhuang, located at the junction of Gansu and the desert, has built the basic Gobi Desert landform of Dunhuang through years of wind and sand. From the regional level, Dunhuang is given a unique gene that distinguishes it from others. The Mogao Caves and murals have given Dunhuang the soul of its inner culture. The cultural genes of the millennium determine the depth and thickness of Dunhuang and create the millennium brilliance of Dunhuang.
Mogao Caves
Dunhuang, full of culture and history, if you can only go to one place, Yu Jie believes that it is not the Mogao Grottoes.
The Mogao Caves are the largest and most abundant Buddhist art site in the world.
735 caves, 2,415 painted sculptures, 45,000 square meters of murals, more than 70,000 volumes of literature...
And that regrettable cave.
From a historical point of view, the construction of the Dunhuang Grottoes and its historical process, which are not recorded or rarely recorded in history, and the relationship between Dunhuang and the surrounding ethnic groups and the Western Regions, can understand many historical conditions and historical clues in these portraits and relics of the Mogao Grottoes.
From the perspective of the category of Chinese painting and art, the figure paintings, landscape paintings, animal paintings, and decorative pattern paintings in the Dunhuang grotto murals have a thousand years of history.
A special point is that it preserves the rich examples of figure paintings, landscape paintings, animal paintings, etc. before the Song Dynasty in China, and these paintings of the Mogao Grottoes are not visible in the collections of museums around the world
The development of science and technology has led to digital Dunhuang, which can be viewed online, but Yu Jie feels that it is still necessary to feel it in person, after all, Mogao Grottoes is a comprehensive art of cave architecture, painted sculpture and painting, which is the precipitation of history, the atmosphere that digital images cannot reproduce, and the treasure that is difficult to see again.
Mingsha Mountain
If you also want to add a must-go punch point, Yu Jie recommends Mingsha Mountain.
The "Shazhou Tujing" wrote: "The flow is uncertain, the deep valley of Russia is a mausoleum, the high rock is a valley, the peaks are like a sharp, the lonely smoke is picturesque, and there is no place for doubt." ”
The peculiarity of Mingsha Mountain is that if a person descends from the top of the mountain, the sand under his feet will whine;
During the day, the footprints left by people climbing the sand mountain will be completely gone the next day.
The so-called singing sand is not self-singing, but a sound produced by people sliding down the sand surface, which is a spectacle in natural phenomena...
The sand peaks of Mingsha Mountain look at the past curvature like the waves on the sea, but they are golden, and the distance alone is already shocked. Look closely at the hillside, the sand waves also have a different kind of fun, with the traces left by pedestrians walking by, the traces of the wind, they are sometimes turbulent, sometimes slow, like flowing water
Standing on the "golden sand" of Shaming Mountain, there are no buildings made of reinforced concrete around it, the blue sky is on the top, the golden sand is underneath, the heavens and the earth are suddenly open, the vision and the heart are suddenly open, and there are strange sounds in the ears, such as bells like a piano, such as golden drums chirping in unison...
This scene and this sound are unforgettable for a long time.
There is also a crescent spring in Mingsha Mountain.
Surrounded by Mingsha Mountain, the crescent spring is about 150 meters long and about 50 meters wide, so named because the water surface resembles a crescent moon.
The source of the crescent spring is the Dang River, relying on the continuous filling of the river water, surrounded by yellow sand on all sides, the spring water is clear and bright, and it has not dried up for thousands of years, which is amazing.
Since the 1990s, the flow between the Dang River and the Crescent Spring has been cut off, and only artificial methods can be used to maintain the status quo of the spring.
The topic of "whether the crescent spring will disappear tomorrow" has begun to be discussed continuously, but fortunately, it has been added to the protection monitoring, and the spring water of the crescent spring is still clear and the landscape is still unique.
Pavilions and pavilions have been built by the spring, which is even more flavorful
If you go to Mingsha Mountain, it is recommended that you must see the sunset in Mingsha Mountain!
The landscape at sunset is very beautiful, the sunset is matched with the golden desert on the ground, so chic and open to enjoy...
There is also the crescent spring reflected in the sunset clouds like fire... It's a blessing to think about!
Walking and playing in the desert, it must be tired, if you want a good place to relax, Yu Jie recommends a hotel with convenient transportation and excellent environment here
China's "Orient"
Wind bone and air rhyme
Dongyi · Dunhuang
Another destination for the hotel~
Dongyi Dunhuang Hotel is located in the heart of Dunhuang Cultural District, perched on cliffs, deserts, Yadan, only 15 minutes drive from the airport, and only 5 minutes drive to Mingsha Mountain!
Dongyi is not only a great place to stay, but also has an art museum and an artist's studio.
The diversified forms and hotel clusters with different Dunhuang genes allow travelers to feel the surprise hidden in the thousand-year history and natural landscape through Dongyi.
Dongyi design
The architectural design of the hotel is inspired by the traditional northwest houses, and the earth yellow of the current building is the representative color of the northwest, which is the color of the desert and the background color of Dunhuang.
In terms of overall planning, Dongyi Dunhuang retains the sand dune relationship of the original site, which is a geographical characteristic that people must experience in addition to their vision of Dunhuang culture and art.
The overall layout is based on the layout of the sunken buildings surrounding the landscape, surrounded by a large number of poplar trees, giving visitors a sense of "gradual" from the outside to the inside, not exaggerated, but profound.
The courtyard wall can also be protected from wind and sand, and the design of all products in the room is inspired by the natural and human factors of Dunhuang, which is an expression of Dunhuang culture. Here, a pot of wine, an ancient music, a landscape...
There are two stones at the entrance of the hotel lobby, which are rolled down from the Three Dangers Mountain, washed by rain for many years, with the beauty and vitality of time, and they are used as town stones, hoping to give safety and health to those who come to Dongyi.
The hotel lobby is named Homecoming, implying that it should be the living room of everyone's home. When guests step into here, it is like returning to home, sunken steps, low collapse, fire, tea bar, so that the body instantly relaxes, making people feel kind and at ease.
Fire pond, which is the central leisure area after entering from the lobby, in the company of elegant poplar trees, sit quietly, as if seeing time lingering around, no white colt crossing the gap, no white cloud dog, some just leisurely tranquility and the peace of old age.
Contemporary "Oriental"
Also ancient, but also contemporary
East Station Experience
The first phase of the hotel has a total of 64 rooms and 8 artist studios in the small courtyard room, the landscape room, the desert pool villa. Get up close and personal with the Dongyi Crescent Spring, enjoy the stars and moons on the rooftop, or overlook the magnificent Singing Sand Mountain in the distance, and enjoy an extraordinary experience in a fabulous environment.
The "East" of Natural Philosophy
Heaven and man are one, and heaven is a union
Dongyi. Room type recommended
Yu Jie's favorite in the room type is the desert villa type~
Spacious and spacious with a comfortable queen-size bed and viewing area, and large glass windows allow for panoramic views.
The decoration design with Dunhuang color matching creates a harmonious artistic style, so that the whole villa is rich in the unique atmosphere of Dunhuang. As soon as I walked in, there was a sense of belonging, and I also awakened some "historical memories"...
Outside the window is the desert, and the view from the window is unobstructed, as if it is a quiet habitat between the vast heavens and the earth.
The red cloth is more and more brightly sunburned by the sun, which seems to show its vitality, and it seems to be saying", "Enjoy the sunshine of Dunhuang with me~" The sunlight of peanut oil shines into our lives through the window...
In addition to the red, there is also a fresh and natural blue-green color.
It is a comfortable bed ~ red and green contrasting colors together, fashion does not lose the sense of beauty, and in this single color of the desert is also particularly conspicuous, full of vitality but stable atmosphere ~
Dunhuang mural culture is the spiritual synthesis of the dunhuang people in the historical and geographical environment, and the integration and application of this cultural element in indoor soft decoration is to construct a new presentation, so that art and culture live in nature, and people live in nature, which is the greatest respect for Dunhuang.
The design of the roof roof and the pavilion is inspired by the feeling of the northwest sun, and taking photos on such a pavilion should be special!
Whether it is morning dawn or sunset, whether it is windless or windy, it can be combined with red cloth to create a different feeling...
The unity of heaven and man, the tao law is natural, Dongyi Dunhuang is in this vast and subtle, patrolling, dialogue, looking back, reflecting, is the fusion of the outside and the inside, rough and delicate, rational and sensual between the combination of heaven.
It is clean and leisurely at dawn, and as lively as a flame at sunset...
When there is no wind, the years are quiet, when the wind blows free and wild...
When night falls, it is warm and ambiguous...
Dunhuang is boundless and grand
In the contemporary expression of the spirit of Oriental culture
Dongyi constructed another possible Dunhuang
A habitat for the oriental art of living
Hidden between thousands of years of history and heaven and earth