China launches interactive digital platform to display Dunhuang culture online
1 year, 8 months ago

China launches interactive digital platform to display Dunhuang culture online

China Daily  

An interactive digital platform of a virtual duplication of the Library Cave in Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, is accessible to the public from Tuesday. Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy and leading Chinese tech firm Tencent, the platform reproduces the historical scenes of the Library Cave over one hundred years ago in the digital world through advanced gaming technologies. Researchers have made deliberate studies in literature, architecture, and music related to the cave before establishing the digital platform, said Zhao Xiaoxing, director of the literature research institute of the Dunhuang Academy. Su Bomin, director of the academy, said more efforts will be made to explore new forms for displaying cultural relics and offer the public more immersive cultural experiences to promote and develop the Dunhuang culture.

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Cultural relics from Dunhuang featured in Shanghai exhibition
4 months ago

Cultural relics from Dunhuang featured in Shanghai exhibition

China Daily  

Lovers of Dunhuang art and culture dressed as the characters in the Mogao Caves frescoes. Cultural relics recognized as the national treasure of China from Dunhuang of Gansu province will be featured at the upcoming exhibition at China Art Museum, Shanghai. The Great Art of Dunhuang, taking place at the China Art Museum, Shanghai, also known as the Shanghai Art …

Cultural relics from Dunhuang featured in Shanghai exhibition
4 months ago

Cultural relics from Dunhuang featured in Shanghai exhibition

China Daily  

Lovers of Dunhuang art and culture dressed as the characters in the Mogao Caves frescoes. Cultural relics recognized as the national treasure of China from Dunhuang of Gansu province will be featured at the upcoming exhibition at China Art Museum, Shanghai. The Great Art of Dunhuang, taking place at the China Art Museum, Shanghai, also known as the Shanghai Art …

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing

China Daily  

Snapshots of the English version of the gamelike Digital Library Cave program, through which users can play the role of a time-traveling explorer of a millennium's twists and turns at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. English and French versions of Dunhuang's Digital Library Cave give 'tourists' new experience, Fang Aiqing reports. The potential of gaming technology …

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Gaming technology enables worldwide culture sharing

China Daily  

Snapshots of the English version of the gamelike Digital Library Cave program, through which users can play the role of a time-traveling explorer of a millennium's twists and turns at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. English and French versions of Dunhuang's Digital Library Cave give 'tourists' new experience, Fang Aiqing reports. The potential of gaming technology …

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

China Daily  

China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes is a UNESCO World Heritage site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. The two institutes have recently signed a memorandum of cooperation and …

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

China Daily  

China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes is a UNESCO World Heritage site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. The two institutes have recently signed a memorandum of cooperation and …

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

China Daily  

China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes is a UNESCO World Heritage site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. The two institutes have recently signed a memorandum of cooperation and …

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time
9 months ago

Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time

China Daily  

Visitors peruse paintings and scripture scrolls at Dunhuang Art Gallery, which is operated by the academy, in Lanzhou, Gansu province, in April. This restoration directly prompted the introduction of the Chinese Cultural Relics and Historical Sites Protection Guidelines, providing a set of ideas and methods for the protection of China's cultural relics. On May 1, 2016, Digital Dunhuang was officially …

Calendar celebrates Dunhuang and Year of Dragon
1 year ago

Calendar celebrates Dunhuang and Year of Dragon

China Daily  

The Dunhuang Calendar 2024 The Dunhuang Calendar 2024, which highlights UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, was recently published by the Dunhuang Academy and Beijing-based CITIC Press Group. The calendar shows 309 murals from the Sixteen Kingdoms period to the Yuan Dynasty, with captions explaining the content. Dunhuang has many murals with patterns of dragons, …

Calendar celebrates Dunhuang and Year of Dragon
1 year ago

Calendar celebrates Dunhuang and Year of Dragon

China Daily  

The Dunhuang Calendar 2024 The Dunhuang Calendar 2024, which highlights UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, was recently published by the Dunhuang Academy and Beijing-based CITIC Press Group. The calendar shows 309 murals from the Sixteen Kingdoms period to the Yuan Dynasty, with captions explaining the content. Dunhuang has many murals with patterns of dragons, …

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves
1 year, 4 months ago

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves

China Daily  

A painted sculpture at Cave 45 of Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu province. Photographer Wu Jian has been focusing his lens on Mogao Caves, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, for over four decades. He said at the exhibition's opening ceremony that it's a display of part of his works taken at more than 40 cultural …

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves
1 year, 4 months ago

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves

China Daily  

A painted sculpture at Cave 45 of Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu province. Photographer Wu Jian has been focusing his lens on Mogao Caves, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, for over four decades. He said at the exhibition's opening ceremony that it's a display of part of his works taken at more than 40 cultural …

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves
1 year, 4 months ago

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves

China Daily  

A painted sculpture at Cave 45 of Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu province. Photographer Wu Jian has been focusing his lens on Mogao Caves, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, for over four decades. He said at the exhibition's opening ceremony that it's a display of part of his works taken at more than 40 cultural …

Cultural exchange keeps ancient city alive
1 year, 5 months ago

Cultural exchange keeps ancient city alive

China Daily  

Ancient Sounds of Dunhuang draws inspiration from the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks. The new performance staged at the theater, Ancient Sounds of Dunhuang, draws inspiration from the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks. The collections of the Dunhuang Academy, with treasures such as clay …

Digital caves bring history alive
1 year, 7 months ago

Digital caves bring history alive

China Daily  

The Digital Library Cave project re-creates the 1,600-meter-long external cliff face of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. For more than a century, the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, in Northwest China's Gansu province, has been famous for its extraordinary collection of relics and a tale that has had its share of twists …

Digital caves bring history alive
1 year, 7 months ago

Digital caves bring history alive

China Daily  

The Digital Library Cave project re-creates the 1,600-meter-long external cliff face of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. For more than a century, the Library Cave, or Cave 17 of the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, in Northwest China's Gansu province, has been famous for its extraordinary collection of relics and a tale that has had its share of twists …

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology
1 year, 8 months ago

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology

China Daily  

Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in Dunhuang of Gansu province, on Oct 2, 2019. On Tuesday, an interactive digital platform called the "Digital Library Cave" was launched, featuring a virtual duplication of the Library Cave, employing digital technology to revive the relics for the benefit of both researchers and the general public. Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy …

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology
1 year, 8 months ago

China beefs up cultural relic protection with digital technology

China Daily  

Mogao Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in Dunhuang of Gansu province, on Oct 2, 2019. On Tuesday, an interactive digital platform called the "Digital Library Cave" was launched, featuring a virtual duplication of the Library Cave, employing digital technology to revive the relics for the benefit of both researchers and the general public. Jointly developed by the Dunhuang Academy …

Seminar examines value of Dunhuang literature
1 year, 8 months ago

Seminar examines value of Dunhuang literature

China Daily  

The complete compilation of annotated catalogues presents Dunhuang ancient Tibetan manuscripts that are kept in the National Library of France. The Complete Compilation presents the 3,176 volumes of ancient Dunhuang Tibetan manuscripts kept in the National Library of France in the form of an annotated catalogue, including the titles, sources, description, and research regarding each volume. The compilation team has …

A deeper dive into Dunhuang
2 years, 1 month ago

A deeper dive into Dunhuang

China Daily  

Veteran fresco restorer Li Bo and his protege Li Can examine a mural at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Despite being the world's largest treasure trove of Buddhist art, living conditions in Dunhuang, which sits in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, are harsher than in China's metropolises. Jointly produced by Tencent News and Dunhuang Academy, …

A deeper dive into Dunhuang
2 years, 1 month ago

A deeper dive into Dunhuang

China Daily  

Veteran fresco restorer Li Bo and his protege Li Can examine a mural at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Despite being the world's largest treasure trove of Buddhist art, living conditions in Dunhuang, which sits in the Gobi Desert in Northwest China's Gansu province, are harsher than in China's metropolises. Jointly produced by Tencent News and Dunhuang Academy, …

For those who can's visit, grottoes come to them
2 years, 4 months ago

For those who can's visit, grottoes come to them

China Daily  

Reproductions of cultural relics, murals and Buddha sculptures from the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are shown at Wuhan University's Wanlin Art Museum. More than 3,000 miles from Dunhuang, the Mogao caves, murals and painted sculptures are meeting audiences at the Wanlin Art Museum on the campus of Wuhan University in Wuhan, Hubei province. "We are proud to see the exhibition of …

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form
2 years, 4 months ago

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form

China Daily  

A poster for the Dunhuang exhibition in Beijing. By the end of 2021, the "digital Dunhuang project" had completed the digital collection of 268 grottoes, the image processing of 164 grottoes, and the 3D reconstruction of 45 painted sculptures, 146 grottoes and seven large relics sites. In the process, it has not only applied various mature technologies to the digital …

Chinese museums, galleries regale netizens with cultural feast through online exhibitions
2 years, 7 months ago

Chinese museums, galleries regale netizens with cultural feast through online exhibitions

China Daily  

Some replicas of stone statues from the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, are shown at an exhibition, which opened on March 10, at the Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. WANG JINCHAO/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese museums and galleries have accelerated their digital transformation and have rolled out online exhibitions through the application of digital technologies while exploring innovative …

Exhibition features Palace Museum, Dunhuang
3 years, 3 months ago

Exhibition features Palace Museum, Dunhuang

China Daily  

Lou Jie, a researcher with the Dunhuang Academy, introduces a replica of a Mogao Cave to visitors at a preview of the Beyond the Bounds of History exhibition in Beijing's Palace Museum on Sept 16. Two Chinese cultural heritage sites have joined hands to present a major exhibition highlighting their lasting glamour and the significance of the ancient Silk Road. …

Exhibition features Palace Museum, Dunhuang
3 years, 3 months ago

Exhibition features Palace Museum, Dunhuang

China Daily  

Lou Jie, a researcher with the Dunhuang Academy, introduces a replica of a Mogao Cave to visitors at a preview of the Beyond the Bounds of History exhibition in Beijing's Palace Museum on Sept 16. Two Chinese cultural heritage sites have joined hands to present a major exhibition highlighting their lasting glamour and the significance of the ancient Silk Road. …

Dunhuang art goes digital
3 years, 4 months ago

Dunhuang art goes digital

China Daily  

An immersive digital art exhibition featuring paintings in the ancient frescoes in Dunhuang of Gansu province will soon begin a three-year national tour starting from Shanghai. An immersive digital art exhibition featuring paintings in the ancient frescoes in Dunhuang of Gansu province will take place in Shanghai later this year before going on tour in 12 Chinese cities in the …

Digital Dunhuang Exhibition
3 years, 7 months ago

Digital Dunhuang Exhibition

China Daily  

Renowned as a World Heritage Site in Northwest China’s Gansu province, the Mogao Caves deserves to be called a holy land of Buddhist art as the home of the largest scale and the richest Buddhist cultural content found in the world. An integration of cave architecture, painted sculpture and murals, it is recognized by both Eastern and Western scholars as …

NPC deputy discusses Dunhuang culture
3 years, 9 months ago

NPC deputy discusses Dunhuang culture

China Daily  

Tourists visit the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site with numerous ancient murals and Buddhist statues, in Dunhuang, Gansu province. The Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province are a glorious pearl on the ancient Silk Road, and a typical example of traditional Chinese culture, said Su Bomin, a deputy to the National People's Congress, in an interview during the …

Reporter's log: A tourist carries home vivid images of people obscured by sands of time
3 years, 10 months ago

Reporter's log: A tourist carries home vivid images of people obscured by sands of time

China Daily  

Paintings in the No 428 cave of the Mogao Grottoes recount stories and philosophies of Buddhism. I was like opening a sealed box with unknown contents when the guide randomly opened one of the old caves at Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu province. The Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site, comprise 735 caves built by believers from 366 to …

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