Protection of major grottoes emphasized
3 months ago

Protection of major grottoes emphasized

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Tourists visit the Maijishan Grottoes in Tianshui, Gansu province, in June. As part of Xi's four-day trip to Gansu province last week, Zhao accompanied the president on a fact-finding trip to the Maijishan Grottoes, one of China's four major grottoes sites. China's vast landscape is home to nearly 6,000 cave temples, and the Chinese president lauded the nation's major grottoes as "treasures of Chinese civilization" that hold significant historical and cultural value. He has shown great concern for cultural heritage sites that represent Chinese civilization, such as the Mogao and Maijishan grottoes, and he has dedicated considerable attention to the preservation of these cultural relics." "Historical and cultural heritage is a valuable resource that is neither renewable nor replaceable, and its protection should always be given top priority," Xi said when visiting the Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi.

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Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless
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4 weeks ago

Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless

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Visitors admire a stone statue at the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province. In recent years, Shanxi has been actively integrating its rich cultural heritage with tourism, driving high-quality development across various sectors. In the first three quarters of this year, Shanxi received 318 million domestic visits, marking a 13.8 percent increase from the same period last year. Wang Aiqin, …

Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless
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4 weeks ago

Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless

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Visitors admire a stone statue at the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province. In recent years, Shanxi has been actively integrating its rich cultural heritage with tourism, driving high-quality development across various sectors. In the first three quarters of this year, Shanxi received 318 million domestic visits, marking a 13.8 percent increase from the same period last year. Wang Aiqin, …

Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless
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4 weeks ago

Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless

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Visitors admire a stone statue at the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province. In recent years, Shanxi has been actively integrating its rich cultural heritage with tourism, driving high-quality development across various sectors. In the first three quarters of this year, Shanxi received 318 million domestic visits, marking a 13.8 percent increase from the same period last year. Wang Aiqin, …

Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless
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4 weeks ago

Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless

China Daily  

Visitors admire a stone statue at the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province. In recent years, Shanxi has been actively integrating its rich cultural heritage with tourism, driving high-quality development across various sectors. In the first three quarters of this year, Shanxi received 318 million domestic visits, marking a 13.8 percent increase from the same period last year. Wang Aiqin, …

Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless
Top News
4 weeks ago

Shanxi's cultural heritage remains timeless

China Daily  

Visitors admire a stone statue at the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province. In recent years, Shanxi has been actively integrating its rich cultural heritage with tourism, driving high-quality development across various sectors. In the first three quarters of this year, Shanxi received 318 million domestic visits, marking a 13.8 percent increase from the same period last year. Wang Aiqin, …

Renowned artists marks 75th birthday of PRC in Guyuan
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Renowned artists marks 75th birthday of PRC in Guyuan

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In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, 19 nationally renowned artists visited the Xumi Mountain scenic area in Guyuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Saturday, where they painted on location along with local artists. The Xumi Mountain scenic area in Guyuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region is home to one of China's most …

Ancient sites in Shanxi's Datong enthrall with rich history
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ancient sites in Shanxi's Datong enthrall with rich history

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People visit the Yungang Grottoes on Aug 23, 2024. Yungang Grottoes, treasure troves of Buddhist art A trip to Datong wouldn't be complete without exploring the Yungang Grottoes, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site. Yungang Grottoes represent the pinnacle of Buddhist cave art from the 5th and 6th centuries, created during the Northern Wei Dynasty when Datong was the capital …

Gansu forum focusing on grotto studies
4 months ago

Gansu forum focusing on grotto studies

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The 2024 International Forum on Cave Temple Conservation, organized by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, kicked off on Monday in Dunhuang, Gansu province. According to Guan Qiang, deputy director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, China's cave temples, as represented by Mogao, not only vividly demonstrate the spread of Buddhism in China, but are also testimony to Chinese civilization. That …

Gansu forum focusing on grotto studies
4 months ago

Gansu forum focusing on grotto studies

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The 2024 International Forum on Cave Temple Conservation, organized by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, kicked off on Monday in Dunhuang, Gansu province. According to Guan Qiang, deputy director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, China's cave temples, as represented by Mogao, not only vividly demonstrate the spread of Buddhism in China, but are also testimony to Chinese civilization. That …

Yungang Grottoes get tech boost
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Yungang Grottoes get tech boost

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Visitors admire the precious relics both inside and outside the caves at Yungang Grottoes, Datong, Shanxi province, on July 15. Having more than 59,000 sculptures and statues and 45 major caves that survive to date, Yungang Grottoes was created under authorization of the Northern Wei rulers. The decorative patterns, architectural styles and features of the figures there signify a mixture …

Technology brings art from Chinese grottoes to Greece
7 months, 1 week ago

Technology brings art from Chinese grottoes to Greece

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Visitors admired the beauty of art from ancient China as a digital exhibition of the Tianlongshan Grottoes kicked off in Athens, Greece on Saturday. Visitors were inspired by the beauty of 1,500-year-old art from Chinese grottoes, as a digital exhibition of the Tianlongshan Grottoes kicked off in Athens, Greece on Saturday. With carving begun during the Northern Dynasties Eastern Wei …

Repairing the past, restoring our future
1 year, 2 months ago

Repairing the past, restoring our future

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Visitors appreciate rock carvings in Baodingshan, one of the five major clusters in Dazu district, Chongqing. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Cave temple protection in Chongqing requires effort, talent and pride in rich heritage A massive array of stunning rock carvings are receiving ever more attention and protection as they regain their past glory. The rudimentary wooden structure was built in the …

Repairing the past, restoring our future
1 year, 2 months ago

Repairing the past, restoring our future

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Visitors appreciate rock carvings in Baodingshan, one of the five major clusters in Dazu district, Chongqing. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Cave temple protection in Chongqing requires effort, talent and pride in rich heritage A massive array of stunning rock carvings are receiving ever more attention and protection as they regain their past glory. The rudimentary wooden structure was built in the …

Repairing the past, restoring our future
1 year, 2 months ago

Repairing the past, restoring our future

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Visitors appreciate rock carvings in Baodingshan, one of the five major clusters in Dazu district, Chongqing. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Cave temple protection in Chongqing requires effort, talent and pride in rich heritage A massive array of stunning rock carvings are receiving ever more attention and protection as they regain their past glory. The rudimentary wooden structure was built in the …

Repairing the past, restoring our future
1 year, 2 months ago

Repairing the past, restoring our future

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Visitors appreciate rock carvings in Baodingshan, one of the five major clusters in Dazu district, Chongqing. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Cave temple protection in Chongqing requires effort, talent and pride in rich heritage A massive array of stunning rock carvings are receiving ever more attention and protection as they regain their past glory. The rudimentary wooden structure was built in the …

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

Photo exhibition hopes to raise awareness on Mogao Caves

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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

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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 …

Photographer spends years documenting Chinese grotto art
1 year, 8 months ago

Photographer spends years documenting Chinese grotto art

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Maijishan Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in Tianshui city of Gansu province, on July 5, 2020. China has ample supply to satisfy his interest, as its grotto ruins, mainly scattered on the ancient Silk Road, have hundreds or even thousands of years of history. Grotto art is a treasured ancient culture, and Chinese grottoes are no exception. Mainly focusing …

Photographer spends years documenting Chinese grotto art
1 year, 8 months ago

Photographer spends years documenting Chinese grotto art

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Maijishan Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in Tianshui city of Gansu province, on July 5, 2020. China has ample supply to satisfy his interest, as its grotto ruins, mainly scattered on the ancient Silk Road, have hundreds or even thousands of years of history. Grotto art is a treasured ancient culture, and Chinese grottoes are no exception. Mainly focusing …

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

Dunhuang's ancient beauty shared in digital form

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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 …

Yungang Grottoes saved for the nation and people to enjoy for years to come
2 years, 6 months ago

Yungang Grottoes saved for the nation and people to enjoy for years to come

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Crowds of people admire a full-sized replica of Yungang's relics at a gallery in Shanghai earlier last year, which was made with 3D-printing technologies. XUAN LIN/FOR CHINA DAILY Experts and skilled workers applying scientific methods to protect treasure trove of Buddhist art Preserving a historical and cultural heritage site that was created more than 1,500 years ago would be a …

Yungang Grottoes saved for the nation and people to enjoy for years to come
2 years, 6 months ago

Yungang Grottoes saved for the nation and people to enjoy for years to come

China Daily  

Crowds of people admire a full-sized replica of Yungang's relics at a gallery in Shanghai earlier last year, which was made with 3D-printing technologies. XUAN LIN/FOR CHINA DAILY Experts and skilled workers applying scientific methods to protect treasure trove of Buddhist art Preserving a historical and cultural heritage site that was created more than 1,500 years ago would be a …

Evidence of ancestral wanderers carving out civilization along the ancient Silk Road is all across China
2 years, 7 months ago

Evidence of ancestral wanderers carving out civilization along the ancient Silk Road is all across China

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Grotto temples, which are religious niches or caves carved into mountains or rock, were introduced to China along the Silk Road in the 3rd century and, over the course of the following millennium, gradually became a fundamental form of Chinese Buddhist art. 2 Mogao Caves, Gansu province This complex of 492 extant caves, with their exquisite murals and statues dating …

Protecting Yungang a generational task
2 years, 7 months ago

Protecting Yungang a generational task

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A statue in Grotto 5 of the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province. The 1,500-year-old site is one of three most famous Buddhist grottoes in country Staff at the Yungang Grottoes Academy have been busy conducting regular maintenance at the site in Datong, Shanxi province. Grotto 5, which contains some 2,300 Buddhist statues, is 17.4 meters high and 18.7 meters …

Protecting Yungang a generational task
2 years, 7 months ago

Protecting Yungang a generational task

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A statue in Grotto 5 of the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi province. The 1,500-year-old site is one of three most famous Buddhist grottoes in country Staff at the Yungang Grottoes Academy have been busy conducting regular maintenance at the site in Datong, Shanxi province. Grotto 5, which contains some 2,300 Buddhist statues, is 17.4 meters high and 18.7 meters …

Digitalization of 1600-yr-old grottoes completed in China's Gansu
3 years, 3 months ago

Digitalization of 1600-yr-old grottoes completed in China's Gansu

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Jinta Temple Grottoes, famous for the unique high relief sculptures with the pattern of flying apsaras, include more than 200 colored sculptures as well as murals spanning a total of over 500 square meters. The digitalization of 1600-year-old Jinta Temple Grottoes in the city of Zhangye, Northwest China's Gansu province, has been completed, local authorities said Wednesday. Launched in June, …

Restoration of ancient grottoes begins in China's Gansu
3 years, 3 months ago

Restoration of ancient grottoes begins in China's Gansu

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The Mati Temple Grottoes cover about 100 square kilometers in Sunan, a Yugu ethnic autonomous county 600 kilometers from Gansu's provincial capital Lanzhou. Northwest China's Gansu province has launched a restoration project in a key part of the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye city, a national key cultural relic protection site, local authorities said. The work is focused on one …

Dunhuang art goes digital
3 years, 4 months ago

Dunhuang art goes digital

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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 …

Yellow River civilization
3 years, 6 months ago

Yellow River civilization

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Stone statues in the Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu, Shandong province. ・ Tianti Mountain Grottoes Located in Wuwei in Gansu province, it was built in Northern Liang of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,600 years. ・ Yungang Grottoes The grottoes feature 252 caves and 51,000 statues in Datong, Shanxi …

Yellow River civilization
3 years, 6 months ago

Yellow River civilization

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Stone statues in the Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu, Shandong province. ・ Tianti Mountain Grottoes Located in Wuwei in Gansu province, it was built in Northern Liang of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,600 years. ・ Yungang Grottoes The grottoes feature 252 caves and 51,000 statues in Datong, Shanxi …

Digital technologies used to rebuild 1,500-year-old grottoes in virtual world
3 years, 7 months ago

Digital technologies used to rebuild 1,500-year-old grottoes in virtual world

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The Yungang Grottoes boast 45 major caves and over 59,000 statues in the city of Datong, North China's Shanxi province. Various technologies have been adopted to digitize the 1,500-year-old Yungang Grottoes in Datong, North China's Shanxi province, to permanently preserve the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Using three-dimensional laser scanning and multiplanar reconstruction, the Yungang Grottoes Research Institute is working to …

Past resonates at ancient site on Silk Road
3 years, 10 months ago

Past resonates at ancient site on Silk Road

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Tourists visit the Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site with numerous ancient murals and Buddhist statues, in Dunhuang, Gansu province. In the Dunhuang grottoes and surrounding areas in Gansu province, visitors can hear voices from the dust and sample the flavors of life long ago Bumping one's way slowly on the back of a camel across the desert of …

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

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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 …

Restoration of Buddhist grotto relics completed in NW China
4 years, 1 month ago

Restoration of Buddhist grotto relics completed in NW China

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Located about 50 km south of the city of Wuwei in Northwest China's Gansu province, the Tianti Mountain Grottoes were first built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The restoration work on relocated frescos and colored statues from the Tianti Mountain Grottoes, some of China's earliest, has been completed, local authorities said on Friday. Located about 50 km south of the …

Restoration of Buddhist grotto relics completed in NW China
4 years, 1 month ago

Restoration of Buddhist grotto relics completed in NW China

China Daily  

Located about 50 km south of the city of Wuwei in Northwest China's Gansu province, the Tianti Mountain Grottoes were first built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The restoration work on relocated frescos and colored statues from the Tianti Mountain Grottoes, some of China's earliest, has been completed, local authorities said on Friday. Located about 50 km south of the …

Yungang Grottoes to complete digital scanning in 5 years
4 years, 1 month ago

Yungang Grottoes to complete digital scanning in 5 years

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The Yungang Grottoes, located in the city of Datong, Shanxi province, has 45 major caves and more than 59,000 stone statues. China's Yungang Grottoes will complete the scanning of all its caves in five years, paving the way for the creation of digital versions that can withstand weathering and other real-world damage. So far, the UNESCO World Heritage Site in …

Caps on number of visitors to be implemented at grotto temple sites
4 years, 1 month ago

Caps on number of visitors to be implemented at grotto temple sites

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UNESCO World Heritage site Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi province is an outstanding example of Chinese grotto temples. The National Cultural Heritage Administration and Ministry of Culture and Tourism jointly released an announcement last week demanding administrations of all ancient grotto temple sites across the country to set caps on the number of daily visits to ensure longevity of such cultural …

Caps on number of visitors to be implemented at grotto temple sites
4 years, 1 month ago

Caps on number of visitors to be implemented at grotto temple sites

China Daily  

UNESCO World Heritage site Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi province is an outstanding example of Chinese grotto temples. The National Cultural Heritage Administration and Ministry of Culture and Tourism jointly released an announcement last week demanding administrations of all ancient grotto temple sites across the country to set caps on the number of daily visits to ensure longevity of such cultural …

Restoration of Aerzhai Grottoes achieves great progress
4 years, 2 months ago

Restoration of Aerzhai Grottoes achieves great progress

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An exquisite mural at Aerzhai Grottoes Ten caves with murals have been restored as part of the restoration work of the Aerzhai Grottoes, according to information released by the Aerzhai Grottoes Research Institute on Oct 8. Aerzhai Grottoes is located in Otog Banner of Ordos city, in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Dunhuang, in Northwest China's Gansu province, is …

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