Safeguarding the cultural landscape
3 months, 1 week ago

Safeguarding the cultural landscape

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The Nankan cliff statues in Bazhong, Sichuan province, from the Tang Dynasty. Forum highlights remarkable progress in conserving cave temples, report Wang Ru in Dunhuang, Gansu province, and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou. Together, they form cave temples — a special cultural landscape embodying the reverence of ancient people for divine blessings. China boasts many dazzling cave temples, including the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province; Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing; the Longmen Grottoes in Henan province; and the Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi province — all UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Through more than seven decades of efforts, the major risks of China's important cave temples have been eradicated, says Guan Qiang, deputy director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration at the 2024 International Forum on Cave Temple Conservation.

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Safeguarding the cultural landscape
3 months, 1 week ago

Safeguarding the cultural landscape

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Feng Wei's team conducts inspections of caves in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, with AI technology. According to Song Xinchao, chairman of the Chinese National Committee for the International Council on Monuments and Sites, there are currently 5,986 cave temples and cliff statues in China, occupying 24.5 percent of the immovable stone carving cultural heritage sites across the country. He says besides …

Safeguarding the cultural landscape
3 months, 1 week ago

Safeguarding the cultural landscape

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Cave temples were highlighted at the 2024 International Forum on Cave Temple Conservation in Dunhuang, Gansu province, in August. Protection is the key A highlight of Sichuan's protection efforts, according to Pu Xin, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration, is the thousand-Buddha statues on a cliff of Wolong Mountain in Mianyang, Sichuan, which is among the first …

Safeguarding the cultural landscape
3 months, 1 week ago

Safeguarding the cultural landscape

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A heavenly king stone carving at the Pilu Cave in Anyue county, Ziyang, Sichuan, from the Song Dynasty. For example, Feng Wei, a computer science professor at Tianjin University, introduced the application of artificial intelligence in inspecting minor changes in cave temples, a significant step in preventive conservation. Feng and his team then studied the timely detection of minor changes …

Safeguarding the cultural landscape
3 months, 1 week ago

Safeguarding the cultural landscape

China Daily  

The Nankan cliff statues in Bazhong, Sichuan province, from the Tang Dynasty. Forum highlights remarkable progress in conserving cave temples, report Wang Ru in Dunhuang, Gansu province, and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou. Together, they form cave temples — a special cultural landscape embodying the reverence of ancient people for divine blessings. China boasts many dazzling cave temples, including the Mogao …

Safeguarding the cultural landscape
3 months, 1 week ago

Safeguarding the cultural landscape

China Daily  

The Nankan cliff statues in Bazhong, Sichuan province, from the Tang Dynasty. Forum highlights remarkable progress in conserving cave temples, report Wang Ru in Dunhuang, Gansu province, and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou. Together, they form cave temples — a special cultural landscape embodying the reverence of ancient people for divine blessings. China boasts many dazzling cave temples, including the Mogao …

Gansu forum focusing on grotto studies
4 months ago

Gansu forum focusing on grotto studies

China Daily  

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

China Daily  

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 …

Climate complicates heritage preservation
1 year, 3 months ago

Climate complicates heritage preservation

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Digitization project in Cave 148 of Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province. Shi Jiazhen, a veteran archaeologist and director of the Longmen Grottoes Research Academy, shares experience from the UNESCO World Heritage Site. The contemporary preservation of cave temples not only requires the integration of traditional craftsmanship and modern high-tech methods, but also demands practitioners possess both scientific research and …

Cave treasures saved
2 years ago

Cave treasures saved

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Mati Temple complex finalizes digitization project to preserve and research grottoes, Fang Aiqing and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou report. A digitization project of the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye, Northwest China's Gansu province, that aims at high-fidelity preservation of its grottoes was completed recently, according to the city's cultural relics preservation office. Launched in June last year, the project, with …

Cave treasures saved
2 years ago

Cave treasures saved

China Daily  

Mati Temple complex finalizes digitization project to preserve and research grottoes, Fang Aiqing and Ma Jingna in Lanzhou report. A digitization project of the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye, Northwest China's Gansu province, that aims at high-fidelity preservation of its grottoes was completed recently, according to the city's cultural relics preservation office. Launched in June last year, the project, with …

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 …

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