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Chapter 133 The Heartbreaking Past of Mogao Grottoes ([-] words)

"This cave is simply amazing!"

"It's truly a gem in the art world!"

"It's so spectacular from the outside, but how shocking it would be if you walked into the cave yourself!"

……

Amidst the heated discussions among the audience, the movie ended slowly.

After leaving the movie theater, Riyo Igawa was still in a trance.

"This fare is simply not worth it!"

A look of amazement appeared in Riyo Ikawa's eyes!
Ye Qiu said: "Let's go, I'll take you to see the real charm of Mogao Grottoes with your own eyes!"

Take Igawa Riyo to the place where the ferry is taken.

Then the two set off towards the scenic spot together.

……

Mogao Grottoes is about ten kilometers away from the digital exhibition hall.

Leaving the construction area, the shuttle bus headed towards a desert.

The surrounding environment is very desolate, but it can't hold up a lot of tourists, so it looks very lively.

"It's here! Mogao Grottoes!"

Riyo Ikawa couldn't wait to take out his phone to take pictures.

Ye Qiu said: "Brothers, Mogao Grottoes are limited to 6000 people per day. If you want to visit here, you must book tickets online in advance!"

"There are a few more things to pay attention to."

"The first point: You can only visit 8-10 grottoes at most at a time, and the time is 1 hour."

"Second point: When viewing the Mogao Grottoes, you are not allowed to turn on the lights of your mobile phone by yourself, as it will damage the murals. Please abide by the rules."

"Also, in case of bad weather such as rainy days or sandstorms, the caves are not open, that's about it."

……

After Ye Qiu finished speaking, the live broadcast room suddenly became uneasy.

"It's only limited to 6000 people per day? It shouldn't be hard to get tickets, right?"

"What was said upstairs is not the point. Shouldn't the point be that you can only stay for an hour?"

"Leaving in an hour? Feels a little harsh!"

"No way, the rules are like this, and some special tourist attractions are indeed like this."

……

There was a lot of discussion on the barrage.

"Ye Qiu, it seems we have to hurry up and visit."

Riyo Igawa dragged Ye Qiu into the room together.

The two climbed up the stairs and passed a stone monument.

Keep walking along the path.

That row upon row, overlapping caves.

Like a beehive embedded in a broken bank that has been hacked by a knife and an axe.

The plank road in front of the cave is winding and winding, and the towering pavilions stand tall.

The iron horse and the wind are hanging, and the momentum is magnificent.

……

Ye Qiu said: "Brothers, the Mogao Grottoes are a shining pearl of art on the ancient Silk Road."

"And it is also a three-dimensional art treasure cave that integrates architecture, sculpture, and murals, and the content is extremely rich."

"The must-see attractions also lie in the local Buddha statues and murals."

Ye Qiu finished speaking.

Go into a cave.

Those Buddha statues are either sitting or lying down, with different postures, and the murals are finely crafted and beautiful.

Ye Qiu said: "This is a nine-story building. This cave was excavated in the early Tang Dynasty. The giant Buddha in the cave is 35.5 meters high and 12 meters wide between the knees. It is the largest Buddha in Mogao Grottoes."

"The building in front of the cave is a nine-story building. It is named because it has nine floors. It was originally four floors. It was built in the late Tang Dynasty with five floors. It was rebuilt in the early Song Dynasty. The nine-story building was built in 1935."

"It has towering peaks, scattered eaves and teeth, and iron horses. It has become one of the symbols of Mogao Grottoes."

While introducing, Ye Qiu pulled into the camera.

The incomparably magnificent nine-story building is presented in front of the audience in all directions.

"35 meters!!"

"so high!!"

"Oh my god, this building is too grand!"

"I feel like I'm not as big as a slap like a statue..."

……

Ye Qiu continued to move forward.

With the constant flow of visitors, enter the cliff plank road of Mogao Grottoes.

Standing on the platform in front of the grotto and looking up, it's like walking into a beautiful palace of art.

Ye Qiudao: "This is a folded three-story building. It was built during the Guangxu period. Taoist Wang presided over the construction. Taoist Wang discovered the Rizangjing Cave on the north side of the corridor in Cave 16. It is one of the few caves within a cave."

Ye Qiu controls the drone and looks around the caves of Mogao Grottoes. There are paintings of Buddha, flying Apsaras, Jiyue, fairies, etc. everywhere, and there are sitting statues as high as nine floors.

There are also small bodhisattvas of more than ten centimeters in number and in different shapes.

Sweeping in all directions, the audience watched with enthusiasm.

"Oh my god, this is really fake!"

"This is the Mogao Grottoes, the cultural treasures of the world!"

"It's really shocking!"

……

As for Riyo Ikawa, she followed behind her and took pictures silently.

In this way, the two continued to move forward.

In front of an attic, many tourists gathered.

All of them are taking pictures.

"Where is this?"

"It looks very lively."

"There are the most people here, and the attractions must be particularly awesome."

……

Glancing at the barrage, Ye Qiu explained: "This is the Sutra Pavilion, and the story about it has to start with a Taoist priest."

"In 1900, Wang Yuanzhuan, a Taoist priest who lived in the Mogao Grottoes, carried out a large-scale cleaning in order to convert some caves that had been abandoned for a long time into Taoist temples.

"When he was cleaning Cave 16, he accidentally discovered a small door on the wall of the north corridor.

"After opening, a square cave chamber with a length and width of 2.6 meters and a height of 3 meters appeared."

"There are more than 4 pieces of historical documents and paper paintings, silk paintings, embroidery and other cultural relics from the 11th century to the 5th century, that is, from the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Northern Song Dynasty. This is the famous "Scripture Cave."

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The audience was extremely surprised.

"The discovery of the scripture cave turned out to be accidental?"

"The luck of this little Taoist is no one else."

"That's right. I just wanted to sweep the floor, but who knew I would find such an important treasure."

"It can only be said that sometimes, fate is so magical!"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Ye Qiu couldn't help saying: "In fact, the most precious things in Mogao Grottoes are not only the thousand sculptures, the Wanping Wall, but also the books in front of us, maybe these books are even more precious.

Ikawa Riyu couldn't help asking: "What, books are the most precious?"

This time, the audience didn't understand either.

Are these murals and Buddha statues not more precious than books?

Ye Qiu said, "During the course of history, paintings and calligraphy may have been imitated by later generations, and history books may have been revised by later generations. Most of the truth has been lost in the spread of history."

"But the history books left by Mogao Grottoes are not. They are too clear, detailed, and the records are very true."

"If there are no such documents from Mogao Grottoes, if we want to read the history of Tubo now, we can only read a few short pages of biography."

"If there were no Dunhuang Grottoes, the murals, paintings and calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty would be blank forever due to the loss and damage during the Five Dynasties period."

"We will never know the peace and prosperity and etiquette recorded in the history books."

……

After hearing what Ye Qiu said, the audience fell into silence.

Ye Qiu is right...

Why is history passed on, the most important carrier of which is not books?

If there are no books and written records, many things in ancient times will be impossible to study.

Because, we can see the importance of books.

Sudden.

Ye Qiu said seriously: "It's just a pity that the most important things of Mogao Grottoes have all been spread abroad."

"The best scriptures are in the United States, and the best cultural relics are in the Three Kingdoms."

"At present, all the things in Mogao Grottoes are in an extremely scattered state."

Hearing this, all the audience couldn't help being stunned.

"No!"

"The best things are all abroad!"

"Now the things in Mogao Grottoes are all scattered??"

Riyo Igawa also had an unbelievable expression.

"Ye Qiu, what's going on??"

"Why are the best things abroad?"

Riyo Igawa asked.

Ye Qiu said, "Of course it's because something happened..."

……

Having said this, Ye Qiu's tone paused.

However, there was an extremely short pause, and the audience in the live broadcast room was impetuous.

"My reader is super handsome: I tipped Huya No. [-] and left a message: anchor, please continue talking!"

"Liu Shui Wuhen: Donated ten planes and left a message: Brother Qiu said, what is it because of?"

"An old Chinese doctor in South China: Donated a hundred blood bottles and left a message: Come on, I'm listening!"

……

"Hahaha, old Chinese doctor, it's you again!"

"Good guy, the old Chinese doctor is about to become the emperor of the live broadcast room!"

"From the first day I watched the live broadcast to now, I often see this old Chinese doctor bubbling."

"Old Chinese medicine practitioner, brother Qiu's big fan!"

...

The barrage continued to discuss.

At this moment, Ye Qiu continued with a smile: "Didn't I mention a little Taoist priest earlier, do you still remember?"

"Of course I remember!"

"Is it the Taoist priest who discovered the Sutra Pavilion?"

"What does this have to do with priests?"

The eyes of the audience were full of puzzlement.

Ye Qiu looked at the barrage: "Of course it has something to do with it."

"Because he opened a grotto by mistake, and found the Mogao Grottoes, which shocked the world."

"The scene in front of him made him restless for a long time. He found a large number of caves inside. There are many exquisite murals and Buddha statues on the walls of the caves."

"However, he is only a Taoist priest after all, and he doesn't have much interest in these things. He only knows that he may have found an ancient Buddhist holy place."

"In order to convert part of the cave into a Taoist temple, Wang Yuanlu cleaned the Mogao Grottoes, and during the cleaning process, Wang Yuanlu discovered the Buddhist scripture cave that shocked the world."

"There are countless cultural relics in the scripture cave. There are more than 5 ancient books in it, including not only Buddhist scriptures, but also many precious ancient documents."

"Even though Wang Yuanlu's education level is not high, he still knows the importance of these cultural relics in front of him, so he quickly found the local gentry, reached a consensus, reported the matter, and protected these scroll murals."

Hearing this, the audience was puzzled.

"Isn't that a good thing?"

"The little Taoist of feelings is a good man."

"In this case, why are important cultural relics still lost?"

Riyu Igawa also asked: "Ye Qiu, what happened next, please continue."

Ye Qiu said indifferently: "Some viewers said that the priest is a good person. Indeed, his original intention is correct."

"However, the cruel thing is that the Qing government at that time was extremely corrupt and exhausted from dealing with various problems, and had no time to care about a cultural discovery in a distant place."

"And the local officials are stupid and dark. Not only do they not pay attention to the Mogao Grottoes, but they also embezzle all the protection funds that have been hard-won."

"Under such circumstances, Wang Yuanlu made efforts to raise funds for simple repair and protection of Mogao Grottoes."

"It's just that Wang Yuanlu is just a Taoist priest who became a monk halfway. Facing the swarm of greedy people, Wang Yuanlu got lost."

……

"In 1907, Stein, an archaeologist from the Eagle Kingdom, came to the Dunhuang Scripture Cave."

"On the pretext of helping Wang Yuanlu repair the Taoist temple, he tricked Taoist priest Wang into the scripture cave. He spent 200 taels of silver and took away 24 boxes of manuscripts and 5 boxes of artwork."

"And most of these collections have been donated to the British Museum, about 1.37 pieces."

"So when you visit the British Museum, you don't have to marvel at why there are so many works of art in it. At that time, they were all stolen from China."

heard here.

The audience were all shocked.

Some were emotionally extreme, even clenched their fists, their eyes were red.

"What shitty archaeologist! This is clearly a liar, rubbish!"

"Damn, I'm so angry!"

"The treasure of our country turned out to be the treasure of other countries??"

Most of the audience are young people who can tell right from wrong and know how to be patriotic.

As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help it on the spot.

……

"Hey!"

At this time, Ye Qiu also sighed deeply: "If it's just this time for Eagle Country, then it's okay to say that the loss is not the biggest."

"The point is, since then, it has been out of control."

"In 1905, Obruchev of Tsarist Russia came to the Mogao Grottoes and used six packs of daily necessities as bait to defraud—a batch of cultural relics."

"In 1907, Stein, a native of Eagleland, used only dozens of pieces of horseshoe silver to rob more than 1 scrolls, as well as more than 500 Buddhist embroidery and paintings, which are now in the British Museum."

"In 1908, the Frenchman Pelliot stole more than 6000 volumes of cultural relics, which are now hidden in the French National Library and the Guimet Museum in Paris."

"In addition, due to the incompetence of the Qing Dynasty, cultural relics were stolen, damaged, and lost again and again on the way to transport the remaining cultural relics that were looted in 1910."

"Also, in 1940, when Zhang Daqian was tracing the murals here, he found that some murals had two layers, inside and outside, so he removed the outer layer to see the inner layer. There were more than 30 murals stripped by Zhang Daqian. All of these caused An incalculable loss in the archaeological history of Huaguo."

In one breath, Ye Qiu said everything he knew.

At this moment, all the audience's eyes are tearing apart.

If the Eagle Kingdom's first deception just made everyone feel angry.

At this moment, the emotions of all the audience broke out, and they were furious!

"This group of people, really damn it!!"

"This group of people is so disgusting!!"

"Three-quarters of the important treasures in the entire Mogao Grottoes are all abroad??"

"Made, it's hard to imagine how much the loss of Mogao Grottoes is!!"

……

At this moment, Riyo Igawa also felt very angry.

Everyone has deep patriotism in their hearts.

Thinking of so many things, and the treasures that originally belonged to the country of Hua being left outside, Igawa Riyu couldn't help feeling angry.

"What happened later? How did the Mogao Grottoes become like this after going through the devastation?"

Riyo Ikawa asked again.

(End of this chapter)