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　　Dear tourists

　　hello everyone!

　　Hello, friends. I'm today's tour guide. Now I'd like to take you to visitthe world famous Buddhist art treasure house - Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. TheMogao Grottoes are 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang city. I will use thistime to make a brief introduction to the Mogao Grottoes.

　　Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang and YungangGrottoes in Datong are known as the three major Grottoes in China. Theexcavation of Mogao Grottoes is 120__ years earlier than Longmen Grottoes and 94years earlier than Yungang Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes have been built for along time. It is well-known for its large-scale architecture, large number ofmurals, large number of statues and complete preservation, and its profoundartistic value. Tourists come one after another in a year, which plays animportant role in promoting cultural exchanges, spreading theories, carryingforward national art and carrying out patriotic education. The mural art ofMogao Grottoes is not found in Longmen Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes, which cannot be compared with any grotto temple in the world. It is the essence of MogaoGrottoes art. If the 45000 square meters of murals are connected one by one, itwill be as long as 25 kilometers. If we want to put these murals on theroadside, it can form a long gallery from the urban area to the Mogao Grottoes.With its grand scale, wide range of subjects and exquisite art, it is called "abig Gallery" by Japanese scholars and "a library on the wall" by Frenchscholars. Just as a scholar said after seeing the Mogao Grottoes: "to see theLihuang Grottoes is to see the ancient civilization of the world.".

　　Mogao Grottoes, backed by Mingsha mountain and facing Sanwei peak, has atotal length of more than 1600 meters from north to south. There are 492existing caves with different sizes, scattered up and down, and densely coveredwith cliffs. Each cave has vivid statues, graceful flying sky, exquisite muralsand exquisite tiles, forming a Buddhist world full of religious atmosphere. TheMogao Grottoes were built in 366 ad, the second year of Jianyuan reign of thepre Qin Dynasty. Now I'm going to visit the caves. First of all, we'll visit thefamous "Sutra cave". This cave is located on the north side of the corridor ofsystem engineering cave No. 17. It was originally the "shadow cave" of monkTonghong in the late Tang Dynasty, which is recorded in the inscription. One dayin may 1920__, Wang Yuanlu, a Taoist who was in charge of the Mogao Grottoes,opened the "Sutra cave" which had been secret for more than 100 years by chance.These precious cultural relics finally came to light. However, the corruption ofthe Qing Dynasty and the ignorance of Wang Yuanlu made these precious culturalrelics plundered and robbed by imperialists. In 1920x, obrucchev of CzaristRussia came to the Mogao Grottoes and used six bags of daily necessities as baitto defraud a number of cultural relics. In 1920x, Stein, an Englishman, robbedmore than 10000 volumes with only a few dozen pieces of horseshoe silver. At thesame time, there are more than 500 Buddhist embroidery and paintings, which arenow stored in the British Museum. In 1920x, birch, a Frenchman, stole more than6000 volumes of cultural relics, which are now stored in the French NationalLibrary and the gimme Museum in Paris. In October 1920__, Koichiro Yoshikawa andjujujuchao of the otaku expedition stole more than 900 volumes. It was not until1920x that the Qing government transported the remains to Beijing and collectedthem in the Beijing Library. Many cultural relics were stolen, damaged and lostduring transportation and after transportation to Beijing, which is aninestimable loss in the history of Chinese archaeology. The contents of thesedocuments found in "zangjing cave" include religious classics and worldly desiredocuments written in various languages. They involve many subjects and areimportant materials for the study of ancient religion, politics, economy,military and culture. After decades of research by scholars at home and abroad,they have developed a new and popular subject Dunhuang studies.

　　Well, I'll introduce it here. The charm of this kind of art treasure needsto be realized by yourself. I hope you can gain your own insights in theappreciation!