Dunhuang, Dunhuang!
"If you only go to one place in Gansu, it must be !"(<< Dunhuang Tibetan antelope" "language) in July 2003 from Xinjiang way back, due to time and really happens can only be a place to stay in Gansu, I Sure enough, the choice of not hesitate to Dunhuang.
Liuyuan station when the train arrived in the evening already, and to Dunhuang City in more than 100 kilometers of the road, and we basically spent in the dark.
Have gone through so many places are now fewer and fewer "spots," let me excited, but the feet Dunhuang moment, I felt a little excitement, although the time has nothing to see. Dunhuang, previously had been heard about her too much.
Mingsha hot feet feeling as if it remains less clear. Although we first went to Mingsha early in the morning, but the sun is out, we walk barefoot on the sand can not bear. Wan Qiannian do not understand is why, no matter how kind people are stepped on, or be able to towering sand hills, stand tall, poly Shacheng Shan. And the foot of the Crescent Moon Spring is an increasingly see small, has grown from a small crescent into a large crescent moon, I'm sure it will one day disappear. Mountain spring next to the small temple that looks very new, and in the mountains to see is very clear and did not arouse me in. desire. Can not help but Tuo Lexie, barefoot climb the sand hill, mountain is not high, but the sand a foot would go visit the subsidence, it can be said foot, sand Ju, a small sand dune to climb my asthma Shi Shi, but is also almost collapse nausea companion . The name is said to Mingsha sand when the whereabouts of sounds derived from the past. Looking at the mountain opposite the larger dunes, fear Italy Dunsheng for the first time such a true feeling of the desert, film and television lens in the desert looks so gentle, the people in the Sand Sea at Risk always safe to come out today, learned that It was only literary and artistic works inside the desert, the former feeling is ridiculous, so, for the desert adventure is full of people who have tremendous respect. Maybe if I scraped the desert, one can see the towering sand dunes that had been prepared to give up. Sha Shan Li Guangxing skin glass of water price Ji Shibu away five times in the urban areas, they are still doing booming business. Under the sun, from the sand jump straight down the hill after the panic, that glass of ice water is absolutely heavenly manna, which went straight Heart and drinking is still food for thought. But also because of the illusion of the moment, the day we Dunhuang specialties Li Guangxing produced ice is a drink drink, drink drink no less than the last, nausea had.
According to legend, the total hidden buried treasures of the desert. The same is true in fact, we are surrounded by the Gobi desert, the insight into the treasures of the earth-shaking, in fact, is also the insight of a myth.
Mogao Grottoes is so the past is not valued, even in a few decades ago, opened the driver of car we have a child can play inside, baked something to eat, and now the protection is to unreasonable levels. We can only look at a dozen caves with the instructors, instructors carried a key, a torch to open the cave on which cave pai lou, finish on the lock. Usually does not allow light inside the cave. That tens of thousands of pieces of treasures hidden in the wall hole seemed so small, so do not stand out, feeling really do not deserve that if those treasures we really start to be treated as junk to. There is an argument inside the so-called treasure is Cangjing Dong thousand years ago people here living in the cultural and artistic exercises, or draft, scrap, debris was thrown as a hole in the wall. I remember that time in the classroom to hear the teachers talk about cultural history of this point of view when introducing feel very fresh, very surprised, incredibly, in fact, a lot of people to support this view. I can not help feeling, really rubbish will become a precious possession for a thousand years?
Don, ancient container, Huang who is also brilliant, perhaps thousands of years ago an ancestor to Dunhuang in the name of the time since, has predicted that she would later contain the glory! Dunhuang Mogao Caves - the art treasures of human culture, chiselling lasted for hundreds of years, but mainly written in the Tang. Datang is the world's most powerful country, but also the history of human culture and arts development as a peak period of Tang Dynasty poetry is still a humanity on a peak, after the world no one can too. Mogao Grottoes is regarded by many glorious achievements of human culture and the arts freeze-frame, to enable her dust years later in a completely different modern society brought to light, from the Hunxiong dignified statues, we also clearly see the Tang Dynasty of the weather, from their an air of calm and deep, we feel the Chinese nation's mind, so, years ago Qing Wu flying flying repeatedly appears in the modern art scene, while incredible playing the guitar, but it overlooks the city center of Dunhuang has become a city standard.
However, the discovery of the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, but it is the weakest in China since the Tang dynasty, when the arrangements might be somewhere in heaven bar. As Chen Ke said, the discovery of the history of the Mogao Grottoes is the sad history of Chinese culture. However, in the war-torn China at that time, government incompetence, rampant official corruption, a weak national stupidity of ignorance, if a large number of treasures Mogao Grottoes is not for foreign robbers snatched away, but remain in the country, then we might have Mogao Grottoes treasures even see do not see is also not fully known.
That afternoon, under the scorching sun, we went straight to Jade Gate. More than 100 kilometers road, half are across a large margin in the boundless Gobi. Looking around us, we often see the horizon and that one end of a "fuzzy lake," in fact it is steamed up on the ground, water vapor, well looked produced an illusion. How many people traveling in the desert is to be confused but it is catching it, and ultimately lost lives can never realize in the past on the road.
Now the road to the Jade Gate has been a lot better than before, there is a private repair of the asphalt road, the road flanked on both sides dug deep trenches, has been to prevent a car from the side to escape up around Mai Menpiao. It is inconceivable that if a prestigious history of the name off, and today only a yellow residue Huan blanket being thrown on a pile of rammed earth, just being surrounded bars to show up was quite unusual. Road next to the river there is a little shallow, so the above, and will have some green grass and algae. It was flowing down the snow in Qilian Mountains, the river is the Tang Dynasty, Shule heavy troop carriers? . Early August afternoon is not one can stay on the desert, though it still point cloud the sky. I can only get off the mound in the square around the turn of the circle immediately hid the car.
Even so the Millennium, yumenguan still not wait until spring, even before there are also signs of life here, have disappeared. In fact, probably long before I came to know that I can only see a pile of earth-hwan, but I still have to come, I chartered ran in the hot sun for several hours, look at a handful of the old earth, that is why? That is because I want to know that the rhythm of Datang wits where generals, the soldiers look like place to live, to feel their pride and tragic, would like to see the setting sun outside the Jade Gate and listen to the voice of armored cavalry. I would like to look at the Tang Dynasty style, look for the footprints of the Silk Road, listening to the Qiangdi of charm, even though I still do not know the degree of Qiangdi spring is unknown.
In fact, more than Dunhuang, Jade Gate, from the Central Plains a Xi'an, Tianshui along the way, Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Jiayuguan until such poetry in the Tang Han-li familiar names behind all my soul pull Dream department areas. Look these names, we can let you create numerous association, to know its origins and the story behind it there must be a string. Prior to this time had specifically come out at home, "Quan Tang Shi selected" to re-read those poems, poems bent feelings Smoke in the desert northwest of the mood to see Jiayuguan outside the blood-setting sun. Walking on the road, just like entering a time tunnel and into an armored cavalry rate historical picture of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Ning to do in that centurion, wins as a scholar of the era, the number of night dance banner, MA Ming night, Jin Ge cavalry out with big, Yan Yin Le Dan lying battlefield. Today, wine remains the same, Magic Cup is also everywhere, although I do not know true or false. Although Sunset round round again and again, while the Smoke in the desert is no longer, when the moon is still out of Qin Tian Shan, but also shines with the number of General Yamashita's Treasure of the Sierra? Han Guan outside under the desert, but also the number of Yukio buried the bones of the dead, after all, a few people back to the ancient expedition. Closer look on the sand outside the Jade Gate, but not know it from the person who carries the number of episodes Qinglei homesick.
Thousand years of Yang Guan is still sung, the millennium is still Tuoling Sheng Qing Xiang, still filled the sand thousands of years, thousands of Dunhuang are no longer just a dream rooms. Came to Dunhuang Chinese people would be shocked, would be touched, because they arrived in their hometown, here is the Chinese people's spiritual home, cultural homes, there are Chinese soul. A lot of people thousands of miles, crossing the Gobi desert, and even across the snow-capped mountains, across the river came to Dunhuang, they come looking for their own Hometown, their roots, because they love their homes, driving them to come, is a kind of different kind of nostalgia. Perhaps every Chinese person should go to one of Dunhuang.
Another one in the evening, we left the Dunhuang. All the way on both sides by a slightly trees, crops oasis, to become a big endless desert. I can not help but remember him for us to yumenguan the words of that driver, he said that the ancient Dunhuang originally barren land of exile, and now developed to such a relationship is because of the tourism industry, he would not deny that they are ancient exile of those who future generations, but the snow Dunhuang is nourished by Qilian up a desert surrounded by large cities, are now seriously short of water, but once the water is not, and perhaps one day will be repeating the mistake Loulan city became like yumenguan waste pile wall. Dunhuang is an oasis in the desert inside her as Sand Sea in a boat, a legendary in the past, given how much of life on the road is full of loss, those who suffer hardship in hurry to get somewhere to shelter and warmth, in the future, she really will be lost in the desert do?
Is moving away from Dunhuang, I found the Gobi Desert in a clusters of pale red, delicate plants, giving the bleak in the setting sun painted a touch of the great Gobi gentle, one question, before we know it is heard so much about their names Hongliu .
Author: cgn12
