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Cangjing Cave

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Open today at 8:30-18:00
Recommended sightseeing time:20-30 minutes
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Inside the Mogao Grottoes at Dunhuang 110, Dunhuang City, JiuquanMap
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Tibetan Jingdong is the popular name of Mogao Grottoes 17. This cave was originally built in the five years (851) of Tang Xuanzong University, and was a shadow cave of the monks in Hexi at that time. Around the 11th century, Xixia ruled Dunhuang period, before the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty occupied Dunhuang, the monks of Mogao Grottoes, considering the disaster of war, so they sealed the scriptures, documents, archives and Buddha statues preserved in the temples throughout the ages, and then built a wall outside. And painted murals to hide people's ears. After the monks also fled the war difficulties, the cave was decadent, the years were deep, and the cave was silted by the wind and sand, so claustrophobic for nearly 800 years. Qingguangxu 26 years (1900), Mogao Grottoes Daoshi Wang Yuanxu, the rate of people "drain three layers of cave sand with running water", the secret room has been in the world, and it is called "Tibetan Jingdong". The Tibetan Jingdong has unearthed the largest literature in Dunhuang's legacy, especially the icing on the cake of the famous historical and cultural city. It has also become an important data from the East Han Dynasty, the Central Jing two Jin Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, the Liang Dynasty, the Beizhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the fifth Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty, the Xixia Dynasty, the Xixia Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty, covering the civilizations of each dynasty. Professor Jiang Liangfu, a Dunhuang scientist, believes that "the whole Chinese culture is manifested in the Dunhuang volume". First of all, the important value of Dunhuang's legacy is the gold stone scientist Ye Changyi of China. In "Yushi", he not only recorded the stone of Mogao Grottoes, but also made a quite unique explanation of Dunhuang's legacy. The cave has discovered tens of thousands of ancient Buddhist scriptures, Taoist scriptures and secular instruments, which are valuable documents for the development of academic culture in China for nearly two thousand years. The accumulation of history has finally become the treasure of the future generations, which is a great blessing for Chinese academics and world academics.

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