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　　Ladies and gentlemen:

　　Hi, everybody. Now I take you to visit the world famous buddhist art treasure house, dunhuang mogao grottoes. The mogao grottoes from 25 km southeast of dunhuang city, I use this time, just the mogao grottoes do a simple introduction first.

　　The mogao grottoes in dunhuang and luoyang longmen grottoes, the datong yungang grottoes and called China's three major grottoes. The mogao grottoes of digging than 128 years before the longmen grottoes, yungang grottoes as early as 94. The mogao grottoes in it to create s. Construction scale, the large number of murals and statues of modelling, the intact, is famous for its extensive and profound world of its artistic value, enjoys a good reputation both at home and abroad. Visitors a year come, an endless stream, to promote cultural exchanges, communication theory, carry forward the national art, patriotism education played a decisive role. The mogao grottoes mural art was not longmen, yungang grottoes, is unmatched by any cave temples all over the world, it is the essence of art of the mogao grottoes. If the 45000 square meters of murals every link will be up to 25 kilometers, want to put these murals which side of the road, can constitute a from downtown to the mogao grottoes of a long gallery. Its epic scale, the subject of extensive, exquisite art, by Japanese scholars call it "a big gallery"; French scholars call it "the library" on the wall; As a scholar sigh with emotion after seeing the mogao grottoes of say: "saw the greatest grottoes is to see the ancient civilizations of the world".

　　A high wat, commonly known as the thousand-buddha grottoes, the digital "thousand" here refers to the number of specific, but refers to a lot of, because there are many buddhist grotto statues, murals, so commonly known as the "thousand-buddha grottoes". The mogao grottoes the name first appeared in the sui dynasty grotto cave no. 423 words, the origin of its name, unable to agree, generally there are three: first, the mean high fe wat named digging in the high places of the desert, "desert" in the ancient Chinese "desert" and "the mogao grottoes" is "mo" tongjia characters; Said the other is from published documents and unearthed many literature in the tang dynasty, tang dynasty dunhuang XianJing sand states there are "desert mountains", "desert observed," said, according to this research, the singing in the sui and tang dynasties, also known as desert mountains, so will cave in township, near name; A third is that in Sanskrit "moga" voice of means of relief, "moga" is Sanskrit transliteration.

　　Because dunhuang since jun, is a place where many ethnic han Chinese and gathered mixed and intersection here, the fusion of the national culture; Dunhuang is west out of the western regions, east into the central plains choke points, since ancient times, people believe in Buddhism, where the officer to collectors, nobility, transformation, and poor people out of the silver to open wat, sculpture, painting as a home to make offerings to the Buddha and bodhisattvas; And from the silk road merchants, angel, monks, etc in order to thank you on his peace processes the taklamakan desert, or take the bliss, into the investment of the kingdom of heaven after death. So on the singing of the cliffs, grottoes constantly emerging, big and small.