Open Traveler: Culture Invasion Parallel Blue Star

Chapter 105 Monkey King on the Murals of Mogao Grottoes!

In front of a cliff, Lin Xuan could only sigh: "It's still different from Lan Xing Di Xing in history."

In this uninhabited mountain wasteland, it was hard for An Luyao to imagine that Dunhuang in the parallel world was a super developed place.

"Tell me the story of Dunhuang?"

Lin Xuan thought for a while, and said, "In fact, the emergence of Dunhuang and the Silk Road are two in one, and they are inseparable."

"In ancient times, when going from the Hetao area to the Western Regions, ten thousand miles away, ten teams went out, and five teams came back."

"Whether I can come back alive every time is still unknown."

"At that time, there were two roads to go to the Western Regions, one was Nanmo, from Dunhuang to Yangguan."

"There is a poem in the ancients that says, 'Advise you to drink a glass of wine, and you will have no old friends when you leave Yangguan in the west.'"

"The other route is the northern route, which is the route from Yujiaguan to Hami, and Blue Star is taking such a route."

An Luyao understood after hearing this: "So, it's impossible for Blue Star to have Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes?"

Lin Xuan nodded: "On the Silk Road, ten people go out and five people go back. There is only one thing that can support a large number of merchants to continue taking risks, and that is money."

"Among the merchants who went to the Western Regions, many have faith, either Taoism or Buddha."

"Therefore, before leaving, someone dug Buddha statues on the rocks in Dunhuang."

"If you never return, then you never return."

"If they come back, the rich businessman will pay back their vows to the Buddha statue, repair it again, and add incense."

"In the long run, from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, there have been thousands of Buddha statues here, so the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are also called the Thousand Buddha Caves."

"As time went by, in the Song Dynasty, the scope of the Song Dynasty's rule was far lower than that of the previous dynasty. They had no time to take care of the frontier here. At that time, forces from outside the Western Regions came here. The monks of the Sanjie Temple at that time heard that there were barbarians. , I hid all the documents and Buddhist scriptures in Dunhuang, and fled south for my life."

"As time went by, it was not until the Ming Dynasty that Dunhuang was brought back to the rule of the Central Plains."

"In the Ming Dynasty and the Little Ice Age, the snow line moved southward, and the 400mm precipitation line also moved southward."

"When the Great Wall was built in the Ming Dynasty, they chose to go to JYG, and Dunhuang, which is further to the west, became a lonely jewel hanging on the frontier."

Of course, An Luyao didn't know the history of Earth and Stars, but she could probably tell what was going on by listening to the process.

After all, the change of dynasties in Blue Star's history is similar to climate change, but the name of the dynasties is different.

Lin Xuan continued: "During the Qing Dynasty, a Taoist priest surnamed Wang stayed alone in Dunhuang."

"He opened the cave and found the scriptures in the cave, so he wrote many times to ask the government to protect these documents, but the Qing Dynasty didn't bother to pay attention."

"During the age when the Dragon Kingdom's national strength was declining, a large number of Westerners took risks and did business in the Qing Dynasty."

"There was a man from Gaul who came here. After discovering the Dunhuang documents, he kept getting close to Taoist Wang, claiming that he was a follower of Master Xuanzang..."

An Luyao interrupted here: "Who is Master Xuanzang?"

Lin Xuan: "Let's talk about Master Xuanzang separately, and continue to talk about the literature."

"Wang Taoist believed it was true, and he couldn't manage so many documents, so he sold [-] boxes of documents to him at a super low price."

"Subsequently, people from the country of Sakura, the people of Maoxiong, and the people of England rushed to come, and a large number of documents were leaked out."

"Seeing newspaper reports that foreign adventurers discovered ancient cultural documents and treasures that shocked the world in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing officials reacted and ordered people to send these documents to Yanjing."

"In this era, the Qing Dynasty has been corrupted to the limit. Officials on the road saw the 'baby' coming, and they all plucked their hair and took advantage of it."

"By the time these things are sent to Yanjing, there will be no more than one out of ten."

An Luyao was puzzled: "So, what are those documents and scriptures?"

Lin Xuan: "In the ancient times of Earth and Star, there were four civilizations with a long history."

"The civilization of the Dragon Kingdom, ancient Greece, ancient Arabia, ancient Asan, and Dunhuang are the only meeting centers of the four major civilizations."

"On the Silk Road, merchants from the Dragon Kingdom gathered in Dunhuang with stories, utensils, dictionaries, and albums brought back from various civilizations."

"In that batch of documents, there are historical documents, myths and legends from the Western Regions and even Central Asia, and religious classics, the largest of which are Buddhist scriptures, Taoist scriptures, and records of customs and customs in the Western Regions."

"In addition to the characters of the Dragon Kingdom, there are also scriptures in the languages ​​of various places in the Western Regions and Central Asia."

【Grass!Just lost?Isn't that Taoist foolish! 】

[Is this strange to the Taoist priest?In ancient times, it was very difficult for one person to air a hundred books. How can one person protect so many documents?Others have clearly reported to the Qing government, let the Qing government honestly carry the blame! 】

[Where does a Taoist know Buddhist scriptures?For him, it is enough to keep the Taoist scriptures, and he has no obligation to protect the Buddhist scriptures. Ordinary people in that era didn't know about precious ancient books. 】

[Subjectively, I don’t know, but objectively, my behavior is really stupid. 】

An Luyao sighed: "It's a pity, this is a pity for Earth Star Dragon Kingdom, and it's a pity that there is no Dunhuang in Blue Star Dragon Kingdom."

Lin Xuan nodded: "In the study of Dunhuang, scholars pay more attention to documents, while ordinary people prefer more intuitive Buddha statues and murals."

"Fortunately, the murals of Buddha statues cannot be removed."

"During the war in the Dragon Kingdom, many foreigners wanted to buy Buddha statues. Fortunately, Dunhuang had been protected at that time, and nothing was lost."

An Luyao's eyes lit up: "So, can we go see the Thousand Buddha Caves now?"

"of course."

"Ready for an onslaught of color?"

Time flies, the world changes.

In the live screen, everything changed.

Buildings rose from the ground.

The rocks are crumbling, and Dunhuang is showing its true face.

"The light is dim, so let's take a look at it. The paint here cannot be flashed with a flash."

In the picture, a Buddhist gate carved on a rock appears, and in the niche, a seated Buddha looks straight ahead with frightening power.

"This is a sculpture from an earlier period. The further back, the lower the eyebrows of the Buddha statues are, and the Bodhisattva's eyes are lowered. The eyes of later Buddha statues are more low-browed and pleasing to the eyes, while the early Buddha statues look more pleasing to the eye. Deterrence."

[It's so beautiful! 】

Of course it is exquisite, how much is a convoy worth for a businessman who went to the Western Regions to do business in that era?

They have no shortage of money to make Buddha statues.

Each one is very fine. In terms of quality, the quality of Buddha statues in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is much higher than other grottoes.

"These are just scattered Buddha statues on the periphery."

The camera moves faster, as if passing through a time tunnel.

From a straight-eyed Bodhisattva to a low-eyed Bodhisattva.

"These Buddha statues clearly show the process of Buddhism becoming a dragon country."

"In the ancient paintings of the Dragon Kingdom, in order to show the etiquette of not looking directly at others, I like to draw the characters in the painting with their heads bowed."

"However, when you lower your head and draw a frontal face, it will become ugly."

"So most of the ancient painters chose a technique to draw the face as a frontal face, but the eyebrows and eyes were in a bowed state, and the space-time stitching was drawn."

"This kind of splicing is not the "squinting eyes" that everyone sees, but lowering the eyebrows and pleasing the eyes."

Squinting eyes are real characters, and the eyes are drawn narrow and long with the so-called 'advanced makeup', which belongs to the dead art genre.

The low-brow and pleasing-to-eye drawing method is very common in modern art, such as Picasso's twisted and stitched face, which uses the same artistic principle.

Finally, the camera came to the first deep cave.

Blue and white wall paintings, five Vajras of different shapes and more than four meters high.

Each of the five King Kongs has a shape and a different color.

And on the walls of the grotto are all kinds of flying fairies.

"These images are called Feitian, and they describe the image of fairies."

Lin Xuan: "However, they all have their own prototypes, which are the flying dance and the Hu dance form of the Western Regions that were popular in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty."

"After studying these images, the ancient dances were restored in Earth Star Dragon Kingdom."

[Damn, it stands to reason that the dances in the two parallel worlds at the same time should be the same, but with Dunhuang, the dances on the Earth and Stars can be restored, and we can't. 】

[This dancing posture is soft and powerful at the same time. This kind of Hu dance should be very popular in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, right? 】

The camera moves to the next grotto, and there is no Donkey Kong in this grotto.

There are only some small palm-sized Buddhist altars.

There are also various Buddhas enshrined in the altars.

The flying sky on the mural is extremely huge, a fairy with fluttering clothes flies in the blue and white sky, and the blue and white cloud pattern has the artistic characteristics of the Dragon Kingdom at first glance.

And the fairy is holding a piccolo in her hand, and when people see it, fairy music flutters naturally in their hearts.

Lin Xuan said: "Poet Immortal Li Taibai was born in the Protectorate of the Western Regions. He returned to Shu when he was young. He soared to the sky and became an exiled immortal in his youth."

"Maybe he didn't remember anything when he was young, but he came to Dunhuang, and this scene remained in his heart."

"He once described a similar picture when he wrote Immortal World."

"The clouds are green and green, like rain, and the water is dull, and there is smoke.

There is no thunderbolt, and hills and hills collapsed.

The cave sky and the stone door are open in the sky.

Qingming has no bottom, the sun and the moon shine on the gold and silver platform.

Ni is the clothes, the wind is the horse, and the king of clouds is coming one after another.

The tiger drums and the luan return to the carriage, and the immortals are lined up like hemp. "

This kind of thing cannot be verified, but when Li Bai passed through Dunhuang, he must have been very young. As his father was a wealthy businessman, it may be hard to say that a certain grotto in Dunhuang was built with his father's money.

The camera moved again. This time, it came to a large cave. The murals here were more refined than the previous murals.

Lin Xuan introduced: "In Earth Star, Taoist believers are immersed in cultivating Taoism, as the saying goes: It's none of my business whether you believe it or not, I'm going to cultivate immortality."

"Therefore, Taoism seldom left a large number of murals and sculptures."

"Of course, if Taoism wants to keep it, what will be left behind are the shocking historical paintings, such as "87 Immortal Scrolls" and "Hundred Immortals Chaohui"."

"In terms of ancient murals and sculptures, we still have to rely on quantity. Dunhuang can be said to be the master of classical painting and sculpture art in the world."

In the mural, a nine-color fairy deer appeared.

The picture suddenly moved, and the nine-color deer was galloping among the mountains and rivers.

"This is the cartoon "Nine-Colored Deer" that I watched when I was a child. The prototype comes from the Nine-Colored Deer in Dunhuang murals."

[Ouch, you have the ability to play clips, if you have the ability to directly show the cartoons for everyone to watch! 】

[Dig another hole!Watching Lin Xuan's program every day, seeing him digging holes every day, I don't know if he still remembers to fill these holes. 】

[Nine-colored deer?This deer looks vigorous and has a sense of immortality at the same time, the artist who painted it is definitely a great talent! 】

[It took hundreds of years to make Dunhuang develop like this. Even if there are a few painting and sculpture families, it is very possible. 】

It’s really hard to say, for example, Yan Li’s family in the Tang Dynasty was a family of painters.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a family of ancient architectural casting molds was also born, which has been passed down to modern times.

The Nine-Colored Deer glanced in surprise, and the camera moved on.

There are 108 Buddhas in the heavens, five hundred arhats, countless novice monks, and countless artistic images.

From the very beginning of dressing style in the Western Regions to the classic Buddha statues of the Tang Dynasty.

"The evolution of these Buddha statues also shows the development process of Buddhism."

"For example, the meat bun on the top of the Buddha statue. In the study of the Earth Star and the Great Buddha in Paradise, a Buddhist scripture pavilion was discovered. It was later known that the big buns on the top of the Buddha statue are called Luo buns."

Zhutian Daluo, originally a Taoist vocabulary, has developed from meat bun to Luo bun, which fully demonstrates the inclusiveness of culture.

"Dunhuang shows the process of mutual influence and integration of various cultures in the process of evolution."

This visit has lasted for more than an hour.

Every time he sees something he understands, Lin Xuan will take the initiative to introduce a few words. In addition, the climate here is dry, and his nose hurts when he breathes. After talking for so long, his mouth is dry.

The screen switched again and came to a mural, Lin Xuan: "After seeing this Buddhist cave, today's display ends here."

"Dunhuang is good at using all kinds of wonderful colors, which confirms the character of Buddhism."

"Beautiful."

"But no matter how beautiful things are, we can't keep looking at them, after all, our energy is limited."

【do not!Who said that energy is limited, I am full of energy! 】

【ah?It's only been over an hour, Lin Xuan, are you so short? 】

[It’s okay to watch it for another day! 】

【I haven't seen so many ancient stone carvings and murals of different shapes and high quality gathered together. Let's look at it for a while, and then I can see where it is. 】

Lin Xuan waved his hand: "No, no, no, my throat hurts."

Seeing the last cave, Lin Xuan smiled: "I didn't expect there to be a surprise."

The camera is focused on a frame.

"This is Cave 3 of Yulin Grottoes in Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang. This picture is called Xuanzang's Learning from Buddhist Sutras."

"During the Tang Dynasty, a master named Xuanzang walked around the Western Regions from Longguo to the back of the Himalayas for 16 years, and retrieved the Buddhist scriptures." I didn’t even see it, and finally wrote those scriptures by hand, and we will talk about it according to the mainstream scriptures.)
"This story later developed into the story of "Journey to the West", the most widely spread and most popular of the four classic classics."

"In this picture, Xuanzang is followed by a human-shaped monkey. In "Journey to the West", it is the famous Monkey King Monkey King."

"And the artistic image of Sun Wukong, and the god Yang Erlang born in the image of Li Erlang who was born in the image of Jiangduyan water control we mentioned before, and a shocking battle in Journey to the West are eternal classics in our world of Earth and Stars."

【You dig a hole again? 】

[It is said that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" on Longdian Chinese website has been updated, do you dare to post "Journey to the West"? ! ! 】

[It was said before that "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the one with the worst details, the worst writing style, and the worst story among the four famous novels. "Journey to the West" should be better than "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", right? !I want to see it! ! ! 】

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