After seeing the stone carvings and the rich treasures inside the cave, we were really shocked, this is a treasure that is worthy of the richest country. After obtaining Nanli's permission, we took a small amount of gold ingots with the longevity character pattern and made use of the Tongbao, and then we went out of the cave. Although the harvest this time is really not small, it is always inevitable to feel regret that the pair of jade mandarin duck bracelets are missing.

"Nanli, you can make a fortune now!" Sun Wei said enviously.

"I'm not interested in any of that. Nanli still couldn't hold back his spirits, and forced a smile on his face.

I rolled my eyes and said, "Miss, when you saw the gold ingots in the cave, you also have golden eyes, okay?

"Didn't you share your benefits?!" Nanli said arrogantly.

"Yes, yes, thank you for the reward. Seriously, what are you going to do with these treasures and this island?" I asked seriously.

"I don't know, the treasure must be taken out first, Kojima, I guess it's still like this. Nanli shrugged his shoulders and looked indifferent.

I looked at the entrance of the cave, very reluctant, and asked: "Nanli, can you develop a resort, a tourist attraction, even if it is a cultural research institute?"

Nanli looked at me suspiciously, and I felt a little chilled when I saw it.

"I mean, really, you see that the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang are the world's largest and richest surviving Buddhist art sites. Perhaps, this cave will become a sacred place for Taoism?" I asked.

"What are the Mogao Grottoes?" Nanli asked.

Brother Guang said: "The Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, are located in Dunhuang at the western end of the Hexi Corridor. It was built in the pre-Qin period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and then went through the construction of the Northern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Western Xia, the Yuan Dynasty and other dynasties, forming a huge scale, there are 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals, 2,415 clay colored sculptures, it is the world's largest existing scale, the most abundant Buddhist art place, and is one of the three major grottoes and the four major grottoes in China. ”

"Yes, I didn't expect Brother Guang to know this. I patted Brother Guang on the shoulder.

"I've studied geography and history, okay?!" Brother Guang said disdainfully.

"Go on. Nanli blinked.

Brother Guang was speechless for a moment.

I went on to explain: "The Mogao Grottoes were built in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, according to the record of the book "Li Kerang Rebuilt the Buddha Shrine Tablet of the Mogao Grottoes" in the Tang Dynasty, in the second year of the Qin Dynasty, the monk Lezun passed by this mountain, and suddenly saw the golden light, such as ten thousand Buddhas, so he dug the first cave on the rock wall. After that, Zen Master Faliang and others continued to build caves here to practice meditation, called "Mogao Grotto", which means "high place in the desert". In later generations, because "desert" and "Mo" were common, it was renamed "Mogao Grottoes". Another saying is: Buddhism has a saying, the merit of building Buddha caves is immeasurable, Mo, impossible, no, Mogao Grottoes means, that is, there is no higher cultivation than the construction of Buddha caves. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the rulers believed in Buddhism, and the construction of the grottoes was supported by the princes and nobles, and the development was relatively fast. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, with the prosperity of the Silk Road, the Mogao Grottoes were even more prosperous, and there were more than 1,000 caves in Wu Zetian. After the Anshi Rebellion, Dunhuang was occupied by the Tubo and Guiyi armies, but the statue-making activities were not greatly affected. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Western Xia and Yuan dynasties, the Mogao Grottoes gradually declined, and only the caves of the previous dynasties were mainly rebuilt, and there were very few new constructions. After the Yuan Dynasty, Dunhuang stopped opening caves and gradually fell into disuse. Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty closed Jiayuguan in seven years, making Dunhuang a nomadic land in the border area. In the 57th year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, Xinjiang was pacified, and in the first year of Yongzheng, Shazhou was set up in Dunhuang, and Shazhou Wei was changed in three years, and immigrants from Gansu states immigrated to Dunhuang Tuntian to rebuild Shazhou City. In the 25th year of Qianlong, Shazhou Wei was changed to Dunhuang County, and Dunhuang's economy began to recover. The Mogao Grottoes began to attract attention. Until the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the cave that shocked the world was discovered. Unfortunately, under the specific historical background of corruption and incompetence in the late Qing Dynasty and the invasion of China by Western powers, soon after the discovery of the cultural relics of the Tibetan Scripture Cave, Western explorers such as the British Stein, the legal person Bo Xihe, the Japanese Tangerine Ruichao, and the Russian Oldenburg came to Dunhuang one after another, and defrauded a large number of Tibetan Scripture Cave cultural relics from the hands of Wang Daoist by unfair means, resulting in the looting of the Tibetan Scripture Cave cultural relics, and most of them were unfortunately scattered and stored in Britain, France, Russia, Of the many public and private collections in Japan and other countries, only a small number are preserved in China, causing an unprecedented catastrophe in the history of Chinese culture. ”

"Niuzi, I'm wondering now, how did you grow up with this brain, and you can remember so many things?" Sun Wei said in surprise.

"This is just a drop in the bucket for Dunhuang culture. "I scratched my head, because the Dunhuang culture is so broad and profound, I really don't know where to start.

"Niuzi, tell us about this Mogao Grottoes, how was he discovered?" asked Song Jun.

I was a little embarrassed, cheered up, and said, "I'll try to talk about it." In 1900, a Taoist priest living in the Mogao Grottoes, whose name should be Wang Yuanji, carried out a large-scale cleaning in order to rebuild some of the caves that had been abandoned for a long time into Taoist temples. When he cleared the silt, he stumbled upon a small door on the north side of the Yongdao wall, after opening, there was a square cave chamber with a length and width of 2.6 meters and a height of 3 meters, which contained more than 50,000 pieces of cultural relics such as documents and paper paintings, silk paintings, and embroideries from the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Northern Song Dynasty, which was the famous "Tibetan Scripture Cave". The inner wall of the Tibetan scripture cave is painted with images such as Bodhi tree and bhikshunis, there is a Zen bed-type low altar, and there is a sitting figure of a high monk Hongbi on it, and there is a stone tablet, which seems to be unfinished. Judging from the documents unearthed in the cave, the latest was written in the Northern Song Dynasty, and there is no Tangut script, so it can be inferred that the cave was closed by the monks of the Mogao Grottoes in the 11th century A.D. when they were preparing to flee in order to avoid the Tangut army. The Mogao Caves are a very important discovery in the history of Chinese archaeology, most of the unearthed documents are written copies, a small number are engraved copies, and about five-sixths of them are written in Chinese scripts, and the others are ancient Tibetan, Sanskrit, Qilu, Sogdian, Khotanese, Uighur, Qiuzi, Hebrew, etc. The content of the documents is mainly Buddhist scriptures, in addition to Taoist scriptures, Confucian classics, novels, poems, historical books, cadastre, account books, calendars, deeds, letters, pleadings, etc., many of which are unique and unique. These are important historical materials and scientific value for the study of the history of China and Central Asia, and thus formed a discipline that mainly studies the scriptures and cave documents and the art of Dunhuang caves, called Dunhuang Studies. ”

I paused and continued: "In my opinion, the Mogao Grottoes are a great palace of art, an encyclopedia of images. Seeing the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang is equivalent to seeing the ancient civilizations of the world. "The Mogao Grottoes are the longest, largest and most extensive gallery in the world. ”