The Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Cave, are located in Dunhuang at the western end of Hexi Corridor. It was built in the period of Fu Jian, Emperor Xuanzhao of the former Qin Dynasty, and then it was built in the Northern Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Xixia and Yuan Dynasty. It is the largest and richest Buddhist art place in the world.

Famous sayings of Mogao Grottoes:

1. A pearl in the northwest of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.

2. The solemn and stirring will is engraved on the cave wall, but the tragic years are engraved on the earth, so it is hard to come back to God in the glorious Tang Dynasty.

3. The rise and fall of dynasties, the cycle of years, and the survival of life. There are bitterness, sweetness, bitterness, glory and resentment in the Mogao Grottoes ... These flavors, these emotions are intertwined, spread, flying, telling and building a Mogao Grottoes, a permanent myth.

4. The Mogao Grottoes is a poem with profound meaning; Mogao Grottoes is an ancient song with a long history. The Mogao Grottoes is an immortal myth.

5. The art of the Mogao Grottoes is a comprehensive art integrating architecture, painted sculptures and murals. It is the largest and most complete treasure house of Buddhist art in China and the world.

Artistic value:

The 1,-year history of Dunhuang Grottoes' construction is an important development period in which China experienced a long-term separatist regime after the Upper and Lower Han Dynasties, moved towards national integration and reunification of the North and the South, reached the peak of the Tang Dynasty, and then declined from the peak.

during this period, it was the formation and development period of China's artistic procedures, schools, categories and theories, and also the period when Buddhism and Buddhist art were introduced, and China's Buddhist theories and sects were established and developed, and Buddhist fine arts became an important category of China's fine arts, and finally the China period was completed.

refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Mogao Grottoes for the above contents.