In which Chinese city are the Mogao Grottoes located? What is inside the Mogao Grottoes?

Have you heard of Mogao Grottoes? Most of the paintings before the Five Dynasties in China have been lost. The murals in Mogao Grottoes provide important objects for the study of Chinese art history, and also provide extremely valuable images and patterns for the study of ancient Chinese customs. According to calculations, if these murals are arranged at a height of 2 meters, they can form a gallery up to 25 kilometers long. The soil of the cliff where Mogao Grottoes is located is relatively soft and not suitable for making stone sculptures. Therefore, except for the four large Buddha statues which are stone-based clay sculptures, the rest of the statues in Mogao Grottoes are wood-framed clay sculptures. So which city in China is Mogao Grottoes located in? What is inside Mogao Grottoes? Let's take a look at the introduction of Encyclopedia Knowledge Network below!

Contents of this article

1. In which Chinese city is the Mogao Grottoes located?

2. What is inside the Mogao Grottoes?

3. Is the Mogao Grottoes in Shaanxi a world cultural heritage?

4. What is the difference between Mogao Grottoes Class A and Class B tickets?

In which Chinese city are the Mogao Grottoes located?

1. Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, are located in Dunhuang at the western end of the Hexi Corridor.

2. Mogao Grottoes was first built in the Former Qin period of the Sixteen Kingdoms. It went through construction in the Sixteen Kingdoms, Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Western Xia, Yuan and other dynasties, and formed a huge scale. It has 735 caves, 50,000 square meters of murals, and 2,415 clay sculptures. It is the largest and most content-rich existing Buddhist art site in the world.

3. Mogao Grottoes were first built during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. According to the Tang Dynasty book "Li Kerang's Stele on the Reconstruction of the Buddha Shrines in Mogao Grottoes", in the second year of Jianyuan in the Former Qin Dynasty (366), the monk Le Zun passed by this mountain and suddenly saw a golden light shining, as if thousands of Buddhas appeared, so he dug the first cave on the rock wall. After that, Zen Master Faliang and others continued to build caves and practice Zen here, which was called "Mogao Grottoes", meaning "the height of the desert". In later generations, because "Mo" and "Mo" are interchangeable, it was renamed "Mogao Grottoes". Another saying is: Buddhists say that building Buddhist caves has immeasurable merits. Mo means impossible or nothing. The meaning of Mogao Grottoes is that there is no higher practice than building Buddhist caves.

What's inside the Mogao Grottoes?

1. Among the 492 existing caves, there are more than 45,000 square meters of murals from the Sixteen Kingdoms, Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Uighur, Western Xia, Yuan, Qing, and Republic of China periods.

2. There are 3,390 colored sculptures from various dynasties preserved in the 492 caves of Mogao Grottoes, including 2,088 round sculptures and 1,302 shadow sculptures.

3. There are more than 10 wooden structures from the Tang, Song, Qing and Republic of China periods. The Mogao Grottoes discovered the Sutra Cave in 1900, which preserves more than 50,000 cultural relics including Buddhist classics, economic documents, literature, science and technology, historical and geographical materials, silk paintings, paper paintings, weaving, dyeing and embroidery from the 4th to 11th centuries.

1. Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is the general name for Mogao Grottoes and Western Thousand Buddha Caves in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. It is one of the four famous grottoes in my country and also the largest and best-preserved treasure house of Buddhist art in the world.

2. Mogao Grottoes are located 25 kilometers southeast of Dunhuang City, carved on the cliffs at the eastern foot of Mingsha Mountain. It is about 1,600 meters long from north to south, with five layers arranged up and down, high and low in a staggered manner, and lined up in rows, shaped like a beehive pigeon house, which is extremely spectacular.

Is the Mogao Grottoes in Shaanxi a world cultural heritage?

There is no Mogao Grottoes in Shaanxi. The Mogao Grottoes are in Dunhuang, Gansu. The Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are a world cultural heritage.

Mogao Grottoes, commonly known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, are located in Dunhuang at the western end of the Hexi Corridor. It was first built during the Former Qin period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and has been built over the course of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Western Xia, and Yuan dynasties. It has become a huge site with 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals, and 2,415 clay sculptures. It is the largest and most content-rich Buddhist art site in the world.

What is the difference between Mogao Grottoes Class A and Class B tickets?

The difference between Mogao Grottoes Class A tickets and Class B tickets lies in the different daily quantities, ticket types and prices, and usage rules.

1. Different daily quantities

3,000 Class A tickets are sold every day; 6,000 Class B tickets are sold every day.

2. Different ticket types and prices

The full price of Class A tickets is 238 yuan, discount tickets are 148 yuan, and special discount tickets are 20 yuan.

The full price of Class B tickets is 100 yuan, the discount ticket is 55 yuan, and the special discount ticket is 20 yuan.

3. Rules of Use

Category A tickets: Watch the theme digital film "Millennium Mogao" and the dome film "Dream Buddha Palace", take the round-trip transportation vehicle to Mogao Grottoes, and visit the 8 open caves of Mogao Grottoes in a group of 25 to 30 people with a full-time tour guide. Free visit to the Dunhuang Grottoes Cultural Relics Protection Research Exhibition Center, Dunhuang Sutra Cave Exhibition Hall, Dunhuang Academy History Exhibition Hall, Dunhuang Academy Art Museum, etc.

Type B ticket: Take the round-trip transportation vehicle to Mogao Grottoes, the caves are equipped with tour guides, and visit the 4 open caves of Mogao Grottoes.