"Dunhuang Watching Forty Days": Dunhuang culture spreads from the perspective of the public ｜ New Book Shelf

Cover news reporter Zhang Jie

Dunhuang grottoes are limited to natural conditions and cannot exist eternal. Macration repair, digital technology, etc. are all means to delay the disappearance. More importantly, the spread of Dunhuang culture. Only everyone gets close to it and understands it can it "exist" forever.

On September 11th, in a cultural space "Light and Shadow Villa" in the beautiful Suzhou Polyzhi Ancient Town, the "Dunhuang Watching Forty Days" published by the Chinese Book Company held a new book conference. Jiang Li, the author of "Dunhuang Watching Forty Days", and Ge Jianxiong, a senior professor of the Special Professor of Fudan University and a librarian of the Central Literature and History Research Museum, and Yang Xiuqing, a researcher at the Dunhuang Research Institute, talked about their respective Dunhuang stories.

Author Jiang Li

Since Yang Xiuqing was transferred to the Dunhuang Research Institute in 1995, he is currently responsible for the work of the Dunhuang Grottoes Protection Research Foundation. According to him, "Dunhuang Cultural Watchman" is a global volunteer dispatch project jointly launched by Dunhuang Research Institute, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Dunhuang Grottoes Protection Research Foundation, and Shanghai Jiaotong University Cultural Development Fund. Dunhuang culture, enhance national culture self -confidence. The project selects ten people from more than a thousand candidates around the world every year, and goes to Dunhuang for training and assessment, becoming a formal interpreter of Mogao Grottoes, and explaining caves from tourists from all over the world. At present, the project has been carried out for three periods, ten people, a total of thirty people, a in -depth experience in Dunhuang, Jiang Li is the third "cultural watchman". This plan has received a good results. One of the effects is Jiang Li's "Dunhuang Watch Forty Days".

After the daily study of Dunhuang, Jiang Li recorded his experience and perception under Dunhuang in the form of a diary. In addition, there are more than 140 pictures in the book, which are not only taken by Jiang Lishi, and pictures of cultural relics in the cave authorized by the Dunhuang Research Institute. Feel the history of Dunhuang and the present.

In 2000, the "Tibetan Scripture Cave" discovered the 100th anniversary, and a series of activities opened the journey of the Dunhuang culture. "In fact, there are not many people who can really go to Dunhuang, and there are not many people who know Dunhuang culture. We have been thinking about the public spread of the Dunhuang culture. From the Sui and Tang dynasties, the popular cultural level of the Dunhuang Grottoes has risen, and today we More hooks occurred. Jiang Li's book is to spread the Dunhuang culture from the perspective of the public. This kind of publication is actually rare today. This book also mentioned that the Jiangnan elements were seen in the Dunhuang Grottoes in the Dunhuang Grottoes. This fully reflects the diversity of cultural exchanges, and it also reflects the personal color and three -dimensional nature of this book. "Yang Xiuqing said.

As a senior historian, Ge Jianxiong went to Dunhuang for the first time in 1979. At that time, he went to Dunhuang for the first time as a graduate student. He mentioned that it was difficult to understand Dunhuang culture without reading a lot of relevant information before. Now it is different. There are many convenience of spreading ordinary people to approach Dunhuang. There are many sources of Dunhuang culture, but they have been Chinese, and they are produced in the cultural atmosphere of the Hexi Corridor; many contents are religious on the surface, which are actually worldly; Cultural exchanges are often richer than we think. "

Jiang Li signed the reader

Regarding the book "Forty Days of Dunhuang", Ge Jianxiong praised the emotionality in writing, allowing this popular reading to surpass knowledge and interest, full of temperature and empathy. Knowledge is public, and emotions have a private brand. It is this affectionate and unscrupulous realization that makes this book look different and feels very popular and immersed. "The important thing is not the forty days when Jiang Li watched in Dunhuang, but the four hundred days and four thousand days after leaving Dunhuang to return to his life.

(Photo confession of Chunghwa Book Company)

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