Fan Jinshi: Choose one thing and finally return to the old heart is Dunhuang

New Gansu · Gansu Daily reporter Wang Ruijun

It is not difficult to do something alone. What is difficult is to do one thing in a lifetime. Fan Jinshi is such a person. She only did one thing in her life, that is, guarding, researching, and promoting the world cultural heritage -Mogao Grottoes.

Fan Jinshi feels that it is a happy thing to accompany Mogao Grottoes for a lifetime. Right now, in her 80s, she still places most of the time and energy on the second volume of the "Complete Works of Dunhuang Grottoes" in the "Archaeological Report of Cave 256-259 in the Mogao Grottoes". This more than 300,000 words of archeological reports written for more than ten years is expected to be published next year, and it will become another "archive information" about Dunhuang Cave after the first volume of "The Complete Works of Dunhuang Grottoes".

Fan Jinshi, Honorary Dean of the Dunhuang Research Institute. The pictures of this article are provided by the Dunhuang Research Institute

The association with the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang is an accidental choice. 1962 was the last year of Fan Jinshi University's life. In accordance with the practice of archeological majors in the Department of History of Peking University, graduate students can choose cultural relic units across the country to participate in graduation internships.

"At that time, many students wanted to choose Dunhuang, because Mogao Grottoes were typical of the ruins of Chinese Buddhist Grottoes in the minds of everyone." Fan Jinshi recalled that for himself, Dunhuang was also a place where he was looking forward. Far, if you can take a look at the opportunity of graduation internship, it is possible to have a wish. "

What Fan Jinshi didn't expect was that the final graduation allocation was allocated to Dunhuang.

At that time, "as long as the country needs, it is willing to obey unconditional" seems to be the common value pursuit of every student. What's more, the murals and statues in the Dunhuang Grottoes make Fan Jinshi remember. She firmly believes that she likes Dunhuang and likes Mogao Grottoes.

In the graduation season of 1963, a thin young girl carried a heavy bag and boarded the train to the west with hope. She is Fan Jinshi, 25 years old.

In May 2015, Fan Jinshi conducted an early cave content survey in Cave 272 in Mogao Grottoes.

The beauty of Dunhuang was shocking, but the suffering of Dunhuang was trembling.

"At the beginning of the Dunhuang, it was amazing. But only when I really stayed here, I knew that the cave was a fairy world, art hall, but outside the cave was flying sand and rocks and loess." Recalling the scene at that time, Fan Jinshi emotiated, and Beijing and Shanghai Xiangxiang Compared to another world.

At that time, Mogao Grottoes were almost isolated from the world. Without modern transportation, I went to Dunhuang County from Mogao Grottoes for a long time. At that time, Dunhuang was a small town, which could be finished in half an hour. There were only two department stores in the city and a sugar and salt bureau. Fan Jinshi remembered that at that time, everyone lived in the earth, drinking salt water, and copied murals, protect repair, investigate content, and study literature in the caves.

Why does such a brilliant grotto art produce such a brilliant grotto in the desert of the world? Why does Dunhuang seem to be abandoned for centuries? What are the faces of the Buddhist world created by murals and color plastic? ... These questions linger in Fan Jinshi's mind every day.

"Maybe, I have pouted my life, and I may not be able to exhaust its mystery, but I still have to go forward." For more than 50 years, Fan Jinshi could no longer be reluctant to say goodbye to Dunhuang. The saints "dialogue".

That's it, Fan Jinshi traveled all the caves in Mogao Grottoes, watched every mural, and every colorful plastic. In 2011, the first volume of the "Complete Works of Dunhuang Grottoes", which lasted for 40 years, was officially published in the first volume of the "Mogao Grottoes 266-275 Cave". Essence

Over time, Fan Jinshi gradually discovered a serious problem. She said, "The surge in the number of tourists from Mogao Caves may cause the cave's face to pass out irreversible, the murals gradually blurred, and the color gradually faded away."

At the end of the 1980s, an accidental opportunity, Fan Jinshi came into contact with computer technology, and she felt keenly that this may be a chance to be saved permanently in Mogao Grottoes.

After more than 30 years of exploration, the Dunhuang Research Institute formed a set of unable to mobile digital digital technical specifications and standards such as digital collection, security storage, and effective management. The protection and research work in Mogao Grottoes also brought Dunhuang art out of the cave and the world.

Dean Fan guided the writing of the "Complete Works of Dunhuang Grottoes" in the cave.

"Give up for half a life, to the vast desert. From the Lake to Mogao Grottoes, keep the fire of the predecessors, and open up the path of tomorrow. The wind and sand of the half century can stand the blow. Field cultural brigade, from youth to white hair. The return of the heart is Dunhuang. "This is the award word written by the Central Radio and Television Terminal's" Touching the 2019 Characters of China "to Fan Jinshi.

Today, everyone in the Dunhuang Research Institute continues to "adhere to the desert, be willing to dedicate, be courageous, and forge ahead", and Mr. Fan Jinshi has become an outstanding representative of the "Mogao spirit". Looking back at the past, she always said, "This life is set, I am a guardian of Mogao Grottoes."

Reporter's note

"Choosing one thing for a lifetime, one thing for a lifetime" is the true portrayal of the guardian of the Mogao Grottoes generation.

Since the 1940s, after the return of Chang Shuhong's retirement, he was committed to Dunhuang's cultural relics and was known as "Dunhuang Guardian God"; Duan Wenjie was attracted by Dunhuang murals at a painting exhibition. Research and promotion; after graduating from the Department of History of Peking University, Fan Jinshi resolutely took over the relay sticks in the hands of the two seniors, silently guarding the Mogao Grottoes in the vast desert. Only those who have been to Dunhuang and approach Mogao Grottoes can feel that the purity of Mogao Grottoes is awesome. From Chang Shuhong and Duan Wenjie to Fan Jinshi, they fully delivered their lives to the rushing sand and Qianfo Cave Fang Yuanlian's rushing light and shadow in Dunhuang. Essence

Dunhuang culture belongs to China, but Dunhuang studies belong to the world. It is the responsibility of the Chinese nation as the progress of world civilization by protecting the Mogao Grottoes and inheriting Dunhuang culture. How to make these millennium art treasures "permanent" has become the common pursuit of the guardian of the Mogao Grottoes.

Today, the guardian of the new generation of Mogao Grottoes is inheriting the legacy of the ancestors, continuing to relay, and strive to build the Dunhuang Research Institute into a model of the protection of world cultural heritage and the highland of Dunhuang studies. More dazzling light.

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