China News Service, Taiyuan, February 19 (Reporter Yang Jieying and Hu Jian) Yungang Grottoes Research Institute was officially upgraded to establish Yungang Research Institute on the 19th.
The institute will aim at the international frontier of protection and research of cave temples, and help Yungang caves to reach the world.
Professor Hang Kan of the School of Archaeology, Arts and Sciences of Peking University and vice president of Shanxi University serves as the dean of Yungang Research Institute.
"Over the past 100 years, great progress has been made in the protection of cultural relics and academic research of Yungang Grottoes." Zhang Zhuo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Yungang Research Institute, said that the upgraded Yungang Research Institute will pay close attention to basic research and key protection projects of Yungang Grottoes. , Aiming at the international frontier of the protection and research of the cave temples, benchmarking the Dunhuang Academy, and comprehensively promoting and upgrading the cultural relics protection, the construction of Yungang studies and the opening of tourism in the Yungang Grottoes.
Prior to this, Yungang Grottoes explored a path of digital research, protection, development and utilization around "making cultural relics live".
After more than ten years of exploration, he has made major achievements in a number of scientific research projects such as the grotto digitization project: using three-dimensional laser scanning technology to generate cross-sectional views in all directions in the cave, so that the cave can be displayed in multiple angles, and it is built for the Yungang Grotto Three-dimensional "digital archives".
In recent years, Shanxi has actively promoted the protection and research of Yungang Grottoes, focusing on the protection of cultural relics, historical research, activation and utilization, and talent construction. It has made every effort to promote the protection of Yungang and the creation of Yungang studies, and solved the problem of upgrading, reconstruction and introduction of Yungang Research Institute. Difficult issues such as free housing for talents, Yungang studies majors of related universities, journals and research institutions, have helped the Yungang Grottoes be fully revived and expanded to the world.
The Yungang Grottoes were built more than 1500 years ago, and they are called the four largest grottoes in China together with Mogao Grottoes, Longmen Grottoes and Maijishan Grottoes.
The Yungang Grottoes Research Institute was established in 1952, and is responsible for the protection, research and management of Yungang Grottoes. Its main tasks are the historical research and cultural relics protection of Yungang Grottoes, the formulation of tourist area development plans, rational development, utilization and tourist facilities Construction and management of
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