China News Service, Taiyuan, July 24th (Reporter Yingni Hu Jian) ​​The return ceremony of the head of the Buddha at Tianlongshan Grottoes was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi on the 24th. The Tianlongshan Grottoes "the main Buddha head on the north wall of the 8th Grotto" was lost overseas for nearly a century. After all, it is the homeland, and it is also the first precious lost cultural relic to return to the Tianlongshan Grottoes from Japan in the past 100 years.

　　The reporter saw at the Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum that the head of Buddha appeared as the core exhibit of the special exhibition "The Return of National Treasure on the Road to Fuxing".

The exhibition comprehensively uses various forms such as precious cultural relics, historical pictures, digital restoration, and 3D printed grottoes to describe the loss and return of the Tianlongshan grottoes in an all-round way.

This Buddha head has a flat bun, a round face, slightly closed eyes, slightly pursed lips, a subtle smile, skilled carving techniques, exquisite expression techniques, and distinctive characteristics of the times. It embodies the national aesthetics and the superb skills of the craftsmen of the Sui Dynasty. Extremely precious stone carving art works.

　　As for why the head of the Buddha and the body of the Buddha were not integrated, Yu Hao, the curator of the Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum, explained to the reporter that the north wall of the 8th cave where the head of the return Buddha was originally located is close to the cliff body, and the cliff body has serious fissures. It will be difficult to avoid a certain degree of weathering, so the Buddha head will be preserved and displayed permanently in the museum.

The specially designed lighting and ultra-low reflectivity display cabinets in the exhibition hall perfectly present the attractive contour lines of the Buddha's head.

　　Zhang Rong, an overseas Chinese living in Japan and a donor to the Buddha's head, said, "Donating the Buddha's head is a milestone in my life. At least I have done one thing I should do to separate the Buddha's head from the body for a hundred years. Back to the motherland.” He said at the scene that he would donate 300,000 yuan awarded by the government to support the restoration of cultural relics, so that more national treasures can be returned to the embrace of the motherland in the future.

　　At the return ceremony, Li Qun, Vice Minister of China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, emphasized that lost cultural relics are an important part of China’s cultural heritage. The Chinese government reserves the right to recover historically stolen and illegally exported cultural relics, including the loss of cave temples. Cultural relics.

The Chinese government firmly supports the return of lost cultural relics to their country of origin, and is willing to work with the international community to explore and establish institutional arrangements to properly resolve the issue of the return of historically lost cultural relics, and jointly build a more fair and just international order for the return of cultural relics.

　　He pointed out that the cultural heritage is tied to the fortune of the country, the thousand-year-old Tianlong Mountain, the history of a hundred years of loss, the return of the prosperous age, and the patriotic heart of the Chinese people at home and abroad that cherish the Chinese cultural genes are vivid footnotes to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

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