Taiyuan Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum was awarded the patriotism education base

　　China News Service, Taiyuan, August 4th (Reporter Hu Jian) ​​On the 4th, the Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum in Taiyuan City was awarded the patriotism education base by the Taiyuan Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government. The local government hopes to give play to its cultural value of educating and educating people through history.

　　Taiyuan Tianlongshan Grottoes is a national key cultural relics protection unit. It was excavated during the Eastern Wei, Northern Qi, Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are 25 existing caves and more than 500 statues.

Tianlongshan Grottoes is famous for its exquisite stone sculptures and distinctive regional styles. It can be called the pinnacle of Chinese grotto art from the Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Its statues in the Tang Dynasty are also known as "a bright pearl in the treasure house of oriental sculpture art." ".

　　In the 1920s, the Tianlongshan Grottoes suffered devastating robberies, and the damage was the most tragic among Chinese cave temples.

Not long ago, the Tianlongshan Grottoes "the main Buddha head on the north wall of Cave No. 8", which was lost overseas for nearly a century, finally returned to their homeland and became the first precious lost cultural relic to return to the Tianlongshan Grottoes from Japan in the past 100 years.

　　Bian Suting, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Taiyuan Municipal Party Committee, said that as a national historical and cultural city, Taiyuan has a long history and profound heritage, rich cultural tourism resources and rich soil for cultivating patriotism.

In order to remember the history, with the approval of the Taiyuan Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum was awarded as the Taiyuan Patriotic Education Base.

　　As early as the 1990s, Taiyuan Tianlong Mountain became the first batch of patriotic education bases in the province. This time, the Tianlongshan Grottoes Museum was awarded the municipal patriotism education base, which will further strengthen the interpretation and dissemination of the value of cultural relics, especially It is to promote the Tianlongshan Grottoes Digital Restoration International Tour as a national key promotion project of "Chinese Culture Going Global", which not only allows the public to understand history and enhance cultural confidence, but also guides all walks of life to contribute and promote the return of more lost cultural relics.

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