(Two Sessions Express) Su Bomin, "Pearl Keeper": Let Dunhuang go to the world, let the world understand Dunhuang
China News Service, Beijing, March 5 (Zhao Yejiao) "We hope that through our efforts, Dunhuang will go to the world, let the world understand Dunhuang, and continue to enhance the international influence of Chinese culture." On the 5th, four times in the 13th National People's Congress. At the first "Representative Passage" of the conference, Su Bomin, deputy dean of the National People's Congress and vice president of the Dunhuang Academy, introduced the latest developments in the heritage and protection of Dunhuang culture, the world's art treasure house.
Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is the world’s largest existing grotto site with the longest duration, richest content, and most complete preservation. It currently retains 735 caves, 45,000 square meters of murals and more than 2,000 colored sculptures. It is one on the Silk Road. The most dazzling pearl.
As a cultural relics protection worker at Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Su Bomin said frankly that for hundreds of years after the mid-sixteenth century, Mogao Grottoes had been in an unmanaged situation, and the caves had suffered relatively severe natural and man-made destruction.
It was not until the establishment of the Dunhuang Academy in 1944 that the protection, research, and promotion of Mogao Grottoes began.
Over the past 77 years, it has been generations of "zhu keepers" who have persisted in the desert, been willing to make sacrifices, and applied various sciences and technologies to effectively protect and manage the grottoes. Only then has the Pearl gradually returned to its former glory.
Su Bomin said that the protection workers of the underworld are sparing no effort to protect, research, and promote the Dunhuang Grottoes.
For example, in terms of protection, focusing on bottlenecks in ancient murals, earthen ruins, etc., apply to undertake 3 "National Key Research and Development Program" projects.
The Gansu Provincial Government has approved Dunhuang to establish a scientific and technological platform for the "Dunhuang Cultural Relics Conservation and Research Center".
He also revealed that on this basis, the Dunhuang Research Institute is applying for the establishment of a "State Key Laboratory of Cultural Heritage Protection on the Silk Road", and hopes that the country will put cultural relic technology innovation in a more prominent position in the "14th Five-Year Plan" science and technology plan. , To give full guarantee and support.
In terms of research, Su Bomin said that the Dunhuang Academy is preparing to launch the Dunhuang cultural value system and the Dunhuang and Silk Road series of topics to explore and study the philosophical ideas, humanistic spirit, and value concepts contained in Dunhuang culture and historical relics along the Silk Road. And ethics.
With the rise of cultural relics technology, the Dunhuang Research Institute has also used AR and digital twin technology to realize the smart guided tour of the Mogao Grottoes and the visit mode of "seeing the cultural relics inside the cave outside the cave".
"We have also used various communication methods such as cloud exhibition and integrated media communication to continuously innovate the communication channels and promotion models of Dunhuang culture." Su Bomin said.
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