A decade ago, Chang Shana, an esteemed scholar of Dunhuang art, started a touring exhibition called Everlasting Beauty of Dunhuang, which shows her drawings of the murals and statues inside the Dunhuang caves in Gansu province and designs in which she incorporates motifs from Dunhuang. Chang, who's 93 years old, is also a former head of the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University. She spent her early teenage years in Dunhuang with her father, Chang Shuhong, the first director of the Dunhuang Academy. She was fascinated by the cave art and made copies of it.

Since then, the exhibition has traveled to many cities across the country to ignite people's interest in Dunhuang's art and how to carry on this heritage. It has come to the Chinese Traditional Culture Museum, where it will run until Oct 27. It navigates eight decades in which Chang Shana has lived up to her father's words and has blazed a trail to keep alive the artistry of Dunhuang. That is, by employing those patterns that have been impressed in her mind since her teens and which she has seen on designs in architecture, State gifts, costumes and other decorative items. She says Everlasting Beauty of Dunhuang is one of her ways to fulfill the wishes of her father to protect Dunhuang's heritage and show its importance to as many people as possible, and to nourish their hearts and minds.

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