Meet with Dunhuang

Master artisan keeps ancient art of leather carving alive

2024-04-17

In Dingxi city, Northwest China's Gansu province, master artisan Gao Zhongmin keeps the ancient art of leather carving alive.
'Welcome to Nanzuo!'

2024-04-11

The Nanzuo site in Qingyang city, Gansu province, is a large settlement site of the Yangshao Culture, providing solid materials for research into the origin and development of civilizations in the Yellow River basin.
China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

2024-04-07

China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes.
Study tours heat up at Dunhuang Yardang National Geopark

2024-03-29

Since the beginning of this year, the market for Dunhuang culture study tours has been heating up, leading to a significant increase in the number of study participants visiting the Dunhuang Yardang National Geopark. According to statistics from the Dunhuang Culture and Tourism Department, from January to March 27, the park welcomed 28,637 study participants, marking a 126 percent increase compared to last year.
Popular cultural play 'Encore Dunhuang' returns to stage

2024-03-25

The large-scale indoor immersive melodrama Encore Dunhuang has resumed since March to speed up the recovery of local tourism market.
Dunhuang Academy's protection team work to ensure relics not lost to sands of time

2024-03-19

The Dunhuang Academy's cultural relics protection team was honored with the title of National Outstanding Engineering Team early this year, China's highest honor in the field of engineering.
Burst of flavor puts city in Gansu under spotlight

2024-03-18

It took six hours for Liu Yi, 26, to get to Tianshui, Northwest China's Gansu province, by train. It took another two hours of waiting in a queue before he could finally get his hands on a bowl of local malatang — a mix of foods boiled in hot, spicy broth.
Explore 'Gallery in the Desert': Mogao Grottoes Cave 320

2024-03-15

The High Tang Dynasty (713-766) stands as a pinnacle of artistic achievement, characterized by vibrant exchanges along the Silk Road that fostered remarkable advancements in Buddhist art at the Mogao Grottoes.