Beijing Minsheng Modern Art Museum Camel Bell Sounds Silk Road Exhibition

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, taking advantage of the fewer people during the New Year and half-price tickets (88 per person) and a quiz draw, I went to the Beijing Minsheng Modern Art Museum to see the Civilization Fusion Camel Bell Sounds - Silk Road Art Exhibition. There are four free public lectures every day, 10:30 11:30 13:30 15:30 each lecture lasts about an hour and a half I went early and caught the first lecture, which lasted an hour and a half. Like last year's Dunhuang exhibition, the exhibition hall is very dark, possibly due to the protection of cultural relics. Unlike last year's Dunhuang exhibition, where the lecturer would shine a flashlight on the places that needed to be carefully observed whenever a place was mentioned, this year's exhibition may be due to the requirements for the protection of cultural relics. Except for the copied caves that were illuminated with flashlights, the rest could not be illuminated with flashlights. The exhibits on display, mostly originals, include many Tang Dynasty and even pre-Tang silk textiles (I have to say that the preservation is really good, many of them just look a bit old, if you don't write the age, you would really think they were made in recent decades), and there are also many original fragments of murals from caves in Xinjiang. Although they are fragments of murals, the charm of Buddha is still there. In the ancient Buddha statue section, this exhibition displays many ancient Buddha statues, including those from Longmen Grottoes and Maijishan Grottoes. Many of them are not covered with glass, so you can appreciate the charm of Buddha statues up close. Some of the Buddha statues do not look like rigid sculptures, but more like living people. In the cave section, the Yulin Cave No. 29, Maijishan Cave No. 123, Kizil Cave No. 8, No. 38, and the restored Bezeklik Cave No. 15 were copied, all on a one-to-one scale. The dim light is as if you are in the original cave. The copied Yulin Cave No. 29 is permanently closed, and you are not allowed to enter the Yulin Cave. On the second floor of the exhibition hall, there is a sand painting of the Wheel of Time Mandala, which was made by several monks from Qinghai. You can appreciate the beauty of the Mandala from different angles (similar Mandala sand paintings are also available in Yonghe Palace, but you can only appreciate them from one angle).