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Dunhuang Museum, Jiuquan, Gansu Province‖Explore the artistic treasures of the millennium

Dunhuang Tour: Explore the artistic treasures of the millennium|||Dunhuang is a mysterious place that carries a thousand-year-old legend. When you set foot on this land, it is as if you have traveled through time and space and entered a historical painting. If you want to avoid the scorching heat of the midday sun while traveling in Dunhuang in the summer, why not check out the Dunhuang Museum! Dunhuang Museum: 📍Location: No. 1390, Mingshan North Road, Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu Province 🎫Tickets: Free, but you need to make a reservation 7 days in advance 🕙Opening hours: 👉Summer (May 1 to September 30): Tuesday to Sunday 09:00 - 18:30 (last entry at 17:30) 👉Winter (October 1 to April 30 of the following year): Tuesday to Sunday 09:00 - 18:00 (last entry at 17:00) ❌Closed on Mondays, don't make a wasted trip~ 🎇Exhibition hall layout: The overall layout of the basic exhibition of Dunhuang Museum is very unique! One entrance hall and five exhibition halls are connected to each other. 🌟In the entrance hall, you can see the relief sculpture with the theme of "The City of Hu and Rong" as soon as you enter the door, and the distribution map of Dunhuang and surrounding cultural relics, the chronology of major events in ancient Dunhuang, and the table of historical changes in Dunhuang are introduced around. 🌟The first exhibition hall presents the vigorous development of Dunhuang in the Han Dynasty 🌟The second exhibition hall shows the continuous progress of Dunhuang during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties 🌟The third exhibition hall shows the prosperity of Dunhuang during the Sui and Tang Dynasties 🌟The fourth exhibition hall tells the story of the Tubo and the Five Dynasties and the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties 🌟The fifth exhibition hall reflects the development of Dunhuang in the Qing Dynasty. 🌈Highlights: 1⃣️Lettuce and firewood (national first-class cultural relics, Han Great Wall) 2⃣️Go pieces, which are black and white pebbles polished here, but were tributes at that time. These stones can be picked up on the Gobi Desert in Dunhuang. 3⃣️Bamboo slips, a large number of bamboo slips were unearthed in Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi, recording the stories of the Silk Road more than 2,000 years ago. 4⃣️Painted wall bricks 5⃣️Tang Dynasty flower bricks 6⃣️Northern Liang stone pagoda 7⃣️Tang Dynasty tomb guardian beast (with Western style) 8⃣️Chain mail 9⃣️Mogao Grottoes No. 45 replica cave 🔟Some scriptures in the Sutra Cave (such as the Book of Clouds, etc.) 🌿A general history of Dunhuang, you can learn about the development of Dunhuang. 🍀There are many national first-class cultural relics, highlighting the status of Dunhuang (Shazhou). 🌵The cultural and creative products are more simple and worth buying. 🌳It can be linked to many historical events in Zhangye, Gaotai, and Chang'an, and corroborate each other.
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