What kind of god is Feitian and what kind of art is it?

Apsara is the incarnation of Gandharva, the god of song, and Kinnara, the god of music.

Feitian is the business card of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, and a symbol of Dunhuang art. Just see the graceful flying sky. People will think of the art of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes. Among the 492 caves in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, almost all have flying apsaras painted on them. A total of more than 4,500 bodies. There are so many of them that it can be said that they are the most preserved grottoes among the Buddhist grottoes and temples in the world and in China.

artistic image

From the artistic image of Dunhuang Feitian, it is not the artistic image of one culture, but a complex of multiple cultures. Although the hometown of Feitian is in India, Dunhuang Feitian is the culmination of Indian culture, Western Region culture, and Central Plains culture. It is a flying apsara with Chinese cultural characteristics that has been integrated into one through long-term exchanges and events between Buddhist heavenly beings and Taoist feathered beings, as well as the flying apsaras from the Western Regions and the flying apsaras from the Central Plains.

It has no wings, no feathers, no round light, relies on clouds instead of relying on clouds, and mainly relies on its flowing clothes and flying ribbons to soar in the sky. Dunhuang Feitian can be said to be the most genius creation of a Chinese artist and a miracle in the history of world art.