What is the significance of flying in Dunhuang murals?

When ancient Buddhism didn't come, because Taoism advocated nature, it was rarely used to carve mountains and crack stones, but China's flying sky was painted on the mural of the tomb, symbolizing that the soul of the tomb owner could ascend to heaven. There are all kinds of immortals in the tomb buried with Yu people.

There were immortal scenes in the tombs of the Warring States and even earlier, which became more popular with the spread of immortal thought and early Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. After Buddhism was introduced into China, it exchanged and merged with Taoism in China. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, when Buddhism began to spread, the flying immortals in murals were also called flying immortals, which was the difference between flying immortals and flying immortals.

With the in-depth development of Buddhism in China, the flying of Buddhism and the flying fairy of Taoism are integrated in artistic image. Flying in Dunhuang refers to the flying god painted in Dunhuang Grottoes, which later became a special term for Dunhuang mural art unique to China.

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Dunhuang murals are the main part of Dunhuang art, with huge scale and exquisite skills. Dunhuang murals are rich in content. Like other religious arts, it is an art that describes the image, activities and relationship between God and man, in order to pin people's good wishes and appease people's hearts. Therefore, the style of mural painting is different from that of secular painting.

However, any art originates from real life, and any art has its national tradition. Therefore, most of their forms come from the same artistic language and expression techniques and have the same national style. Dunhuang frescoes are also called Thousand Buddha Cave. It is also one of the four largest grottoes in China and is listed as a world cultural heritage.

As far as artistic image is concerned, Dunhuang Tian Fei is not a cultural and artistic image, but a synthesis of various cultures. Although Tian Fei's hometown is in India, Tian Fei in Dunhuang was bred by Indian culture, western culture and Central Plains culture.

It is a flying sky with China cultural characteristics. It is a long-term exchange between Indian Buddhist heaven and human beings and China Taoist feather people, flying in the western regions and flying in the Central Plains. It is a flying sky without wings, feathers and round light, relying on clouds rather than relying on them, mainly relying on flowing dresses and fluttering ribbons. Flying in Dunhuang can be said to be the most talented creation of China artists and a miracle in the world art history.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tian Fei (Dunhuang Mural)