Crafts--Dunhuang colored sculptures

Dunhuang colored sculptures are the main body of Dunhuang Caves. Because the Dunhuang caves are cut into the conglomerate, most of them are wooden structures. In the man-made wooden frame bundled with reed grass, grass outside the coarse mud, then fine mud, pressed and wiped, and then applied white powder, and finally painted. Began in sixteen countries, through the Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, migratory birds, Western Xia, Yuan until the Qing Dynasty, there are still more than 3,000 bodies of colorful sculpture, of which more than 2,000 bodies of round sculpture, more than 1,000 bodies of relief sculpture. The preservation of ancient color sculpture of the many, the duration of the long, exquisite technology, for the world is rare.