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Wutai Mountain is the biggest mogao grottoes murals which is 5 m high, 13.5 meters long.
The Mogao grottoes in Xixia and Yuan Dynasty existing 85 caves. It all follows the style of before in the middle of Xixia. And it appeared the Ancient King’s （回鹘 王）caverns imag Architecture:
At present there are 492 grottoes left, with a total area of fresco occupying 45000 square meters, and 2400 colored sculpture. 492 caves preserve more than 2000 color statues and 45000 square meters of mural.
Colored Glaze: The history of Mogao grotto art for main body have Buddha, Buddha like, King Kong, and so on. painted colorful form with a plastic, floating plastic, plastic film, and so on. It is very beautiful and historical.
The Five Dynasties and song period, the grottoes existing more than 100. Many for rebuilding and remake of the grotto fresco statue room and it's all follows the style of the Late Tang Dynasty. But more to later period, the more show formulation .
The Style Change of The Mogao Grottoes:
The existing 492 grottoes, cardinal principle can be divided into four phases: the Northern Dynasties , Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and Song, Xixia and Yuan.
●The Art Characteristics of The Mogao Grottoes ● The Style Change of The Mogao Grottoes
The Art Characteristics of The Mogao Grottoes: 1. Architecture 2. Colored Glaze (彩塑) 3. Wall Painting
There are Zen grotto, hall grotto, the vault top grotto, shadow grotto shape, etc, and the biggest grotto attributes more than 40 meters high type, wide 30 meters square; The smallest did not wide Ying Chi .
These grotto type reflect the ancient artists in foreign art, at the same time they decide to digestion and absorption to make it become China's national form, many of which is the extant ancient architectural masterpiece.
Wall Painting:
Grotto fresco richly colorful. There are all kinds of Buddhist stories, mountains and scenery, pavilions and other buildings picture, landscape painting, flowers design, flying figure of Buddha, and at that time people in the labor production in various scenes. The ancient art house in nationalization, and on the basis of India from Iran, countries such as Greece ancient art long, the Chinese nation is a symbol of dynasty developed civilization murals show different painting style, reflecting China feudal society's political and economic and cultural conditions, is the ancient Chinese glorious chapter of art history
The Sui and Tang Dynasties is the development of the mogao grottoes heyday. There are more than 300 existing caves in a large number of halls grotto. The statue is round model, the style of more central plains. This period the mogao grottoes of mural theme is rich, fine arts skills to unprecedented levels
Digging in the Northern Dynasties’ cave were 36. Grotto type is mainly Zen grotto, center pillar grotto, mural content have of Buddha, buddhist stories, such as GongYangRen. This period to shadow plastic flying, support bodhisattva and thousand Buddhas murals of earth as more red for the impression which have the characteristics of western Buddhism. After Xiwei, the more white, with the style