Zhangye Grotto

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the ancient Chinese art of Buddhist art occupies an important position. The extension of the Great Wall Qin, Han and the opening of the Silk Road to ensure that the Buddhist culture from India, via Central Asia, Western wear, Gansu had spread to the mainland, formed a scale of the grotto art group.Trinidad Longyuan, caves clouds, Canruo stars: Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Anxi Yulin Cave, Munsu Hill in Jiuquan, Zhangye Mati Si, Wuwei Shangtianti Hill, Yongjing Bingling Si, Tianshui, and so loud the names of Maiji Mountain, won for Gansu "Chinese grotto art town" reputation. Zhangye, Gansu is located on the grotto art of the Tasi who know very little. In fact the cut of the Tasi Grottoes, as early as in "four major grottoes in China." Tasi is the Grotto of the Chinese started to dig caves cut the size of the curtain. The Tasi grotto art from India retained the grotto art in the form of features, but not missing at the time the local multi-ethnic coexistence and social life prototype. Formed a distinct features of the times, "Northern Liang Grottoes" Art: Cave of the Centre Tower, show the bone-like statues, high-meat of the decorative wall relief, a profound impact on the development of the Chinese Buddhist art.This paper by the Tasi Grottoes, the cultural background of Inquiry, the characteristics of the art of reasoning further demonstrated the Tasi Grottoes is China's earliest large-scale dig caves of the proposition, and expounded the Chinese Buddhist art of its extensive and far-reaching impact. So as to contemporary art has brought new inspiration.