The Development History Of Gansu Caves

Gansu as a place once The Skill Road through, preserve various kinds of extremelyprecious historical and culture heritage. Buddhist caves is the point shows the fusionbetween the Chinese and western culture. Incomplete statistics shows that along TheSkill Road as well as the main ancient road line still more than one hundred andninety sites remain spread.There wide range,large quantity,time duration, rich contentall are half of the Chinese caves evolution.It regard as have the same values on theCave art,history of Buddhism, history research.Based on geographical characteristics, Caves in Gansu Province can be divided intofour groups:the west, Longzhong Longnan and Longdong, they shows intertwinedwith the influence one another also share their benefits parts. Among themrespectively have about forty, thirty, forty and seventy.The found of Caves in Gansu through four stages.First,the initial detected by theexplorers from the beginning of twenty century to1930s.Second,the internationalcooperation stages from1930s to the prior to the founding of the republic ofChina.Third, government estimate and protection.After the founding of thegovernment to the prior to the Cultural Revolution. Fourth,scientific archaeologicalexcavations and protection after the Cultural Revolution.We can apparentlydiscovered the development of our country’s cave temple our country’s from theCaves in Gansu Province.From initially Foreign explore to under the internationalcooperation research then eventually to the totally independent research and protectby ourselves.And with the help of gradually use archaeological method we now haveCaves and archaeology.After the Cultural Revolution the middle and the small Cavesattracts more and more attention of the scientist in our country.we begin let these partof culture into system and scientific,strengthen the protection,have a furtherimprovement on this subject.