There are more than 1000 music and dance murals in the Mogao grottoes, and the painting time spans from the Northern Liang Dynasty of Sixteen Countries to the Qing Dynasty, spanning 1500 years. Among them, the murals in the Tang Dynasty are the most spectacular. There are also/kloc-handwritten music scores and dance scores of the Tang and Five Dynasties more than 0/000 years ago. The famous missile pipa is a masterpiece of music and dance murals, which has already flown out of Dunhuang and gone to the world. However, more and more magnificent music and dance scenes, the unique images of dozens of musical instruments and other sacred and beautiful music murals are little known. There are many forms of music and dance on Dunhuang murals, which are painted in different positions according to Buddhist theory and are very particular.
On the highest floor, there is a group of musical instruments hanging in the void with colored ribbons, including pipa. No one plays the piano, sheng, flute, waist drum, etc. This is the so-called natural sound without drums. In fact, this is a method of painting music invented by ancient Chinese painters. According to Buddhist theory, if you practice singing Lotte for more than 33 days, the scenery will be bright and bright, and it will always be daytime, and the music will be self-made. Self-singing is this realm.
The music of the Heavenly Palace, the music of Tian Fei, Lifo's music and dance, feather man's music and medicine are in descending order.
Ji Le in Tiangong is a fairy who walks around in a cave. They wear long scarves, are half naked, or play musical instruments or dance with their bare hands.
Tian Fei geisha music is music that flies out of the Tiangong geisha hall. They form a huge dance queue in the sky, dancing lightly, like flowing clouds.
Buddha dance is a ritual and entertainment scene in the painting. Painted in the most eye-catching place in the middle of the cave wall, the picture is huge and numerous. For example, in Cave 220 in the early Tang Dynasty, there was a band of 26 people, divided into two groups, two singers and four female dancers, dancing in a row on a small round carpet. Two of them danced in brocade, trousers, gauze skirts, jewels, bracelets and ribbons. The other two were naked, wearing tassels and holding colorful ribbons in their hands, spinning in circles greatly. The atmosphere is very warm. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Cave 1 12 was a famous rebounding pipa dance with as many as1person. A good-natured female dancer focuses on her right foot, lifts her left leg, puts her back forward and bounces back.
Feather geisha and medicine fork geisha are both guardians of the gods. The former is a bird with a human face, and the latter is a mighty warrior who often plays musical instruments or dances in classic paintings.
The music and dance scenes of these gods account for more than 90% of the whole music and dance mural, which is dizzying. Except those flying geisha, other music and dance scenes seem to be no different from those on earth. Some musical instruments are still in use until now. A variety of dances have also been merged by modern experts to create an ancient Dunhuang dance, whose masterpiece is the famous Silk Road Rain.