Tianshan Mural Painting

The Aksu region of Xinjiang contains the thousand-year legacy of ancient Kucha. Among them, the Kizil Thousand Buddha Cave has become a representative of Kucha culture with its exquisite murals and unique artistic style, and is also known as the "Second Dunhuang in China". On the cave wall, the compassion of the Buddha who sacrificed his life to feed the tigers is intertwined with the smoke and smoke of the ancient Kucha people driving the camels and playing the pipa on the beams, carving the code of the Silk Road civilization into the folds of the Gobi. However, under the influence of plunder by early foreign expeditions and erosion of the natural environment, these brilliant colors are peeling off inch by inch and turned into the dust of history. The "mural doctor" chooses one thing to devote his life to, repairing the cracks of time with meticulous ingenuity, so that the thousand-year-old murals can regain their splendor and the cultural treasures can be passed down forever.