Dunhuang Grottoes are all inclusive and rich in animal images, including the figure of tigers. The year of the tiger is coming. Let’s look for the tiger in Dunhuang Grottoes!

Tiger walking monk

Tiger walking monk silk paintings collected by Jimei Museum, France

This painting, unearthed in the Sutra cave of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and now stored in the Jimei Museum in France, is a fine work in the painting of “walking monk” with delicate strokes and elegant colors. The main image of the picture is a walking monk with a high nose and deep eyes, a curly beard, a scripture collection on his back and a rosary in his hand. The monk was accompanied by a tiger, whose eyes were wide open and swaggered forward, majestic.

The painter also endowed the tiger on his side with the perseverance of the walking monk who was not afraid of danger and forge ahead bravely. In the long journey, one person and one tiger go together. All loneliness and difficulties turn into inner clarity. In the new year, may you move forward bravely with awe on the road of life.

Tigers in the mountains

Tiger in the forest cave 249 of Mogao Grottoes in the Western Wei Dynasty

There is a picture of hunting in the mountain forest draped on the north of the top of cave 249 in Mogao Grottoes: a fierce tiger leaped over the mountain and valley, opened its eyes and breathed out, and jumped at the riding hunter with a thunderous momentum. The hunter reined in his horse, pulled the bow and arrow, and was agile. The painter accurately captured the tense moment when the hunter confronted the tiger with extremely concise, smooth and unrestrained pen and ink.

The tiger in the picture is outlined with red earth lines, which contain dynamic beauty, and incisively and vividly express the tiger’s ferocity, vigor and elation. I wish you a prosperous and prosperous new year.

Female tiger and young tiger

Female tiger and young tiger cave 301, Mogao Grottoes, Northern Zhou Dynasty

The story of Buddha Bensheng records all kinds of good deeds of Sakyamuni Buddha in his previous life. Prince Sasaki Bensheng tells the story of the Buddha’s previous life as Prince Sasaki, who used his own body to rescue the mother tiger and young tiger. The story uses extreme situations to promote the core feelings of compassion and dedication.

The South phi and the East Phi on the top of cave 301 in Mogao Grottoes draw the story of Prince Saku sacrificing his life to feed the tiger in the form of comic book, in which one of the pictures of South phi is quite moving. In the picture, the female tiger sits and looks back with affectionate eyes, staring at the seven tiger cubs around. Some of them lie on the ground with their small hips pursed, some stare at the raised claws, some wave their four feet as a coquettish, some look around and smell… They are naive. The painter portrayed this warm company as the eternal beauty on the wall, adding a touch of home warmth to the Dunhuang murals.

With the warm embrace of home, you can release the fatigue of the old year and start with courage in the new year. May you embrace the warmth around you and be sure of the road under your feet in the new year.

white tiger

The green dragon, white tiger, rosefinch and Xuanwu in Chinese traditional culture are called the four elephants, representing the four directions of East, West, South and north respectively. It is the white elephant of the West. According to the list of things in the Ministry of immortality and Taoism: “the God of the west is a tiger statue composed of twenty-eight Chinese and Western seven seasons, Kui, Lou, stomach, Pleiades, Bi, mouth and ginseng. It is located in the West and has white color, so it is called white tiger”.

Cave 431 of white tiger Mogao Grottoes Northern Wei Dynasty

Inside the flat chess on the top of cave 431 in Mogao Grottoes, there is a white tiger, which first appeared in Dunhuang murals as one of the four gods. The images of white tiger, green dragon and rosefinch in the picture are cleverly combined with the surrounding plant patterns. While enriching the content of murals, they also have decorative effects, reflecting the painter’s rich imagination and exaggerated artistic processing skills.

Cave 249, Mogao Grottoes, Zhenyi white tiger, Western Wei Dynasty

The ceiling of cave 249 in Mogao Grottoes is draped in the south, and a white tiger is also painted. It opened its mouth and tongue, raised its head and wings, galloped in the air, galloped and jumped in the cave with rosefinch, Xuanwu and Qinglong, and guarded the four directions. In the new year, I wish you every success in your career.

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(editor in charge: Zheng Jiewen)

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