Dunhuang, my hometown, is a famous town on the ancient Silk Road in China. It is like a green pearl, embedded in the vast sand sea.

Dunhuang, which is not only rich in natural products, but also attracts people's attention.

Mingsha Mountain is ten miles outside Dunhuang. It is a hill made of sand, with the highest point of about 25 meters. Climb Mingsha Mountain, sit on the ridge, and slide down quickly from the height. Dust will fly with the movement of the body. When the sand flow increases, you will hear the buzzing sound, and with the increase of quicksand, the sound will gradually increase to the buzzing sound like thunder. There is a crescent-shaped lake at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by quicksand. For thousands of years, the lake has never dried up and has not been submerged by quicksand. It turns out that after the fine sand has spilled down the mountain, the evening wind will blow them back to the top of the mountain. The wind gently brushed the weeds on the shore, and the lake was like a piece of green satin, reflecting the blue sky, white clouds and Mingsha Mountain, quietly rippling with charming microwaves.

Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, a world-famous Buddhist grottoes, is located on the steep wall of Mingsha Mountain, which is 15m long. A clear spring water gushed from the foot of Mingsha Mountain, meandered away and disappeared into the gravel. There are flowers and plants everywhere, ancient trees are towering, birds are contending, and the whole Mogao grottoes are hidden in a green embrace, with beautiful and quiet scenery. Oh! How amazing, like being cut by an axe, the steep cliff is full of caves, large and small, like honeycombs and dovecotes, which go up layer by layer to the top of the cliff. The wooden verandahs and suspended plank roads outside the grottoes make the whole grottoes seamless and spectacular.

According to ancient inscriptions, in 366 AD, a monk named Le Zun traveled to Dunhuang. At dusk, leaning on xizhang, he went to the foot of Sanxing Mountain near Dunhuang and saw the golden light on the top of the mountain at sunset, as if showing the image of a thousand buddhas. He believed that this Lingshan would be the holy land of the Buddha, so he decided to dig a Buddha cave on the cliff opposite the mountain, which was the first cave in Dunhuang. Then there were monks who dug a second cave next to this cave. The Mogao Grottoes were born. In the next 1 years, it has been built one after another, becoming the largest, most preserved and highest artistic value Buddhist art cave group in the world.

There are 492 grottoes with murals and statues in the Mogao Grottoes, with more than 2,41 painted clay sculptures, and the murals are vast, with a total area of more than 45, square meters. If these rare treasures are arranged, a gallery with a length of 5 Li can be formed. Here visitors can see the flying fairies dancing lightly. They can sing and dance freely, and they are the most beautiful and kind symbols in ancient times, showing the extraordinary artistic imagination of ancient artists. You can also see many clay sculptures, some simple and docile, some quiet and comely, some mighty and strong, and they are lifelike in different shapes and patterns; You can also see exquisite murals, among which the bouncing pipa-playing, vivid in image and graceful in dance, is a masterpiece of Dunhuang art.

Dunhuang, my hometown, is attracting thousands of Chinese and foreign tourists for sightseeing with its rich products and strange scenery, especially the world-famous Dunhuang art, and is making an important contribution to spreading the world cultural heritage.