Why did the Turpan School become so popular as a "rare and unique subject"?
2023-08-29
Recently, the 6th International Academic Symposium on Turpan Studies was held in Turpan City, Xinjiang. This academic seminar focuses on the theme of "Inheritance and Development of Turpan Studies in the New Era", attracting more than 100 experts and scholars from both domestic and foreign countries to gather together to discuss and share the new discoveries and achievements of Turpan Studies. They also conducted on-site inspections of the ruins of the West Side Nestorian Temple and the Tuyugou Grottoes. The 6th International Academic Symposium on Turpan Studies opened on August 21st in Turpan, Xinjiang. What does Gou Jipeng mean by Turpan Studies? Turpan is an important town on the Silk Road, and it is also an oasis basin with minimal rainfall. A large number of various ancient cultural relics and literature in various languages have been preserved, providing raw materials for the study of Turpan studies. Since the early 20th century, many explorers from both the East and the West have excavated a large amount of literature and cultural relics in the Turpan region. Scholars from many countries have also engaged in research in this field and achieved significant results. This knowledge is known as Turpan studies. Its main research object is the ancient tombs, ancient city sites, cave temples, and cultural relics excavated from these ruins around Turpan, with rich connotations and extensions. In the long history of thousands of years of development in China, Turpan occupies a unique position with profound cultural heritage and historical sedimentation. It connects Europe and Asia, connects the Silk Road, and agricultural culture, nomadic culture, and oasis culture intersect here. The seven major religions and four major civilizations blend here, making it a representative historical and cultural city on the Silk Road and a fertile land for the breeding of Turpan studies. "As an important transportation town on the ancient Silk Road, thousands of years of trade exchanges, civilization exchanges, and cultural exchanges have precipitated a rich and colorful historical and cultural heritage in Turpan, which has also produced a national" unique "study of Turpan." Gu Yucai, former deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the National Cutural Heritage Administration, said. Turpan studies first appeared in the Dunhuang Turpan studies proposed by Mr. Ji Xianlin, covering multiple disciplines such as history, archaeology, religion, murals, language, astronomy, and calendar. Over the past century, with the joint efforts of a group of well-known domestic and foreign scholars such as Huang Wenbi, Ji Xianlin, and Tang Changru, a large number of academic works such as "Turpan Excavated Documents" and "Newly Discovered Turpan Excavated Documents" have been published, and their international influence continues to expand, Turfan Studies has gradually grown into an international outstanding study that keeps pace with Dunhuang Studies and has made remarkable contributions to the inheritance of Chinese excellent culture. Gu Yucai said that in order to carry forward the cause of Turpan Studies, continue to inherit the country's "unique and unexpected learning", and promote the vigorous development of cultural relics in the new era, the National Cutural Heritage Administration has attached great importance to the protection and utilization of Turpan cultural relics and the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage for many years, and has carried out infrastructure construction, mural protection and restoration, archaeological excavation Provide careful guidance and strong support in the protection and repair of cultural relics, injecting endless vitality and vitality into the inheritance and development of Turpan culture. For a long time, the study of Turpan studies has attracted the attention of renowned universities, research institutions, and many experts and scholars both domestically and internationally, and has a wide influence worldwide. During the seminar
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