Shanghai hosts art exhibition on Silk Road

An art exhibition with works of 222 artists from 70 Belt and Road    1    （country）has opened in Shanghai. Co-sponsored by the Chinese Artists Association and Shanghai Art Museum, the exhibition,    2    （name） “Our Home-The Belt and Road Nations' Art Exhibition," runs until March 31, 2021.

Chinese sculptor Wu Weishan's creation is a major    3    （attract）of the event. The bronze statues of Leonardo Da Vinci and Chinese painter Qi Baishi standing next    4    each other have brought time to a standstill（停顿）.

Oil painting Turpan,    5    was created with sand from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, depict（描绘）a    6    （gold）sky, mountains, valleys and rivers, said Alberto Manai, director of the Italian Institute of Culture Shanghai. The painting is full of strong and warm emotions, enabling people from different cultures and regions    7    （feel）the grand and profound charm of the Silk Road.

At a time when offline art activities    8    （cancel）around the world, Shanghai is hosting such    9    exhibition. It conveys a warm and important message that we humans are still interdependent,    10    （share）one family and beauty together.

Fan Jinshi, an archaeologist (考古学家) from Beijing University, first visited the Mogao caves as an undergraduate student in 1962. Despite the cave’s tough     1    (condition). Fan was determined to study national cultural heritage and stayed to pursue her dream.

Over time, Fan’s commitment to preserving national cultural heritage grew     2    (strong) . She joined the Communist Party of China in 1974 and became even more determined to protect the Mogao caves when they were officially open to tourists in 1979.     3    (face) with the challenge of balancing conservation and tourism, Fan knew that a solution had to be found. She was convinced that the caves’ social importance far outweighed (超过) their economic potential (潜力) and that scientific protection was the key to their     4    (survive).

In the late 1980s, Fan came up with     5    innovative (新颖的) plan to digitize the Mogao caves permanently preserving the murals (壁画), painted cultures, and historical data. In 2016 Digital Dunhuang     6    (launch) online, allowing people worldwide     7    (enjoy) comprehensive images of the caves.

In her eighties, Fan Jinshi is as busy as before working     8    (tireless) to conserve and manage the caves. She hopes that young people will carry     9    the “Mogao Spirit” and build a better Dunhuang Academy (学院),     10    she spent her lifetime. “Let this be my epitaph, Fan says, “I’ve done all I could for Dunhuang.”