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敦煌，它实在是太遥远了，也许正如余秋雨先生所说“它因华美而矜持，它因富有而远藏。它执意要让每一个朝圣者，用长途的艰辛来换取报偿”。
In fact, Dunhuang is the only place in the world where you can admire massive amounts of murals and sculptures that are the heritage of hundreds of years of cultural exchange and cross-influence.
But it is the forgotten part of history – the events and stories that were never recorded in any way – that is most intriguing.
For ten nights, a TV documentary series about the visible and invisible history of Dunhuang aired on CCTV, China's official national TV network.
I got the chance to talk to its director, Zhou Bing, who told me so much about both his documentary and the city that I just have to share it with you here.
Reporter:
One day in 1900, a young Taoist named Wang Yuanlu discovered a cave stuffed with aged silk scrolls.
It is impossible to know exactly how he encountered the cave, but in a letter to the then empress of China, Cixi, the man wrote: "My helpers and I happened to be digging into a hill with hoes, and there it was, this huge cave that contains tens of thousands of ancient scriptures, many of them Buddhist scriptures."
There were once hundreds of man-made caves with colorful murals painted on their inner walls, life-size, miniature and magnified sculptures of both Buddhist gods and believers, and more than 50,000 silk scrolls carrying Buddhist scriptures and secular documents, all accumulated just outside this small town.
