Affected by Jishishan County, Gansu Province 6Seven days after being closed for seven days due to the impact of Level 2**, the Bingling Temple Grottoes reopened to the public at 9 o'clock this morning (December 26). On the morning of the 26th, the reporter from Nandu immediately dialed the ** of the Liujiaxia Dam Wharf Tourist Service Center near the grottoes, and the staff said that on the first day of the reopening of the Bingling Temple Grottoes, the number of tourists was roughly the same. The cultural relics in the grotto were not damaged in this **, and the staff has carried out safety inspections on the infrastructure at various places.
Bingling Temple Grottoes Xinhua News Agency.
At 23:59 on December 18, 6Level 2**. The Bingling Temple Grottoes, located in Yongjing County, a neighboring county, decided to suspend the opening to the public from 9 o'clock on December 19 in order to ensure the personal safety of tourists.
On December 20, the reporter from Nandu learned from the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics that after the on-site investigation of the working group, it was confirmed that the statues, murals, cave niches and other cultural relics in the grottoes of Bingling Temple were not damaged. However, rockfalls appeared at the mountain gate of the grotto and in the river channel of the cave area, and cracks appeared in the wall on the side of the management and protection room near the mountain gate.
On December 25, the staff of the Institute of Cultural Relics Protection of Bingling Temple in Gansu Province introduced that safety inspections and hidden dangers have been carried out on the cave cultural relics, cliff plank roads, infrastructure, etc., to meet the requirements of opening. After research, it was decided that the Bingling Temple Grottoes would be reopened to the public from 9 o'clock on December 26.
Bingling Temple Grottoes data map.
The grottoes of Bingling Temple were officially built in the first year of Jianhong of the Western Qin Dynasty (420 AD), and then through the continuous construction of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Western Xia Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and other dynasties, and gradually became a famous grotto group with a variety of artistic styles intertwined. In 1961, it was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and in 2014, it was included in the list of world cultural heritage as one of the heritage sites of "Silk Road: Road Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor". For the majority of cultural relics lovers, it can be called a wonderful treasure trove of art.
Jishishan County 6After the occurrence of level 2**, the grotto staff told the reporter in Nandu that all the personnel were safe. According to the relevant person in charge of the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, after the incident, the bureau attached great importance to the damage to the Bingling Temple Grottoes, and immediately set up a working group to check the scene, guide the emergency rescue, and arrange the follow-up cultural relics protection work.
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