Chapter 609 Tianlongshan Grottoes
For such a reason, everyone had nothing to say, and secretly gave Han Lang a silence in his heart. When he was wrong, when he met the wrong person in the wrong place, he would naturally have the wrong end.
"Okay, let's not mention him." Qiao Yu smiled and said, "Teacher, I'm really troubled you today..."
As he said that, the doorbell suddenly rang, and everyone was surprised: "Is it because Han Langxin was unwilling to accept it and ran back with shamelessness?"
"It shouldn't be so." Wang Guan blinked and took the initiative to walk over and open the door. He saw a middle-aged man in his forties standing outside. The two met, and both sides were a little surprised.
"Are you?" The middle-aged man was a little confused: "Is Mr. Tao at home?"
Seeing that it was not Han Lang, Wang Guan hurriedly took a few steps away and turned around and said, "Old Tao, your guest."
"who?"
Mr. Tao looked over and was a little surprised: "Xiao Zhang, why are you here?"
"Old Tao, something big happened."
At the right time, the middle-aged man walked in with an anxious look on his face: "There is a mural in the grotto. I don't know why, many fragments fell off overnight. Everyone studied for a long time but found no specific reason, so they sent me to ask Mr. Tao for help."
"What?" Old Tao was surprised: "How could it fall off for no reason?"
"I just don't know, so I asked Mr. Tao to take a look." The middle-aged man said worriedly: "If you have time, please be sure to follow me this time."
"Okay." Old Tao agreed without thinking, and then turned around and said, "Xiaoyu, I have something to do now. You can stay here with your friends or go out shopping."
"Are the grottoes on Tianlong Mountain?" Wang Guan was a little curious. According to his understanding, the famous places and historical sites in Jinyang, besides the Jin Temple, are more famous. Of course, there are also landscapes such as Chunyang Palace and Longshan Grottoes.
"Why, do you want to go and have a look?"
Qiao Yu's eyes rolled, then pulled Beiye and smiled, "Then let's go together, so that grandpa would not come to catch people. It would be safer to stay by the teacher."
"You are just a ghost." Old Tao smiled helplessly and said, "You can do whatever you want."
While speaking, Mr. Tao returned to his room to hide the textbook of Qianzizi, then took out a document, and then called everyone out, got into the middle-aged man's car, and headed straight for the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes.
Tianlong Mountain, originally named Fangshan, is located in the southwest of Jinyang. There are endless mountains, and the mountains of Tianlong Mountain are winding and winding, and have been a scenic spot with beautiful scenery since ancient times.
At the beginning, there must be no grottoes on the mountain. Until the Eastern Wei period during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Prime Minister Gao Huan entered Bingzhou (Jinyang) and became a different capital. He built a summer palace in Tianlong Mountain. After two grottoes were dug, the Northern Qi Dynasty also built temples and caves here. Then the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties continued.
After nearly a thousand years of development, Tianlong Mountain has become one of the top ten famous grottoes in my country.
Not long after, Wang Guan and others came to this famous grotto. Like many cultural landscapes, it inevitably became a tourist attraction.
Anyway, when I arrived at my destination, Wang Guan saw many tourists taking photos nearby after getting off the bus.
Putting aside the caves built on the mountain, the scenery of Tianlong Mountain is still good, with green pines and lush trees, beautiful peaks and gurgling springs. Even if there are no caves on the mountain, this place is a good place to visit. However, at this time, everyone had no intention of visiting, and directly followed the middle-aged people to avoid tourists and slowly penetrated into the inside of the cave.
After walking along the way, Wang Guan also saw Buddha statues with different attitudes but very dignified and wonderful appearances. However, what made him feel heartbroken and regretful was that most of the Buddha statues were incomplete and obviously suffered serious damage.
Wang Guan also knew that some of this kind of cruel phenomenon were too long, and the Buddha statues themselves were weathered and broken, while others were caused by humans. Artificial destruction was also divided into two categories: one was the "good thing" done by one's own people, and the other was the "masterpiece" of foreigners.
In the late Qing Dynasty, especially during the Republic of China, many exquisite works such as Buddha statues, flying sky, reliefs, caissons, etc. were robbed and stolen in the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes. According to incomplete statistics, more than 150 fine carvings in Tianlong Mountain were stolen abroad and lost to Japan, the United States, France and other places, resulting in the destruction of them.
Of course, when you are heartbroken, don’t ignore it. Sometimes, your own people are even more stubborn. After knowing that these things are valuable, you don’t need foreigners to be deceived and take the initiative to steal them and deliver them to your door.
Comparing it, which type of people do you think is more hateful? Anyway, Wang Guan said that it may be the despicable act of angering foreigners in taking advantage of the situation and hating their own people for being incompetent.
No one can argue about the reasons for the various history, which is right and wrong, and now is not the time to discuss this issue. At this time, under the guidance of middle-aged people, everyone slowly came to a cave.
The staff who managed the cave were not stupid either. After discovering abnormalities in the cave murals early in the morning, they immediately blocked the cave and set up a cordon, saying that they wanted to maintain the Buddha statues and would not be opened to the public for the time being.
The grottoes on the mountain are very large, and there are even more Buddha statues. The situation of each grotto is different. It is necessary to maintain and maintain it every once in a while to prevent the stone statue from weathering. Therefore, tourists are not surprised by this excuse. Seeing that the road is blocked, they took the opportunity to change the way to see other grottoes.
However, the cover can only be covered for a while, but not for a lifetime. There is no airtight wall in the world. If the reason cannot be found out as soon as possible and the mural is restored, the matter will be exposed sooner or later.
At that time, it was hard to say for others, but the management of the grottoes must be at the forefront. In addition, it was okay. Once something happened, in order to soothe public opinion, a few people would be used as scapegoats to calm the storm as soon as possible. As the head of the management department, the director XX would definitely be the first to bear the brunt.
So the director was very anxious. When he heard that Mr. Tao was coming, he rushed over to greet him as if he saw a life-saving straw.
It was also a shame that the director with a big belly could run, as if a gust of wind passed by, and appeared in front of Old Tao in a blink of an eye, saying respectfully: "Old sir, please give me everything." A hint of pleading was faintly contained in his voice.
"I'll check the situation first." Old Tao was very cold and ignored the director and came directly to the mural.
At this moment, Wang Guan could see clearly that the murals on the wall really looked like undecorated cement rooms. After the rainy weather, they were shining by strong sunlight, and the limes on the wall were scattered like snowflakes.
As we all know, the painting of the mural is painted on the stone wall with various mineral pigments, which has formed a beautiful mural. However, now that the stone wall has fallen off the skin, the mural will naturally be damaged, becoming vague, and completely lacking in the past style.
"Old Tao."
At the same time, a manager, who was eager to defend himself or had a good relationship with Mr. Tao, took the initiative to come up and explained: "From the surveillance video, no one went in and out of the cave at night, and judging from the scattered distribution of the stone slabs, it was not like a man-made result..."
Old Tao nodded slightly, observed for a while, and turned around and asked, "What are your conclusions?"
"Old Tao, we initially believe that it is the cause of climate change."
Several people looked at each other and pushed me and asked me to speak boldly: "After all, the climate has been a little recurring recently, with heavy rain pouring and scorching sun hanging high. This kind of heat expands and shrinks, and the murals fall off naturally..."
"Breaking the truth."
Mr. Tao's expression turned cold and he shouted bluntly: "I know that the mural is preserved quite well, at least it is much better than the mural of the cave next door. If it is thermal expansion, cold shrinkage and cracking, the next door should be the first to suffer."
"Besides, even if it is due to thermal expansion and contraction, there should be a process. First, there are slight cracks, and then slowly spreads, and most of them will fall off overnight." While speaking, Old Tao glanced at him, "Unless you all neglect your duties, you have never noticed cracks on the mural."
In an instant, the director's eyes lit up. If it was the employee's responsibility, then he would be fine. However, several managers quickly shook their heads and said that they had patrols every day. When they watched yesterday, there was absolutely no problem with the mural...
"Don't make a noise."
Mr. Tao waved his hand and continued to analyze: "Besides, the climate on the mountain is very stable, and it is not affected much whether it is severe cold or hot summer, so the heat expansion and contraction can be directly eliminated."
"What does Mr. Tao think is the reason?" the director asked quickly. As long as Mr. Tao thinks it is the manager who neglects his duties, then he has a reason to shirk.
Under the gaze of several managers, Old Tao pondered for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's hard to say now. Can you be sure that only the murals of this cave have problems?"
"That's right." A manager nodded quickly and said, "After finding that the murals here fell off, we immediately carefully checked the situation of each cave, but found that only this mural was affected, so we found it very strange."
It is indeed strange. If there are problems with the murals of several caves, it must be a natural factor. However, if only one cave has such a situation, then it is even more likely to be artificial.
Everyone is not a fool, so naturally he knows that the reason for heat expansion and contraction is untenable, so he hurriedly invited Mr. Tao over. Even if the reason cannot be found, there is still a way to remedy it.
Chapter completed!