Do one thing in your life

In the office building of the Dunhuang Academy there is a lifelike statue, called Youth, of a young girl with short hair. She carried her marching pack, a schoolbag slung across her shoulder, and a straw hat in her hand. Her prototype is Fan Jinshi, the national model worker, president of Dunhuang Academy, curator of literature and Humanities Research, and doctoral supervisor of Lanzhou University, who is known as the "patron saint of Dunhuang".

Originally from Zhejiang province, Fan Jinshi was born in Beijing and raised in Shanghai. In 1962, the Peking University history and archaeology major student came to Dunhuang, was immediately fascinated by the various murals, colorful sculptures and mysterious Buddhist stories in the caves. When she graduated from college in 1963, she could choose between Beijing and Shanghai, but she chose Dunhuang. There is no electricity, no running water, sand can block the sun, vegetables and fruits are a luxury... Fan Jinshi, who had been living in a big city, was a bit surprised by the living environment in Dunhuang.

In college, Fan fell in love with her classmate Peng Jinzhang, who was assigned to Wuhan University when she graduated. A year later, Peng Jinzhang traveled thousands of miles to Dunhuang to see Fan Jinshi. He found the lover changed, changed soil. Living, eating, which is not like Shanghai people, which in Beijing when the youth of the appearance. They had agreed to go back in three years, but after marriage separated for more than 20 years, thousands of miles apart, husband and wife can not reunite, mother and son can not meet. A family of 4, separated in three places, between love, family and career, Fan Jinshi constantly endured suffering, but she still chose Dunhuang. Finally, she dragged her husband from Wuhan to Dunhuang.

40 years of wind and rain and bumpy, FanJinShi involve grottoes archaeological research work, has written the mogao grottoes north Korean caves in installment, the mogao grottoes sui dynasty caves in installment, the mogao grottoes early caves in installment in tang dynasty "and other papers, completed the installment date of dunhuang mogao grottoes, explains the law of cave development in different historical periods and time characteristics. These academic achievements not only determine the age of the caves themselves, but also lay a solid foundation for various studies of Dunhuang grottoes.

In 2000, it was suggested that the Mogao Grottoes should be listed in order to increase tourism development. In order to protect Dunhuang from human harm, Fan Jinshi would rather not be the director of the Dunhuang Academy than agree, and finally stopped the act. In order to realize the permanent preservation and sustainable utilization of Dunhuang heritage, in 2003, Fan Jinshi's proposal of building a Tourist Service center in the Mogao Grottoes was adopted and is being implemented, and a new "digital Dunhuang" is slowly coming to people.

In 1987, the Mogao Grottoes were added to the World Cultural Heritage List. Among the 611 members of the World Cultural Heritage List, only three sites, including the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, all meet the six criteria of the world cultural heritage list. At the Dunhuang centennial celebration, academic master Ji Xianlin praised her, "Her merits are boundless." On September 14, 2009, he was named one of the 100 people who moved China since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Three dangerous sunrise, sunset sand, desert sand blowing white Fan Jinshi's temples, but in the hands of Fan Jinshi and her predecessors, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, washed away the dust and dust, glows again. Here solidified her youth, solidified her feelings, but also solidified her life.

"I'm going to do this one thing all my life." With the same beautiful name as the apsaras, Fan Jinshi dedicated his life to Dunhuang for the sake of the apsaras in his heart. A person, in order to their favorite cause, distractions, assiduous pursuit, struggle for life, this is a kind of persistence, a kind of persistence, is also a noble character, only in this way, there is a hopeful future, brilliant success.