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  1. Dun·huang
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    1. a town in north-western China, in Gansu province, located on the old Silk Road near the site of the earliest known Buddhist cave shrines (4th century ad).
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  2. WebFeb 20, 2021 · Dunhuang is an oasis city of 187,578 inhabitants that served as the jumping off point to the Western Regions (Xīyù 西域) in Eastern Central Asia. Aside from its strategic geographic location …

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    Situated in an oasis in the Gansu-Xinjiang desert region, it is at the far western limit of traditional Chinese settlement along the Silk Road across Central Asia. Dunhuang was the first trading town reached by foreign merchants entering Chinese-administered territory from the west.
    The city is the site of the renowned Mogao Caves, which were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987. Pop. (2005) 140,000. In ancient times Dunhuang was the point at which the two branches of the Silk Road, running around the Tarim Basin on the north and on the south, converged.
    All of the documents in Dunhuang manuscripts with literature flavour can be studied as Dunhuang literature. 78 Dunhuang Bianwen was an effective form of folk rap literature in the Tang dynasty, a new genre evolving from the literary tradition of the Han dynasty, Wei dynasty and the Six dynasties like Yuefu poems, novels, and novels rhapsody (赋).
    Therefore, Beijing, Paris, London and St. Petersburg are called the four collection centres of Dunhuang documents. Because Dunhuang documents are scattered worldwide, museum and library personnel have to register, classify and study them, and thus Dunhuang studies come into being in many countries.