△△Fan Jinshi (picture provided by Miao Yue) [Character introduction] Fan Jinshi, female, born in July 1938, was born in Beijing, grew up in Shanghai, and is originally from Hangzhou. In 1958, he was admitted to the Department of History, Peking University, majoring in archeology.

△△ Fan Jinshi (picture provided by Miao Yue)

[Character profile]

Fan Jinshi, female, was born in July 1938. She was born in Beijing, grew up in Shanghai, and is originally from Hangzhou. In 1958, he was admitted to the Department of History, Peking University, majoring in archeology. After graduating in 1963, he was assigned to the Dunhuang Cultural Relics Research Institute (the predecessor of the Dunhuang Research Institute) and has been working ever since. She once served as the third president of the Dunhuang Academy and is currently the honorary president of the Dunhuang Academy. She is known as the "Daughter of Dunhuang".

Cover News Reporter Zhang Jie Zhou Qin Dunhuang Report

"Post-80s" Fan Jinshi has been working in Dunhuang for 62 years.

"The name is very beautiful, the person is very thin, and the aura is strong." As the director of the biographical film " I Love Dunhuang " with Fan Jinshi as the protagonist, Miao Yue talked about her feelings when seeing Fan Jinshi, which can be said to be "love again". And "fear", "I believe that everyone who meets Mr. Fan can feel that aura. I am no exception. Because of the filming of "I Love Dunhuang", we need to ask Mr. Fan many times for advice and bother him many times. She. I am not only looking forward to meeting Mr. Fan, because I can get up close and get to know Mr. Fan deeply, and I can truly feel the temperament and demeanor of China's outstanding intellectuals. I am also 'afraid' of meeting Mr. Fan. She doesn't like fame or publicity. , when we film her story, we must be extremely careful and cautious, and we will inevitably be trembling with fear."

△Fan Jinshi (picture provided by Miao Yue)

After several years of careful preparation, filming, and production, on November 17, 2023, "I Love Dunhuang" Officially released in theaters nationwide. This film is adapted from Fan Jinshi's work and life experiences, and uses documentary and narrative techniques to show how scientific researchers of past generations carry out cultural relics protection work in Dunhuang. The time begins in the 1960s and continues to the present. In the film, you can see the high spirits of young Fan Jinshi, the mission and responsibilities of middle-aged Fan Jinshi, and the calmness and calmness of old Fan Jinshi. Layers of impressions cover it, depicting the thickness of Fan Jin's poet's life. Miao Yue thought of the many murals in the Mogao Grottoes, "There are many layers, covered with layers from different eras. If a person's life is compared to a mural, Fan Lao's life is also a multi-layered mural. Fan Jinshi in the film is composed by two Professional actors played her youth and middle-aged and old age respectively. Fan Jinshi, who is over eighty years old, also appeared at the end of the movie. One of the shots is particularly impressive, in which she slowly walks in front of the nine floors of the Mogao Grottoes. The eyes are clear and the steps are firm. This is not a performance, but the daily life of Fan Jinshi in countless mornings and evenings during his more than 60 years of living and working in Dunhuang."

△Chen Jin (right) and Fan Jinshi (picture provided by Miao Yue)

Winter 2023 , the cover news "Avenue" Humanities Media Reporting Team set off from Chengdu to Dunhuang to visit the Dunhuang Academy. They had close contact with Fan Jinshi at the Dunhuang premiere of the movie "I Love Dunhuang". They also met through director Miao Yue and starring Chen Jin's narration restores the story of Fan Jinshi guarding the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

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Chinese civilization lasted more than five thousand years. How do you know some of the history that has no written records? This requires archeology. It is archeology that tells people history and slowly turns unknown things into known things. In 2011, the first volume of "The Complete Collection of Dunhuang Grottoes", "The Archaeological Report on Cave 266~275 of Mogao Grottoes", which Fan Jinshi devoted his life to, was finally officially published. It is understood that the "Complete Collection of Dunhuang Grottoes" will reach approximately one hundred volumes. Only by continuous efforts from generation to generation can we hope to complete this century-old project.

In the movie "I Love Dunhuang", 73-year-old Fan Jinshi affectionately caressed the pages of the "Archaeological Report on Cave 266~275 of Mogao Grottoes", with the tender eyes of a mother looking at her young son. People who know her can understand the weight of this joy. Because there is a story about entrustment behind this archaeological report. Because this archaeological report embodies a mission that she has been thinking about for many years.

In 1958, Fan Jinshi from Shanghai was admitted to the Department of History of Peking University, majoring in archeology. At the Weiming Lake, which is filled with an inclusive atmosphere, she was immersed in a realistic and innovative academic atmosphere and received a top-notch archaeological education.There, she was influenced by the spiritual culture of Peking University and found her lifelong love of career direction, life and soul mate.

In the summer of 1963, Fan Jinshi graduated and was assigned to work at the Dunhuang Research Institute. One day before leaving school, Mr. Su Bingqi, a leading figure in archeology who was the director of the Archeology Teaching and Research Section of the Department of History at Peking University, specially called Fan Jinshi to his residence in Langrunyuan of Peking University to have a conversation with her. In the autobiography "My Heart Is in Dunhuang: Fan Jinshi's Autobiography", Fan Jinshi recalled what Mr. Su told her at that time, "You are going to Dunhuang. In the future you will have to prepare an archaeological report, which is an important matter for archeology. For example, if you study the Han Dynasty In history, people will ask, have you read "Historical Records"? Have you read "Hanshu"? They will not ask you whether you have read so-and-so's article. Archaeological reports are like the Twenty-Four Histories, they are very important and must be obtained. Do it well."

△Screenshot from the e-book "My Heart Is in Dunhuang: Fan Jinshi's Autobiography"

After hearing these words, Fan Jinshi suddenly realized that "the school assigned me to the Mogao Grottoes, in fact, to give me an archaeological My important task is to complete the archaeological research on the Dunhuang Grottoes. Now that I recall Mr. Su’s instructions before leaving, I truly understand the weight of them. Every time I recall this situation, I can never forget Mr. Su’s affable words. Encouragement and sincere teachings. The meeting with him seemed like just yesterday. It made me feel more cordial and this mission was heavy. But I didn’t know whether I had the ability to complete this mission. In Step Out Lang At that moment in Runyuan, I was in a daze, and I repeatedly asked myself: 'Can I complete it?'"

Before officially going to Dunhuang to work, Fan Jinshi went back to his home in Shanghai and spent the last summer vacation of his college years. Fan Jinshi was born in Hangzhou on July 9, 1938 in Peiping. Fan Jinshi's father, Fan Jilin, worked as an engineer in the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry in Peking after graduating from Tsinghua University. Later, due to his father's job change, the family moved to Shanghai. Fan Jinshi described her father in her autobiography: "He is very good at foreign languages ​​and loves Chinese classical art and culture very much." Under his father's guidance, Fan Jinshi, a young man, would memorize "Guwen Guanzhi" and listen to Pingtan and Kun Opera. His favorite was Liu Tianyun's " "Lin Chong in the Snow", and also went to watch movies at Paramount Cinema on Yuyuan Road, Shanghai, and was deeply impressed by " Water Lotus " and " The Wizard of Oz ". Now that his daughter has grown up and graduated from Peking University, when his father learned of her decision to go to Dunhuang to work, although he felt sorry for his daughter's frailty, he also respected her choice. Fan Jinshi remembered that when she left, her father said: "Since it is your choice, then do it well."

html In July 1963, 25-year-old Fan Jinshi set out to report to the Dunhuang Institute of Cultural Relics, the unit where she was assigned. She knew that this time when she went to work officially, she would not be able to leave in a short time like she did when she went for an internship before. The train travels along the Hexi Corridor, passing through Wuwei, Zhangye, and Jiuquan. Oasis can occasionally be seen in the distance in the vast Gobi desert. The closer you get to Dunhuang, the more desolate and lonely you feel. After a long journey of three days and three nights, the train arrived at Liuyuan. There was no railway station in Dunhuang at that time, and the closest station to Dunhuang was Liuyuan Railway Station. At the beginning of the movie "I Love Dunhuang", there is a scene targeting Liuyuan Railway Station. From the poetic and picturesque Weiming Lake to the desolate and lonely depths of the desert, Fan Jinshi did not expect that this time he would not turn back, and his work in Dunhuang has continued to this day, for more than half a century.

The name of the Dunhuang Academy, inscribed by Zhao Puchu, is carved on a huge stone at the entrance of the Dunhuang Academy. It is simple, clear and elegant. I learned on the official website that its predecessor was the National Dunhuang Art Research Institute established in 1944. It was renamed the Dunhuang Cultural Relics Research Institute in 1950 and expanded into the Dunhuang Academy in 1984. In 2017, the Dunhuang Academy formed a management and operation structure of “one academy, six locations”. As of June 2021, the total number of employees in the hospital is 1,507. The state attaches great importance to and strongly supports the protection and inheritance of Dunhuang culture. Group after group of intellectuals, with the intention of protecting and inheriting the national historical and cultural heritage, came to the desert, settled down here, and became the relay guardians of Dunhuang.

△Dunhuang Academy (Photographed by Zhang Jie on November 15, 2023)

Works at the Dunhuang Academy and is busy with work. Fan Jinshi has never forgotten Mr. Su Bingqi’s entrustment: “I was unable to submit the archaeological report on the Dunhuang Grottoes for a long time. After twists and turns, over and over again, it took me nearly half a century to complete the first volume. I could not imagine how important the Dunhuang Grottoes archaeological report is, and how arduous and mammoth the project is, and how few people have done it. It is an important historical task that I can persist in. I never imagined that one day the Dunhuang Academy would let me take a leadership and management position. After that, I devoted almost all of my limited life and energy to the protection, research, and promotion of the Dunhuang Grottoes. and management work. However, I will never forget the request from my alma mater and teachers, and I will never forget the mission of completing the archaeological report on the Mogao Grottoes."

On May 4, 2023, the 125th anniversary of Peking University, Fan Jinshi He returned to his alma mater and donated RMB 10 million to establish the Fan Jinshi Education Fund to support research on Dunhuang studies at Peking University. In her autobiography "My Heart Is in Dunhuang", Fan Jinshi emphasized that her persistence in Dunhuang is inseparable from her adhering to and continuing the spiritual tradition of Peking University. "I will never forget the spiritual tradition of Peking University. As a student of Peking University, I have the world in mind and serve the motherland." I can’t forget my ambition, and I can’t forget the great responsibility of protecting the Dunhuang Grottoes. I know that I must do my best for this... No matter what I do, whether it is research or teaching, I will integrate my life into it and the cause I do. Integrate into one. In everything you do, let your individual life continue to be reborn and sublimated, and you will also realize the meaning and value of life... An intellectual must maintain his rationality at all times With conscience, we must not follow the trend. If the east wind blows today, we will follow the east wind. If the west wind blows tomorrow, we will be blown away by the west wind. Those of us who come to Dunhuang from all directions are all here for the protection of cultural relics in the Mogao Grottoes. Our last The important thing is to play your role well, do this thing well, and do our business well."

Filmmaking began with a professional archaeological report

Miao Yue is a national first-level director of Sichuan Emei Film Group, engaged in He has been creating films and television for more than thirty years. In the past ten years, her film works have focused on the times and the fate of women. Among them, the films "Chrysanthemum in the Sky", " Shibadong Village " and "Beautiful Life" all won the "Five One Project" Award from the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The film and individuals have won the China Film Huabiao Award.

Filming "I Love Dunhuang" and meeting Fan Jinshi were a special and unforgettable experience in Miao Yue's decades-long career as a film director. Miao Yue recalled in an interview with a cover news reporter that it was the autumn of 2018. Miao Yue read an article about Fan Jin's poems and was deeply moved. She had a strong creative impulse to "make a movie."

△Miao Yue (middle), Chen Jin (left) and Fan Jinshi together (picture provided by Miao Yue)

But making a movie is a big project, and you can’t just shoot it if you want to. It requires a variety of conditions. When this idea came up, what she didn't expect was that the opportunity really came. "More than a month later, Pan Hongyang, a producer from Gansu Fengxing Film and Television Company, contacted me and said that he wanted to invite me to co-produce a film. I asked if it was What subject matter? The other party said, filming Fan Jinshi. I was very happy when I heard it: it was such a coincidence. So the cooperation was immediately reached. Later, E Film Group became the main investor and became the first producer of the film."

We hit it off immediately. After that, everything started quickly. In 2019, Miao Yue began to prepare for the shooting, especially interviews with various relevant figures. Before interviewing Fan Jinshi, Miao Yue and producer Pan Hongyang went to the Lanzhou Branch of the Dunhuang Academy and the Dunhuang Academy together to interview several people who came to Dunhuang earlier than Fan and who came to study Dunhuang in the 1940s and 1950s. An old gentleman, he collected very valuable creative materials. After interviewing nearly a hundred veterans and newcomers from the Dunhuang Academy, in July 2019, Miao Yue, actor Chen Jin and other creative teams finally met Fan Jinshi.

Miao Yue clearly remembered the scene when she first met Mr. Fan. “I was very excited before meeting Mr. Fan.What I expected was that Mr. Fan would talk a lot in front of the camera. It was great to finally have the opportunity to hear her tell her life story directly and specifically. " But when she saw Mr. Fan, Miao Yue "was confused. Things were not at all what I expected. Mrs. Fan is low-key, and the modest virtues of the older generation of intellectuals are clearly demonstrated in her. She especially doesn't want to reveal much about herself and doesn't like to talk about herself. So from the interview to the subsequent filming, Mr. Fan was always very serious with us. She hoped that our film could promote the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, but did not want our film to portray her. "

△Screenshot from the e-book "My Heart Is in Dunhuang: Fan Jinshi's Autobiography"

Fan Jinshi was not happy about making a movie with herself as the protagonist at first, "She has always emphasized that the cause of the Dunhuang Academy is from generation to generation. What the predecessors who protected Dunhuang inherited is a common cause for everyone, and she is just a part of it. Don't focus on her alone. "Miao Yue kept explaining to Fan Jinshi that feature films must have characters and stories, so "I Love Dunhuang" must use her life story as the main line to present the story of generations of archaeologists and Dunhuang." Focusing on the purpose of protecting and promoting Dunhuang cultural relics, Fan agreed to take the photo and emphasized many times not to exaggerate herself. "

△Miao Yue (middle) and Chen Jin (left) working on the filming of "I Love Dunhuang" (picture provided by Miao Yue)

Facing the group of film workers led by Miao Yue, Fan Jinshi first spoke for a long time A professional archaeological report. Recalling the scene at that time, Chen Jin can still clearly remember, “That was the first time in my life that I listened to such a professional archaeological report. Mr. Fan's narration was completely selfless and eloquent. In fact, we were all confused because the archaeological report was so professional. After telling the archaeological report, Fan Laocai began to tell stories about herself and Dunhuang, the Dunhuang Academy, and the Mogao Grottoes intermittently. She also talked about the protection of the Mogao Grottoes that she directly participated in when she was the third president of the Dunhuang Academy. Wait for the past. A group of film makers were shocked by the old man's state of life while listening to the old man's story again and again: his clear and agile thinking and meticulous and thoughtful memory were nothing like an old man over eighty years old! Although she looks thin, her whole body exudes an extremely powerful energy field. "

The story of Fan Jinshi and Dunhuang attracted many reporters to report on it, and many people proposed to write a biography for her, but she declined without hesitation. "I feel that I have nothing to write. "Later, some of her peers, colleagues, and friends also wanted her to write a memoir, and the publishing house also took the initiative to ask her to write an oral history. "So I had to seriously consider their suggestions. I think the reason why everyone has repeatedly suggested it is because I have experienced, participated and witnessed the great changes in the Mogao Grottoes and the rapid development of the Dunhuang Academy. I am eighty-one years old and have been working in Dunhuang for fifty-seven years. Based on what I have seen and heard in Dunhuang for nearly sixty years (reporter’s note: this preface was written in August 2019), I cannot contribute to the protection of the Mogao Grottoes and the development of the Dunhuang Academy. Shirking responsibility. "So the biographical work "The Place Where My Heart Is Returns is Dunhuang: A Narrative of Fan Jinshi" (published by Yilin Publishing House in October 2019).

△The book cover of "The Place Where My Heart Is Returns is Dunhuang: A Narrative of Fan Jinshi"

Fan Jinshi She also emphasized in the book that the reason why she trusted this writing was because Professor Gu Chunfang knew that she and Dunhuang "are inseparable." My life's work and most of my time have been in Dunhuang. If the person who wrote Fan Jinshi was separated from the protection, research and promotion of Mogao Grottoes, he would not be able to write a true and complete Fan Jinshi."

was "shaped by Fan Jinshi" " actor

On the afternoon of November 15, 2023, "My heart is in Dunhuang" - the Dunhuang premiere of "I Love Dunhuang" was held at the Mogao Grottoes Digital Exhibition Center. Near 4 o'clock, Fan Jinshi drove to the center At the door. She was wearing a black cotton top, black pants, a pair of casual shoes, and holding a cane in her hand. Her eyes through the glasses were very penetrating, and she was full of energy. When Mr. Fan appeared at the premiere At that moment, the scene burst into warm applause.

△The Dunhuang premiere of the movie "I Love Dunhuang" (picture provided by Miao Yue)

Ms. Fan took the stage to share her affirmation of the movie "I Love Dunhuang", "This movie is not easy to make. The time span is as long as 60 years. , and it is difficult to film both specific individuals and groups. It is not easy for you production staff. During the screening just now, the audience burst into applause many times, which shows that the effect is good. Thank you for your hard work."

Actor Chen Jin, who plays middle-aged and elderly Fan Jinshi in the film, also received high praise from Mr. Fan for her performance. Fan Jinshi's colleagues even said after watching the film that Chen Jin's performance was very consistent with the character of Dean Fan, and even his voice sounded very rational and intellectual. At the

movie premiere, Chen Jin admitted that she was "very stressed" at the beginning when she played Fan Jinshi. "After I met Mr. Fan, I felt that I couldn't play her. Her soul was too high. She looked up at the mountain and felt that she couldn't reach it."

On the afternoon of November 16, 2023, in the terminal building of Dunhuang Airport, a cover news reporter Interviewed Chen Jin who is about to return to Beijing. She sorted out her thoughts, "When Miao Yue invited me to play the role of Fan Jinshi, I readily agreed. I ran to Dunhuang with happy and delicate steps, feeling relaxed." However, when I really saw Mr. Fan , after feeling the strong aura of Mr. Fan, she fell into a state of "self-questioning", "The more I know about Mr. Fan, the more I feel that I cannot reach her great soul, and my heart is even full of fear."

side Miao Yue could understand Chen Jin's "timidity", "Actually, as a director, I felt the same way at the time. I felt that the subject of this shooting was too unusual. But I really couldn't bear to give up on this subject. Moreover, I have worked with Chen Jin for twenty years. Years ago, I have a full understanding of her serious attitude and performance ability. I firmly believe that with everyone working together, Chen Jin will definitely be able to complete the task of shaping Fan Lao. So I have been encouraging her. I think deep down in her heart, she definitely does not want to lose An opportunity to get closer to such a clear soul. Therefore, she finally agreed and interpreted and shaped this role perfectly."

△Fan Jinshi and Chen Jin (picture provided by Miao Yue)

With Miao Yue's encouragement , Chen Jin began to carefully consider the specific path of performance, "Actors generally use multiple methods and approaches to create a character. It is much more difficult to play an outstanding real character than to perform a virtual character. .For example, we usually start with the character’s external image and daily action habits. But when I met Mr. Fan, I found that I was much taller than Mr. Fan. This is a big visual difference. Since the appearance is not visually Like, then we have to work on the spiritual likeness. I started to study Fan Lao's spirit."

Just like this, Chen Jin's confidence gradually improved. Especially after the costumer and makeup artist tried on her makeup, she edited and compared photos of her look with Mr. Fan's photos, and paired them with music. After seeing this, Chen Jin began to build confidence and understand more about the character. In addition to having the opportunity to have close contact with Mr. Fan, Chen Jin said: "My energy and spirit seemed to have been invisibly improved by Mr. Fan when I accompanied him and held his hand to visit the Mogao Grottoes." "."

's successful performance of Fan Jinshi this time brought Chen Jin not only a performance work, but also a purification and improvement of his spiritual world. "If a person can do it with a pure and focused heart, When you engage in something you like to do, it is often easier to achieve achievements and gain recognition. Everyone knows this truth and all yearn for it. But how many of us can be as focused as Mr. Fan in his life. In daily life Among them, what we see most is that we are worried about gains and losses. This mountain looks at the height of that mountain. Unknowingly, in this state, we lose focus and purity. In fact, the same is true for our profession as actors. We can always There are only a few people who insist on not being influenced by others, who only work as actors because of love and can persist until the end." The process of

playing Mr. Fan is also the process of Chen Jin gradually getting into Mr. Fan's inner world."Why did she finally choose to stay in Dunhuang? In addition to her sincere love for cultural relics and archaeology, and her unshirkable sense of responsibility, did she ever have any thoughts of leaving in her heart?" These are all Chen Jin's explorations, "Teacher Fan is very frank. She once told me that she had never thought of leaving and reuniting with her family who were separated in two places. But due to various circumstances, she never did it. Moreover, Dunhuang at that time happened to lack professional archaeological talents like her and a strong sense of responsibility. , which made her not really want to leave. She also realized more and more firmly that her destiny is to take root in Dunhuang."

△Fan Jinshi and Chen Jin (right) (picture provided by Miao Yue)

The process of playing Fan Jinshi, It is also the process of approaching an outstanding soul. "Sometimes you will praise her, but the old man won't listen to your praise - don't do this again, it feels like 'Don't flatter me'. Moreover, she always corrects our cognition, saying where is I All the contributions are from the team, how can I be so great? I am so simple."

Chen Jin said that as an actor, in order to achieve real appeal, "facialization needs to be avoided. I try hard to play a character with unique characteristics. Fan Jinshi focuses on pure personality and at the same time is real and vivid. She is great and ordinary, outstanding and simple. In addition to being the guardian of Dunhuang culture, she is also a wife and a mother. She also has responsibilities for her family and stays with her lover. ."

From the initial fear that she "can't act" and "dare not act", to gradually finding the feeling during the actual filming process, Chen Jin gradually realized Fan Jinshi's inner world, and her demeanor became more and more like Fan Jinshi, "Not so much I am playing her, it is better to say that she is 'shaping' me. When I think of the moments I spent with Mr. Fan, I still feel that my heart is full of warmth and touch. She has gray hair and is thin and small. When she talks, Loud, powerful, and shining."

△ Fan Jinshi (2nd from right) at the Dunhuang premiere of the movie "I Love Dunhuang" (photographed by Zhang Jie on November 15, 2023)

Sichuan Love in Dunhuang

In 1998, the 60-year-old Fan Jinshi took over the heavy responsibility from Duan Wenjie and became the third director of the Dunhuang Academy. From a business position to a management position, there are so many things to worry about. At the age of 60, Fan Jinshi has ushered in the busiest years of her life. During her tenure as dean, many people wanted to turn the Mogao Grottoes into a "cash cow" through tourism development, and Fan Jinshi strongly opposed this. These are also shown in "I Love Dunhuang". With Fan Jinshi's promotion, the Standing Committee of the Gansu Provincial People's Congress approved the promulgation and implementation of the "Gansu Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Protection Regulations", and the "Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Protection Master Plan (2006-2025)" was also promulgated and implemented.

In order to preserve the thousand-year-old murals forever, Fan Jinshi led his team to create digital files for every cave, every mural, and every painted sculpture in the Mogao Grottoes, and used digital technology to make the Mogao Grottoes "alive". After more than ten years of hard work, "Digital Dunhuang" was officially launched in 2016, and digital display centers such as the tourist reception hall, digital cinema, and dome theater were also put into use.

Fan Jinshi has always maintained a low profile and modesty despite making such outstanding contributions to the protection and inheritance of Dunhuang cultural relics. Regarding the movie "I Love Dunhuang", which is based on her own Dunhuang story, she repeatedly emphasized to the film shooting and production team, including director Miao Yue, that they must not focus too much on her alone. Because the cause of the Dunhuang Academy is something passed down from generation to generation by the predecessors who have protected Dunhuang. It is a common cause of everyone, and she is just one of them, one of its representatives. "If there are no 'seniors,' there will be no 'younger ones,' and if there is no 'everyone,' there will be no 'individuals.' She was particularly fortunate that when she handed over the baton, the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes were not damaged." Miao Yue recalled in an interview with a cover news reporter.

△ Fan Jinshi at the Dunhuang Academy (picture provided by Miao Yue)

Since the 1940s, scholars from all over the country who are interested in the protection and research of Dunhuang cultural relics have rushed to Dunhuang and stationed here for decades to keep watch. The fire of life burns with devotion.For example, Chang Shuhong, the first director of the Dunhuang Art Research Institute, once led more than a dozen aspiring young people from big cities to the desolate northwest frontier to start the pioneering work of Dunhuang cultural relics. Many of them are scholars from Sichuan, including Duan Wenjie, the second director of the Dunhuang Academy, Sun Ruxun ([xiàn]), the first director of the Conservation Research Institute of the Dunhuang Academy, and deputy director of the Fine Arts Research Institute of the Dunhuang Academy. Director Li Qiqiong, Dunhuang's "living dictionary and living materials" Shi Weixiang, and Ouyang Lin who has devoted her life to copying murals, etc. Among them, Duan Wenjie, born in Mianyang, Sichuan in 1917, is one of the most famous experts in Dunhuang studies in my country. He has been stationed in Dunhuang for more than 60 years and has successively served as the director of the Dunhuang Cultural Relics Research Institute, the president of the Dunhuang Academy, and the honorary president of the Dunhuang Academy.

Fan Jinshi also mentioned the Dunhuang people's love for Sichuan many times in "My Heart Is Home in Dunhuang". In December 2016, Fan Jinshi also came to Chengdu and went to the Chengdu Museum to support the "Soul of the Silk Road - Dunhuang Art Exhibition and the Land of Abundance and Silk Road Cultural Relics Special Exhibition". During that trip, she also gave a wonderful "Exhibition Guide" lecture at the Chengdu Museum, explaining "Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Their Cultural Value" to more than 500 viewers. In this lecture, she mentioned that when the Dunhuang Art Institute was first established, many of the main staff were Sichuanese, "so we have a close relationship with Sichuan."

Regarding the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and Sichuan, This beautiful connection makes Miao Yue, the director of "I Love Dunhuang" feel very cordial. "During the Anti-Japanese War, many painters and scholars came to Mogao Grottoes from Chongqing. Now when this film is shot, Sichuan E Film Group is the first producer. , It’s really amazing."

Miao Yue was deeply moved by the low-key and humble virtues of the older generation of intellectuals. "I feel that I have really seen a noble soul." Speaking of this, Miao Yue A little emotional, "I sincerely feel that as a film and television worker, as a filmmaker, we have such a responsibility to convey positive energy to society. We should consciously use the form of film to convey the life story of such an ordinary but great woman to a broad audience. . This year happens to be the 60th anniversary of Fan Lao’s visit to the Mogao Grottoes, from a young girl to an octogenarian. I think it is very meaningful for us to make this movie. We are very honored to use the form of a movie to express her wonderful life experience. "