在举世闻名的敦煌莫高窟以东约一百多公里的地方,沿祁连山脉北麓,有一条小河自南向北流下,千百年来,祁连山雪水融化而成的滔滔急流,从戈壁滩中冲出了一条深深的河谷,这便是榆林河(也叫踏实河)。从唐代开始,佛教的信仰者们也仿照莫高窟在这里开凿石窟,塑造佛像,绘制壁画,直到元代,历800年间,已形成 Around a hundred kilometers east of the world famous Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, along the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains, there is a stream flowing down from south to north. For thousands of years, the surging rapids from melting Qilianshan snow melt from the Gobi The beach washed out a deep valley, which is the Yulin River (also known as practical River). From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Buddhists also mimicked the Mogao Grottoes here, shaping statues and painting frescoes until the Yuan Dynasty, which formed 800 years ago