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Symphony in stone: Echoes of the Kizil Cave

CGTN

05:42

On the walls of the Kizil Cave, China's earliest Buddhist grotto, a silent orchestra unfolds. Painted musicians with instruments from distant lands perform across centuries, a testament to Xinjiang's role as a hub of civilization exchanges along the Silk Road. Yet alongside these harmonies lie chisel marks—reminders of what was lost. What stories linger here, suspended between past and present? 

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