飞天 [Flying Apsaras]

• 龟兹:

  Qiuci, also known as Kucha (an important Tocharian town on the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in the Han-Tang period).

• 凿壁不偷光:

  Reference to idiom "凿壁偷光" (lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light), fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship.

• 汉墨:

  Han Dynasty calligraphic style.

• 飞天:

  Flying Apsara is a type of female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist culture.

• 阳关:

  Yangguan or Southern Pass on the south Silk Road in Gansu, 70 km south of Dunhuang.

• 楼兰:

  Loulan is an ancient oasis town of Kroraina on the Silk road near Lop Nor (罗布泊), modern Xinjiang.

• 祁连:

  Qilian mountains.

• 狼居胥:

  Langjuxu Mountain.

• 琵琶:

  Pipa, a plucked string instrument with a fretted fingerboard; 4-stringed Chinese lute.

• 鲁班:

  Lu Ban, legendary master craftsman, perhaps contemporary with Confucius, honored as God of Carpentry.

• 木鹤:

  The wooden crane invented by Lu Ban. A prototype of a modern kite.

• 万户:

  Wan Hu is a legendary Chinese official who was described in 20th century sources as the world's first "astronaut" by having been lifted by rockets into outer space.

• 夸父:

  Kua Fu, a legendary giant who chased the sun to plead with it never to set. But never catching up with the sun, he died of thirst and turned into a huge mountain.

• 嫦娥:

  Chang’e, Chinese mythical goddess of the moon.

• 山海经:

  The Classic of Mountains and Seas is a Chinese classic text and a compilation of mythic geography and beasts.

• 敦煌:

  Dunhuang is an oasis and county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu Province, which in ancient times served as the gateway to China on the Great Silk Road.

• 蜚短 流长:

  To spread malicious gossip, also written as 飞短流长.

• 落定尘埃:

  Reference to idiom "尘埃落定" (lit. the dust has settled; fig. to get sorted out).

• 逐日:

  A reference to the legend of Kua Fu (fig. try to do something impossible).

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