The Qiuzi Art of Mural Painting Kuqa, formerly Known as Qiuzi, was an important town on the north route of the Silk Road in ancient times and one of the Western Region' s Buddhist centers in the Han and Tang Dynasties. The place is noted for the Buddhist cave temples which, built over a thousand years ago, contain a wealth of works of art. Of all the wealth of art preserved here in the caves, the most precious are the frescoes which, distinguishing themselves by their unique artistic characteristics, have attracted tourists and experts from all corners of the world. The Qiuzi Buddhist caves, concentrated in Kezil (now part of Baicheng County) and Kumutula, are all under the protection of law. The Qiuzi grottoes, the construction of which began in the late years of the Eastern Han Dynasty and continued in the 3th Dynasty, the Epoch of Division between the North and the South, Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, are considered the earliest and the most concentrated of all their kind in China. They are known the world over for their colorful and beautiful mural paintings.
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