黑水死城(下)

The History of Dead Black Water City(Ⅱ)

西夏的艺术成就与佛教在西夏国的盛行有着密切关系。黑水城出土的大量佛教画像塑像具有很高的艺术水准。西夏人的星相崇拜又反映了他们对天体的认识。明朝初年,黑水城历经战乱,生态环境日益恶化,水源枯竭,逐渐被人们废弃,成为一座神秘的死城。

The achievement of Xixia Art is closely relevant to the popularity of Buddhism in Xixia. A great amount of buddhistic pictures and portrags excavated from black water city have enjoyed high artistic value. Xixia people’s constellation worship reflected their realization. for the celestrial body. During the early years, in the Ming Dynasty, the black water city was gradually abandoned by people, due to its growing worsened ecotope and dried up waters resulting from many year’s conflicts and wars, thus becoming a mysterious dead city.