莫高轶事——我的敦煌生涯(4)

Mogao Stories——My Life Career at Dunhuang(Ⅳ)

这一篇短文是继续我的上一篇《莫高轶事——我的敦煌生涯(3)》的回忆。1949年9月,临近国民党政权土崩瓦解前,以常书鸿先生为首的一小群中青年业务和行政人员生活窘迫,一直到解放军进军河西,和平解放敦煌。解放军亲临莫高窟,我亲眼所见解放军纪律严明,可又生动活泼,由衷地感到欢欣鼓舞。当时我们依然贫困,但地方党政领导对我们的关怀、照顾使我们感到温暖,同时也令我们感到困惑,为什么只是照顾,不提接管呢?这期间还经历了敦煌南山残余反动势力的作乱对我们的威胁以及我们的应变。直到1950年8月西北军政委员会文化部代表中央文化部到敦煌艺术研究所办理接管,并更名为敦煌文物研究所,从此翻开了敦煌事业新的一页。

This short essay follows the records of the Mogao Stories -My Life Career at Dunhuang （III） Before the Kuomintang regime was on the verge of collapse, a small group of young and middle-aged researchers and administrators had been living in absolute misery until the People＇ s Liberation Army entered the Hexi Regions and peacefully liberated Dunhuang. I was happy to see them at the Mogao Grottoes, highly disciplined but lively. At that time, we still lived in poverty, but we felt very warm because of the concern and care from local party and government leaders. However, I also felt puzzled： Why did they just take care of us, rather than taking over the place？ During this period, I also felt how the rebellions of the reactionary forces of Nanshan at Dunhuang, and how we responded. It was in August 1950 when the Cultural Department of the Northwest Military and Political Commission took over the National Research Institute on Dunhuang Art on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, renaming it the Research Institute on Dunhuang Cultural Relics, thus starting a new chapter in the Dunhuang cause.