In the 1930s, he dazzled in Parisian art salons; yet, a Dunhuang grotto catalog ignited a lifelong devotion.
20世纪30年代，他在巴黎艺术沙龙熠熠生辉；然一本敦煌石窟图录，点燃了他毕生的虔诚。
From the romantic Seine to the desolate Dunhuang sands, Chang Shuhong’s journey is a poetic elegy to cultural heritage.
从浪漫的塞纳河到荒芜的敦煌沙海，常书鸿的旅程是一曲献给文化遗产的诗意挽歌。
He traded Parisian laurels for decades of wind and sand, stitching the fragmented murals with his devotion, so that the flying apsaras could keep dancing through the millennia.
他以巴黎桂冠换数十年风沙，用虔诚缝合破碎壁画，让飞天得以在千年岁月里继续翩跹。