Under the direction of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China, China-CEEC Libraries Union was established in October 2018 in Hangzhou, China, with its secretariat permanently set in Hangzhou Public Library. 64 libraries from China and CEEC, on a voluntary basis, seek common progress made on the principle of "equality, mutual benefit, inclusiveness and openness".

The Very Collection in My Library aims to introduce treasures kept in each member library to audience in China and Central and Eastern European countries and bring ancient books into the limelight, through of which people could enhance their understanding of cultures and histories of other countries.

This episode here is presented by Mr. Xiao Xuezhi, the director of Gansu Provincial Library, introducing you the rare ancient book Landscape painting-Visiting Mogao Caves The Ancient Monument.

On a scroll of 533 cm L x 32 cm W, the landscape painting-Visiting Mogao Caves The Ancient Monument depicts the exterior scenery of Mogao Caves at that time.

Amid the undulating dunes and embedded in a cliff, Mogao, the scarlet building, stands still and upright. The 9-floor structure is strewn with caves big and small. At the foot of the cliff, a grove of luxuriant trees grow along a babbling brook, blurring the cottages within and witnessing a travelers come and go. The painting is imbued with a profound artistic conception by virtue of forceful and elegant strokes, in which way a unique style is represented.

The piece of work was inscribed with poems by a lineup of top literati, calligraphers and artists, including Zhang Daqian, Yu Youren, Gao Yihan, Feng Guorui, Cao Jingyuan, Zhang Weihan, Gu Jiegang, Han Dingshan, Wang Xuan, etc. Most of the poems were composed when Mr. Yu was investigating Northwest China in 1941, as a result of their sentiments towards the Dunhuang Library Cave's miserable situation. The colophons start with the calligraphic characters and two poems written by Mr. Zhang Daqian ( a famous artist in the era Republic of China), eulogizing Mogao's exquisite cultural antiques and abundant treasures. Gao Yihan's Ode to Dunhuang Stone Chambers tells us Mogao's vicissitudes. Yu Youren's colophon Yellow Bell, Reunion and Full Moon reads:

Busy for fame heavenwards afar, not until my hair turned gray did I arrive at Dunhuang. Sandy soil are embroidered with ridges and ditches here and there, I cannot but linger on and on. It breaks my heart to depict Mogao for its cultural relics' decline and fall. The setting sun behind the Sunny Pass and the rising moon over the Gurgling Dune would know how sad and drear I feel. Yu's poem is brimming with the expectation that the long and and continuous Dunhuang art shall be passed on from generation to generation.