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.
