"Many cities display culture on walls. Dunhuang also uses floor tiles and cultural and creative products to tell its history, which is impressive," Zamyatina said. She found the approach inspiring and hoped other cities would learn from Dunhuang's experience, and that more creative Dunhuang products would appear in the future.

　　For centuries, Dunhuang witnessed encounters and exchanges among different civilizations along the Silk Road. Today, cultural and creative products that foreign visitors pack into their bags will carry Dunhuang's cultural memory across mountains and seas to a wider world.