Dunhuang fresco is part of the composition of the cave art of Dunhuang. The cave art of Dunhuang is large and deep. Represented by the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang cave art is rich and colorful, and available in large quantities, including murals, painted sculptures, books, scrolls, and many other art forms. Among the art forms, the remains of murals in the Mogao Grottoes are the most beautiful. In the Tang Dynasty, Mogao Grottoes had more than a thousand caves Stone praised. So far, 492 caves, left, with 45,000 square meters of frescoes in them.

The scenes of life in society and the emergence of different people in different dynasties of Tang Dynasty, the Dunhuang frescoes is precious materials for research on the clothes and customs of people of all ethnic groups of different dynasties. The tables can be divided into tables statue of Buddha, the Buddhist Sutras are painting, narrative painting, maintenance painting, paintings of animals, landscapes, paintings and decorative joint so on. The statue of Buddha paintings include portraits of various Buddhas and bodhisattvas, and Buddhist sutra paintings that have become Sutra Painting , the color used to cover the content of expressions Buddhist Sutras. The narrative paintings, but many traces of the substance, the living quarters and the amount of life, when combined with great appeal. Food tables are portraits of people who believe in Buddhism and donations for the construction of caves and their families and employees. The natural landscape in some beautiful scenery is painted landscapes in the Sutra, and some other self-images, the landscape is, what is the most important parts. It is decorated with colorful pictures used to decorate the cave building.

Frescoes of Dunhuang has many forms and varied content and features life-time. They reflect the craftsmen at the time of the advanced skills of painting and had the power of imagination. They offer a wide variety of materials to study the lens of the history of Chinese art.