What is the content of the murals in the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang?

Dunhuang Mogao Caves mural content is Buddhist mural. Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is mainly based on the Buddhist scriptures to paint statues, sutra changes, story paintings and so on. In these Buddhist paintings, one can see a large number of images of landscapes in the background. Landscape is an important element in Chinese art, and when foreign Buddhist culture was introduced to China, Chinese elements were incorporated into it. Although the study of landscape patterns in mural paintings is only a very small part of the art of Dunhuang mural paintings, it has had an extremely important influence on the development of Chinese folk landscape painting. And, like the Dunhuang mural paintings from the Northern Wei Dynasty until the Yuan Dynasty more than 1,000 years of very rich landscape scenery, in the world is unique. This paper focuses on the study of landscape images, landscape images of various periods of investigation, in the Dunhuang grottoes excavated in three stages, respectively, to take one of the typical grottoes to each period of the characteristics of landscape images to be elaborated. First, Dunhuang murals of landscape ancient Chinese murals is an important part of the world of painting art, is an encyclopedia of ancient human society, but also a modern study of ancient history of historical writings. Dunhuang art is the art of propagating Buddhist ideology. Both murals and statues are created in accordance with Buddhist classics through the brushstrokes of painters, wood and stone. In these Buddhist paintings, one can also see a large number of landscapes that appear as background paintings. Although Buddhism is a foreign religion, it was strongly influenced by traditional Chinese thought and culture after its introduction to China. Source: Peony