Mogao Cave murals reflecting Buddhist culture can be divided into what kinds of murals?

Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes murals, the most reflective of Buddhist culture in the mural paintings, can be divided into six categories: story paintings, sutra changes in the painting, venerable statue paintings, feeder paintings, decorative motifs and mythological subject paintings.

Story paintings, that is, the use of popular, graphic images, the abstract, esoteric history of the Buddhist classics to show.

The Sutra Variation Paintings, that is, the use of popular and easy to understand pictures to express the esoteric content of the Buddhist classics. Sutra change painting is also known as "change" or "change of phase", broadly speaking, all the drawings and paintings based on Buddhist scriptures, can be called "change".

Honored image painting, that is, in the image of Shakyamuni fictionalized picture of the Buddha, there are three Buddhas, seven Buddhas, thousands of Buddhas, ten Buddhas and so on.

Provider paintings, that is, Buddhism and funded the construction of the grottoes of the portrait of the people, you can paint the family, relatives, slave girls. Mogao Grottoes were built by both monks, local organizations, and private monks and laymen.

Decorative pattern painting, mainly used for grotto building decoration, decorative patterns colorful, ever-changing, mainly side decorations, top light, backlight, niche frieze, the human character Phi, Pingqi, algal wells, rosettes, flags, flower tiles, artifacts, clothing and other patterns.

Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes mural paintings of mythological themes, that is, the traditional national myths as the theme of the painting.