Frescoes belong to which of the categories of historical materials

Mural paintings belong to the Buddhist type of historical materials.

The mural paintings in the Dunhuang caves cover Buddhist classics and Buddhist chronicles, as well as many local characters, which pioneered this form of painting and made storytelling relevant to the history of Chinese art.

Dunhuang mural paintings depict images of gods, their activities, their relationships with gods, and their relationships with people in order to send people's good wishes and appease their hearts.

Dunhuang murals, including the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, West Thousand Buddha Caves, Anxi Yulin Grottoes *** there are 552 grottoes, there are more than 50,000 square meters of mural paintings of successive generations, is the country and even the world's largest group of grottoes mural paintings, the contents of which are very rich.

Dunhuang mural painting is the main component of Dunhuang art, huge scale, skillful. Dunhuang murals are rich and colorful, it is the same as other religious art, is the depiction of the image of God, God's activities, God and God's relationship, God's relationship with people in order to send people's good wishes, soothe people's souls of art. Therefore, the style of frescoes has different characteristics from secular paintings. However, any art originates from real life, and any art has its national tradition. Thus, their forms are mostly out of the *** same artistic language and techniques of expression, with the *** same national style. Dunhuang murals are also known as the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas. It is also one of the four major ancient caves in China, which is listed as a world cultural heritage.