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Throughout history, the Silk Road has long been a thoroughfare for cultural exchanges among all parties along the road. Here, in addition to the frontier poems and Buddhist grottoes that people are familiar with, the tomb murals also present a string of bright pearls. From the perspective of cultural exchange trends, with the help of the political and military influence of the great Eastern empires and the high degree of civilization established through a long history, local culture has a clear dominance in the cultural exchanges along the Silk Road. This is reflected in the tomb murals. On the one hand, the art form of tombs in the Central Plains has spread for a long time, and nearly half of the remains of Chinese mural tombs are on the Silk Road; on the other hand, tomb murals have always maintained an independent system of rebirth beliefs while accepting the influence of Buddhism and Taoism. Therefore, they still maintained the independence of local images after the Han Dynasty.