In Dunhuang murals, the most striking image, besides the flying sky, is undoubtedly the diverse music and dance. Buddhism places the image of music and dance in an important position in various sutras, as a symbol of praising the Buddha and the solemn Pure Land. It is also the worshippers who, according to their own ideals and needs, make vows to entertain Buddha with their favorite music, dance, string songs, and various plays in their daily lives when painting murals. The precious images of these cultural and entertainment activities have never ceased in the murals from the Northern Liang Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty for a thousand years. The artistic imagination of musicians, dancers, and painters from various eras, the harmonious melodies of sheng, guan, qian, drum, silk strings, clappers, and the rhythmic movements of spinning and dancing, are fully reflected in the brushstrokes of painters, leaving us with valuable materials for music and dance aesthetics. Mogao Grottoes Cave 85, Late Tang Changjin Dance Mogao Grottoes Cave 369, Middle Tang Changjin Dance Mogao Grottoes Cave 148, Prosperous Tang Changjin Dance Mogao Grottoes Cave 144, Prosperous Tang Changjin Dance Mogao Grottoes Cave 156, Late Tang Changjin Dance Mogao Grottoes Cave 12, Late Tang Changjin Dance Mogao Grottoes Cave 148, Late Tang Double Changjin Dance Mogao Grottoes Cave 138, Late Tang Changjin Dance Mogao Grottoes Cave 231, Late Tang Rebound Pipa Opera Lotte Mogao Grottoes Cave 159, Tang Opera Lotte Fan Xingru, male, born in Fanjiawan Village, Shangqin Town, Zhangye, Gansu in August 1941, graduated from West Street Primary School in Zhangye in July 1955, and in July 1958. Graduated from Zhangye Middle School and later enrolled in the preparatory program of the Fine Arts Department at Lanzhou University of the Arts; Later, due to the merger of colleges and universities, he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Northwest Normal University (now Northwest Normal University) in August 1964, majoring in traditional Chinese painting, and studied under Chang Shuhong, the founder of the Dunhuang Research Institute and the first person to protect the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang. He has served as a high school teacher in a large state-owned enterprise, a member of the Communist Youth League, a member of the staff club's art department, the director of the trade union office, vice chairman of the trade union, deputy director of the party committee's propaganda department, and deputy director of the Gansu mining area cultural bureau. In September 1992, the first "Fan Xingru Copying Dunhuang Flying Art Exhibition" was held in Dunhuang; Subsequently, at the invitation of the Organizing Committee of the Fourth China Art Festival, the China Youth Federation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other units, the "Fan Xingru Copying Dunhuang Flying Art Exhibition" was held multiple times in Lanzhou, Beijing, Shenzhen and other places. His works have also been exhibited in Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and other places, and 17 Dunhuang Flying Art exhibitions have been held in large factories, mines, enterprises, and universities. In April 2000, the Dunhuang Flying Apsaras Art Exhibition was held at the National Art Museum of China, and Dunhuang art ascended to the highest art hall in China for the first time. He spent 5 years in June 2017 to complete the creation of the long volume "Flying Apsaras Chasing Dreams", and has written "Dunhuang Flying Apsaras", "Dunhuang Bodhisattva", "Dunhuang Flying Apsaras" (revised edition), "Dunhuang Flying Apsaras" (white drawn version), "Baoxiang Tianpu" and so on. Among them, "Dunhuang Flying Apsaras" won the Special Excellence Award at the 3rd Gansu Provincial Book Award, and "Baoxiang Tianpu" won the "Golden Bull Cup" award at the 29th National Book Awards. He was awarded the title of the Most Beautiful Person of the Year in Gansu Province in 2021, and is currently a member of the China Artists Association and a visiting professor at the School of Fine Arts, Northwest Normal University. (New Society)