The musical and dance images in Kucha grotto murals are not only important carriers of art but also visual archives of the mutual learning of civilizations along the Silk Road. Based on a review of relevant materials, this paper proposes a research approach that combines narrative structure and iconography of musical behavior: using sacred narrative, secular narrative, and spatio-temporal integration narrative as the structural framework, supplemented by iconographic interpretation of instrument combinations, playing postures, ritual functions, and cultural integration, and then forming an operational method system through strategies such as semantic field annotation and movement restoration. The paper emphasizes the use of visual evidence as the basis and functional inference as the tool to achieve mutual verification and mutual proof of image narrative and musical behavior at the level of the evidence chain.
Liu Peidong (Wed,) studied this question.