在壁画设计国际化的时代下,壁画的民族性和时代精神是壁画得以存在和发展的根基。在强调创新的同时绝对不能忽视传承的重要性。敦煌壁画是我国壁画的精髓,其中包含大量的佛教故事画,所用的叙事图式为更有效的表现精神内容,吸收了西域壁画、汉代壁画及本土传统绘画等艺术之长,逐渐形成灵活多样内蕴丰富的个性化图示。大量的实例证明:当代壁画设计中对敦煌壁画叙事图式存在着传承关系。然而这种传承不仅仅是原始的照搬,而是带有时代特征的发展,是在传统图式的基础上,结合时代的审美倾向及当代壁画创作的物理环境等因素所进行的发展。一、敦煌壁画中的叙事图式在中国传统壁画中的代表性 Under the internationalized era of mural design, the national character and the spirit of the times are the foundation for the existence and development of murals. While emphasizing innovation, we must not ignore the importance of inheritance. Dunhuang murals are the essence of murals in our country. They contain a large number of Buddhist story paintings. The narrative patterns used are more effective expression of spiritual content. They absorb the art of Western Wall murals, Han Dynasty murals and local traditional paintings, gradually forming a flexible and diverse Rich personalized illustration. A large number of examples prove that the contemporary fresco design inherits the narrative pattern of Dunhuang murals. However, this kind of inheritance is not only the original copy, but the development with the characteristics of the times. It is based on the traditional schemata, combined with the aesthetic tendencies of the times and the physical environment of the contemporary mural creation. First, the representative of the narrative patterns in Dunhuang murals in traditional Chinese murals