The Exhibition of Replication and Revival of Ancient Chinese Murals, organized by the Chinese National Academy of Arts, highlighted the systematic interpretation of ancient Chinese murals, bringing the history of images, materials and transmission into a single field of study.

At the center of the exhibition is the academy's project to research and copy the "Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi Fo)" in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Focusing on the method of "research-based copying" and combining image reconstruction, cross-checking against documentary sources, historical verification and iconographic interpretation, the project has produced a complete approach to copying and studying murals.

Viewed more broadly, ancient Chinese murals are not isolated pictorial remains but historical sites continually formed through interaction among diverse traditions. The exhibition gathers copies of murals from successive dynasties made along the ancient Silk Road routes in China. It is at once a comprehensive review of the academy's project on copying and promoting murals along the ancient Silk Road and a concrete presentation of images, techniques and cultural exchange.

The transmission of murals through copying is not merely technical training but a key link between heritage conservation, academic production, art education and public communication. Copying preserves images and also activates knowledge; it restores form and also rebuilds spatial experience and social memory. Mural research can thus move beyond the image itself into a deeper understanding of structure and civilization.

The exhibition is not only a presentation of results achieved so far but an academic statement oriented towards the future. It reactivates ancient artistic resources through contemporary research methods, responds to the difficult questions raised by the dispersal and interpretation of Chinese cultural relics, and, through the reinterpretation and re-dissemination of images, carries outstanding Chinese cultural heritage forward into the present.