With the brush as the main painting tool, mineral pigments in scarlet, green, yellow, orange and purple tones are used, so the color of murals lasts for a long time and is usually bright when found. Modelling technique inherited the tradition of realism and exaggeration since the late Spring and Autumn Period, and developed the technique of drawing ink lines in palace murals and silk paintings from the Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty. In the early days, the technology was relatively simple. By the late Eastern Han Dynasty, freehand brushwork, boneless and line drawing appeared, and some pictures, such as the subordinate figures of Wang Du 1, were also rendered. In composition, it got rid of the rigid horizontal arrangement of patterns since the late Spring and Autumn Period and paid attention to the relationship between proportion and perspective. These achievements laid the foundation for the maturity of China's painting.

Tomb mural in Han Dynasty is a kind of decorative mural, which rose in the early years of Western Han Dynasty and was popular in Eastern Han Dynasty. Most of the tomb owners are senior officials or local strongmen. Murals in Han tombs are of great significance for understanding the development of social economy, culture, aesthetic thought and painting in Han Dynasty.