It has taken a quite long span of time for the tent-shaped pattern design as a decoration developed into a combining element to the construction of Buddhist temple-cave on the cliff and gradually to beone of the main architecture form of Buddhist temple-cave in cliff which had been successful fixed architecture form that had combining the tent-shaped design with a square building of the temple-cave-which are known as the shrine of a tent-shaping. This article is trying to testifying and surveying the tent-shaping decoration from its original source by using the typological method of archaeology and discussing the peculiar feature of the tent-shaping development in different process of the historic periods and combined with the careful study of the date of the construction of the temple-caves at same time.
