The invention relates to a scene display method for a mobile terminal, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: displaying a scene at the same time of downloading the scene, and correspondingly updating scene display along with increment of downloaded content. A scene display device for the mobile terminal is characterized by comprising a judgment unit, a state storage unit and adisplay unit connected sequentially, wherein the judgment unit is used for judging a state of a scene element and informing the state storage unit of the state of the scene element to save or update the state; the state storage unit is used for saving the state of the scene element; and the display unit is used for displaying the scene element according to the state of the scene element saved in the state storage unit. The method and the device shorten time of a user for waiting the scene display, and can provide better scene display experience quality for the user.