The invention discloses a Chinese herbal medicine extract, and is characterized in that, the Chinese herbal medicine extract is an extract of water containing 10-50 parts by weight of snow lotus, 10-50 parts by weight of cistanche, and 20-60 parts by weight of astragalus mongholicus and/or solvent, wherein the solvent is selected from methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, n-butyl alcohol, ethylene glycol, 1,2-propylene glycol, 1,3-propylene glycol, 1,3-butylene glycol, acetone, ethyl acetate or the combinations thereof. The extract and the Chinese herbal medicine composition containing the extract can be directly used for preventing skin ageing, especially photo-ageing, and can also be added in cosmetic as a functional additive. The Chinese herbal medicine extract and the Chinese herbal medicine composition disclosed by the invention have an anti-ageing function, especially an anti-photo-ageing function, help skin to be antioxidant and promote the proliferation of dermal fibroblast, especially help skin to resist the ultraviolet irradiation of UVB (ultraviolet B) and UVA (ultraviolet A), and have the advantages of protecting skin, reducing injury and preventing skin from photo-ageing, and having no irritation on skin.