diff --git a/fastNLP/core/dataset.py b/fastNLP/core/dataset.py
index dea27174..4925ac36 100644
--- a/fastNLP/core/dataset.py
+++ b/fastNLP/core/dataset.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import _pickle as pickle
 import numpy as np
 
 from fastNLP.core.fieldarray import FieldArray
@@ -317,3 +318,12 @@ class DataSet(object):
                 for header, content in zip(headers, contents):
                     _dict[header].append(content)
         return cls(_dict)
+
+    def save(self, path):
+        with open(path, 'wb') as f:
+            pickle.dump(self, f)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def load(self, path):
+        with open(path, 'rb') as f:
+            return pickle.load(f)