Rock painting is a kind of stone carving culture. The human ancestors used stone tools as tools to describe and record their production methods and life contents in a rough, simple and natural way.

China is a rock art country with a wide distribution of rock paintings. Thousands of ancient rock paintings have been discovered in the eastern foothills of Helan, Ningxia, in the northwest of China. The rock is full of strange and simple rock paintings with characters, animals, celestial bodies, plants, unknown symbols and Xixia text.

Among the tens of thousands of rock paintings in Helan mountain, the head portrait of human is the most characteristic, and with the number of nearly one thousand, it has become the most concentrated and rich area of figure portrait in the world.

According to the rock paintings and the Xixia engraving analysis, the Helanshan rock paintings were successively carved in different periods. They were first produced in the early and middle of the Neolithic Age, recording the ancient ancestors grazing, hunting, worshipping, fighting, and entertaining between 3,000 and 10,000 years ago. Life scenes such as exchanges, totem beliefs, social customs, etc.

Source：http://www.chinanews.com/cul/2019/08-22/8934919.shtml

Time: 2019.08.22