Ancient Rock Paintings in Bozhou
3 min readThere are a lot of ancient rock paintings in Qiongkusitai and Kalasiba about 50km northeast away from today’s Wenquan County. Most rock paintings are carved on giant stones in mountains with lush vegetation, abundant water and beautiful natural environment, and the content mainly reflects the pastoral life at that time for instance one stone carved with 17big-head sheep and goats in different shapes, which can reflect the grassland and the herding scene at that time and the hunting scene of hunters is recorded on another stone.
A visitor is watching Argal paintings on the grassland in the west of Wenquan County of Xinjiang The Wusulubiezhen rock painting site is located on a relatively small independent mountain in the north of the biezhentao mountain about 50km west away from today’s Wenquan County. The rock paintings here are characterized by rich content and concentrated distribution the content reflected by rock paintings includes hunting figures, herding figures, domesticating figures, the figures about wild beast grabbing sheep, and the figures about animal groups .
Walking along the road about 45km on the north coast of the bortala river from Wenquan County and then turning north to go up the slope about 2km, you can reach the Adongquelu rock painting site. the Adongquelu rock paintings are densely distributed at the bottom of a north-south natural gully and on two sides of a gentle slope, and the exposed range is about 6km. Most rock paintings are carved on sunny sides under rocks and on top black rocks The size of the paintings is determined according to the area of the rock size and the animal images are different with the reflected content including the hunting figures and the figures about the animal groups and so on Daolite rock paintings are located about 20 km north away from today Wenquan County. The rock paintings are carved in naturally impacted gullies and on the giant stones with the reflected content including the hunting figures, transition figures and the animal figures and so on Yikefusita rock paintings are located about 10km away from today ‘s Wenquan County. The rock paintings here are discretely distributed, and the content also includes stone marks and stone footprints and others besides the hunting figures.
Kuoyitasi rock paintings are distributed on two sides of the mountain roadsin the south of the Alatao mountain about 30km away from today,’s Bole CitySome rock paintings are carved in caves some are carved on the giant stones and some are carved on cliffs. The reflected content of the rock paintings includes worship figures, the hunting figures and the animal figures and so on The rock paintings are a vivid reflection of each nationality in ancient and some also uses exaggeration for expression. the sculpture of these roc Bortala. Most rock paintings in Bortala use a realistic approach for descripti paintings starts from the Spring-and-Autumn and Warring-States period and ended in modern times. the rock paintings are not only the cultural relics of the nomadic people in Bortala, but also China’s precious cultural heritage.
