"Driving a long car to break through the gates of Helan Mountain, eating Hulu meat with aspirations, laughing and talking about drinking the blood of the Huns", maybe we have been familiar with Helan Mountain for a long time because of Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong".
In ancient times, Helan Mountain was the place where Huns, Xianbei, Turks, Uighurs, Tubo, Dangxiang and other northern minorities lived, hunted, lived and multiplied. They chiseled production and life scenes, totem beliefs, social customs, etc. on the rocks of Helan Mountain. To express the yearning and pursuit of a better life, after a long period of time, it has formed the mysterious "Helan Mountain Rock Paintings" that we today refer to as mysterious.
The Yinchuan World Rock Art Museum was completed and put into use in November 2008. It is one of the internal departments of the Helan Mountain Rock Art Management Office in Yinchuan City. It is currently the only petroglyph museum in China and the largest in the world, with a building area of 4,106 square meters. The tour exhibition area is composed of "eight halls and two centers". Yinchuan Rock Art Research and Exchange Center, Chen Zhaofu Rock Art Information Center; the office and living area consists of offices, conference rooms, cultural relics warehouses, and cultural relics restoration rooms.
In the museum, there are a total of 546 pieces (pieces) of high-quality petroglyph photos, rubbings, real objects and original works of art produced at the same time as petroglyphs from more than 30 countries and regions in the world. It systematically introduces the world's petroglyph heritage masterpieces, covering the dynamic results of petroglyph protection, development, and research in recent years.
petroglyphs of the world
The first thing that catches our eyes in the world petroglyphs exhibition hall is a world map. We can learn that there are 700,000 petroglyphs in 150 regions in 70 countries on all continents, with a total of 20 million pieces. In our Asia, there are 3 most famous petroglyphs. You can see the rock paintings of Huashan in Guangxi, Malipo in Yunnan and the rock paintings of Helan Mountain, where we are now. When we turned around, we saw the rock paintings of Asia, the first of the 7 continents. Asia has a vast territory and a complex climate, so it has produced a huge and complex cultural system. Among them, ancient civilizations are expressed in the form of rock paintings. The next thing we saw was a rock painting picture of the Hangaishan rock painting site in the Mongolian Republic. A picture of a Turkic knight and a deer showed a life portrayal of a knight holding a weapon and riding a armored horse chasing a Scythian deer. The Kingdom of Kitai was about 3,600 years ago. The deer species of this period were also named Scythian deer because of their slender faces and huge horns attached to their backs. What I saw was a petroglyph of vehicles. There are three horse-drawn carts in front of the cart, and two people are driving the two-wheeled cart. This painting is depicted with the effect of a plane silhouette, showing that people at that time had already understood the concept of three-dimensionality. . Next is a petroglyph depicting a wizard in Siberia, Russia. In the picture, a frog-shaped man with arms raised and legs squatting, with a square head and a square brain, looks like an alien. The symbol is a point inside the circle, which represents the male and female genitals in reproductive worship, and the frog itself has a very strong reproductive ability. If you look at it again, you will find that it has six fingers. Disabled people are in charge, showing that they are born with supernatural powers. Looking at the petroglyphs of Japan and South Korea, it is not difficult to find that because they are island countries near the sea, the petroglyphs in the two places show the living characteristics of hunting birds in the air and swimming fish in the sea, which has a clear contrast with our inland grazing and hunting. After seeing these petroglyphs above, we will understand that these are petroglyphs, that is, petroglyphs produced by hammering and grinding stone tools or metal tools on the stone surface. Here we appreciate the painted rock paintings from India, referred to as rock paintings. Here we see a petroglyph depicting a war scene. In the picture, two groups of people fight head-to-head. Some hold big knives, some ride horses. The most powerful is that the leaders of the two sides charge at the front on elephants. , it can be seen that at that time, he knew how to domesticate wild animals to help him fight. The most interesting part of this picture is that the people on the left side of the picture riding elephants are tall and big. In contrast, the troops on the right side are slightly smaller, and they are all leaning backwards. The state of defeat, and this kind of petroglyphs also exaggeratedly show the pride of the victors in their achievements. Finally, what we see here is a miniature petroglyph from Saudi Arabia. The length of each pattern here is no more than 5 cm. The blue and white one in the picture is the international scale. This pattern largely describes the abstract simplicity of the human body picture, but there are some very interesting symbols in it, which are very similar to the word "East" in our Chinese pictographs, but the time when this petroglyph was a guest was about 7000 years ago, which means that the appearance here can only be A coincidence.
To visit Ningxia, you can choose the local professional tourist transportation Ningxia Tourist Scenic Spot Through Train. The staff all wear yellow vests, and the little yellow people are hospitable. There are two tourist distribution centers in the new city railway station and the crescent moon in the old city. The square is convenient for accommodation nearby, there are many hotels, and the transportation is convenient. It is not far from the civil aviation bus, and it is very convenient whether it is by train or plane. The through train of the scenic spot has opened the line from the urban area to the scenic spots around Yinchuan, such as Shahu, Huangsha Ancient Ferry, Shuidonggou, Zhenbeibao Western Film and Television City, Xixia Royal Tomb, Helan Mountain Rock Painting, Shapotou, etc., which is very convenient.
