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Kangjia Shimenzi rock painting is a rare rock painting of reproductive worship in China and in the world. Located in the hinterland of the Tianshan Mountains in Hutubi County, Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, on the Neogene siltstone wall on the northwest bank of the confluence of two mountain streams. The rock surface is flat, about 10 meters above the ground. The picture is 14 meters long from east to west, more than 9 meters high from top to bottom, and the entire area is about 120 square meters. Two to three hundred figures and animals of different sizes and shapes are engraved on it. The big one is 2.04 meters high, and the small one is 19 centimeters. There are men and women, standing or lying down, clothed or naked, men and women combined pictures, two-headed and three-headed images. The petroglyphs adopt the technique of bas-relief, and the faces of the carved characters are uniform and thin, with well-developed eyebrows, big eyes, high noses, and small mouths, and the images are beautiful. Wearing a tall hat and feathers, it looks like a dance. A considerable number of pictures show or metaphor the actions of male and female copulation. Under this image, rows of villains are also engraved and danced happily, expressing the desire to pray for the reproduction of offspring and the prosperity of the population. It truly reflects the life scenes of the group marriage system in which primitive people prayed for fertility and multiplication of population.
On the rock wall less than 10 meters away to the left of the rock painting, there is a cave that drips water all the year round, which is called "Sacred Spring" by the local people.
