What does Huashan mean in Zhuang language?

The meaning of Huashan in Zhuang language is as follows:

"In a narrow sense, Huashan rock paintings refer to the rock paintings of Huashan in Ningming County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and in a broad sense, they refer to the rock paintings discovered by archaeologists in Pingxiang, Longzhou, Ningming, Chongzuo, Fusui, Daxin, Tian and other counties in Zuojiang Valley, where Zhuang people live in concentrated communities.

Because Huashan Cliff Mural in Ningming County has the largest frame, the most portraits and the most complicated content, it is the representative work of cliff painting in the above places. Therefore, people call the rock paintings in the counties of Zuojiang River Basin Huashan Rock Paintings. "

Huashan Rock Painting is 44m high, 0/70m wide and covers an area of 7480m2. It was painted on a cliff from the Warring States to the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Zhuang language is called "Ba Cai" and the Chinese translation is "Colorful Mountain". The picture shows the river, and the cliff wall is obviously inclined inward. Painting is based on ochre red hematite powder as pigment, diluted and mixed with animal fat, and painted directly on the natural cliff with grass stalks or bird feathers.

The painting method adopts a single color block plane painting method, which only shows the external outline of the painted object without detailed description. For example, figures only draw the head, neck, body and limbs, without details such as the five senses. Simple style, rough style.

There are more than 0/900 existing images/kloc-with figures, animals, utensils, etc., mainly figures. The basic shapes of characters can be divided into upright and lateral lying. The portrait of the whole body is tall, with arms horizontally extended to both sides, elbows raised, legs spread apart, knees bent and crouched, and a long knife or sword worn around the waist. There are a lot of portraits on the side, all of which are very small. Most of them stretch out their arms from their chests, lift their legs forward, face one side, and do jumping movements.

In addition to figure rock paintings, animal images and utensils also account for a large proportion. Among them, the animal images of Huashan rock paintings are mainly dogs, all of which trot sideways; The images of artifacts mainly include knives, swords and bronze drums. Knives and swords are generally worn around the waist of decent people;

There are many bronze drums, but most of them are very simple, only drawing drums. Some drums have awns in the center, and some drums have ears on the sides. These interlaced images are combined into a unit, which fills the whole picture.

One of them is the most typical: centered on a tall man with a sword, there is a dog at his feet, one or more bronze drums under his crotch or beside him, and there are many short people sideways around or around.

These pictures may depict a sacrificial ceremony, which is a relic of witchcraft culture. Most of the rock paintings depict people with different shapes, and they can still be clearly seen above 1300, with the largest being as high as 3 meters and the smallest being less than 0.3 meters. Most of these characters are naked, with natural and simple images, hands held high and legs spread apart.

In the middle of the rock painting, there is a giant with a sword at his waist and a height of several meters, standing majestically on the back of a monster, watching everyone dance with paddles such as bronze drums and gongs. Rock paintings are primitive and simple, and the lines are rough and powerful. According to expert research, it is an artistic work left by Luo Yue, an ancestor of Zhuang nationality.

Huashan rock painting is rich in content and magnificent, and it is the largest rock painting spot discovered in China. After repeated superposition, the pictures have formed the characteristics of unique shape, simple style, bright color and full composition, which gives people a rough, bold and exciting artistic appeal.