岩画为远古初民在深山岩壁或洞穴中遗留下的一种图像文化,是一种世界性的原始文化遗存与唯一保持最初原生状态的史前文物艺术,也是人类学、文化学、宗教学、艺术学、文字学,乃至符号学研究中无比珍贵的原始资料中国已发现的岩画约十余万幅,是世界上岩画遗存最丰富的国家之一,依其图像符式特征,可分为北、南、西三大系统。北部岩画的图像符式又可分为动物、狩猎、放牧及人面形四大类,其时代大多 The rock paintings represent the image culture left by the ancient early peoples in the rock walls or caves of the deep mountains. They are a kind of worldwide original cultural relics and the only prehistoric cultural relics that kept their original state. They are also anthropological, cultural, religious and artistic Science, philology, and even the most precious raw materials in semiotic studies. About a hundred thousand rock paintings have been discovered in China, one of the most abundant remains of petroglyphs in the world. According to their image symbolic features, they can be divided into northern, South and West three systems. Northern rock paintings of the image symbols can be divided into animals, hunting, grazing and humanoid four categories, most of its times