我国是一个文物大国,岩画的分布与数量在世界上也是名列前茅的。早在公元前3世纪战国时代就已有记载。如《韩非子》以及汉代司马迁的《史记》,北魏时期郦道元的《水经注》,都记述了一些有关岩画的资料。尽管中国对于岩画著录很早,然而对其认识则很晚。直到19世纪80年代初,岭南大学黄仲琴教授对福建汰溪仙字潭岩画进行实地考察研究,中国的岩画研究才有了新的开端。岩画在我国分布的地区十分广泛,而在内蒙古、新疆、宁夏、甘肃、青海、四川、 Our country is a big country of cultural relics. The distribution and quantity of petroglyphs are also among the highest in the world. As early as the 3rd century BC, the Warring States Period has been recorded. Such as “Han Feizi” and Sima Qian’s “Historical Records” in the Han Dynasty, and “Water Jing Notes” of Yuan Daoyuan during the Northern Wei Dynasty, some of the materials about petroglyphs were recorded. Although China recorded the petroglyphs very early, its understanding was very late. Until the early 1880s, Professor Huang Zhongqin from Lingnan University conducted a field study on the rock paintings of Xiaoxi Xianzitan Lake, Fujian Province, China. Rock paintings are widely distributed in our country, while in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan,