Muligou rock painting in Huli

Muligou rock painting in Huli

Hulimugou rock painting is located at the bottom of Nanshan Mountain in Qinghai Province, about 15 kilometers to the East. It was from Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, which crossed the Central Plains, and may extend to modern times. It makes up for the lack of cultural relics, documents and historical materials caused by the nomadic people's indefinite residence, enriches the treasure house of ancient Chinese culture, and has high artistic value.

brief introduction

Hulimugou rock painting is located at the bottom of Nanshan Mountain in Qinghai Province, about 15 kilometers east of ranhu village, qieji Township, Gonghe County, Hainan Province. It was created in the sixth to seventh centuries, spanning the Tang, song and Yuan Dynasties in the Central Plains, and may extend to modern times. Hulimugou rock art is a typical representative of Qinghai rock art with a large number and rich content. Rock paintings show a wide range of contents, including animals, people, hunting, grazing, plants, dance and sex. There are also auspicious characters in Tibetan, auspicious knots in Tibetan and symbols of Tibetan Buddhism.

Rock carvings are scattered on the ridge of a yellowish brown hillside about 100 meters long and 40 meters wide. A large black stone lies in the withered grass and stones on the hillside. After tens of thousands of years of wind and rain, it has become smooth and round. A crack on the top of the rock is so eye-catching. It is deeply embedded in the body of the stone. At first sight, I feel a faint pain for the scar. A bison carved on the rock, with its head down and tail raised, looks like a spray With a loud nose and a low throat, it seems that its front hooves are about to pick up the dust under its feet, so it angrily confronts with the enemy in front of it. The high shoulder blades show its pride and inviolability, and from its strong limbs, we can see that the blood is completely expanded at that moment.

There are blue sheep, horses and so on, foraging on the same grassland, or walking together on the vast grassland. The appearance of deer, snake, wolf, bighorn sheep and other wild animals in the rock paintings depicts a picture of the beautiful water and grass, and the harmonious coexistence of human, livestock and wild animals in a blue sky.

Rock paintings depict rows of ups and downs on the edge of fine sandstone. These rock paintings are not the traces of ancient religion, nor the romantic imagination of the ancestors, but a living picture of life, and an artistic representation of the rich and colorful grassland culture.

Travel

Although hulimugou rock painting is one of the rock paintings in Qaidam Basin, which is closest to Xining city and has convenient transportation, it is not easy to find it because it has not been developed yet. In addition, the rocks engraved with rock paintings are not obvious. If they are not specially visited, they will not be seen even if they walk near the rock paintings. Besides, the rock paintings are not on the roadside. Therefore, we must lead the way through the local guide.

Hulimugou rock paintings are separated from the south mountain of Qinghai Province in the town of Heimahe by the Qinghai Lake. In summer, you can get to hulimugou by horseback riding from Heimahe and climbing over the mountain in less than two hours. However, vehicles and even motorcycles can't cross it. You need to travel more than 100 kilometers to borrow the road from the boundary of wayuxiangka. The road to wayuxiangka forks not far from the famous Dashui bridge on the Qinghai Tibet highway. You can have a meal here and taste the famous delicacies. Wayuxiangka has been the site of reform through labor farm since liberation. Now abandoned, most of those abandoned houses have collapsed, and the ruins are naked in the sun, which is also a scene on the road. It's a bumpy road from wayuxiangka to muligou rock painting in Huli. It's on highway 30. It takes about an hour and a half for an off-road vehicle to drive.

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All the nomadic people in Qaidam, including Xiqiang, Tuyuhun, Tubo and Mongolia, have left footprints of grazing by water and grass on the vast grassland. With their dexterous hands and simple tools, they carved all kinds of pictures on the rocks, which became a valuable cultural heritage to record their production and life.

The rock paintings in muligou, Huli, are carved on the sandy rock surface by sharp tools, with the deepest carving mark of 2mm. Due to the unique climate here, the rock paintings are basically intact. The simple and plain lines are vivid and vivid.

The production method is to use blunt (or granite stone) to grind and carve on the relatively flat and smooth stone, and the line has no obvious depression. As the stone and chiseled lines are covered by oxide layer, the only difference between them is that the color of the lines is darker than that of the stone.

Address: the bottom of Nanshan Mountain in Qinghai Province, about 15 kilometers east of ranhu village, qieji Township, Gonghe County, Hainan Province

Longitude: 99.695976257324

Latitude: 36.314064025879