More than 2,000 years ago, the Luoyue people created some magnificent pictures on the precipice along the banks of the Ming River. After thousands of years, it continuously attracts numerous scholars and tourists at home and abroad to do research as well as visit the magical rock painting left in Chongzuo, Guangxi.
The Huashan Rock Painting, a piece of treasured art in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has been listed on the World Heritage List. Standing in front of the rock painting, you will feel like entering into a far ancient society, enjoying happiness and gratefulness with them, and already forgetting to return. There is no conclusion yet for the content of the painting up to now. Maybe it represents a kind of language symbol, or celebration ceremony, or the blessing for combating flood, or grand meeting concerning war affairs, or primitive religious offering sacrifice to ancestors. Those who have ever been to Huashan, not only highly praised its magnificence, but also were surprised at its mysteriousness: how did the ancestor paint on such precipice; and what kind of dyeing stuff can never fade under the erosion of wind and water for years, etc. Now, let’s cruise down the Ming River, and uncover the stories behind the Luoyue people in Chongzuo.