Our 2/3 Rock Painting Points 

Have Not Yet Entered the Cultural Security System 

09:06:00 Aug. 28, 2014, Source: Xinhua Net

Xinhua Net Yinchuan Aug. 27 allies (Fumei Ai, Yuting Ni)  President of Chinese rock painting association, Jianping Wang said at the opening of the 2014 Helan International Mountain Rock Painting Summit in Yinchuan. The achievement and regret of research and protection exist in Chinese rock paintings together. 75 percent of rock paintings among 1266 rock painting points found already has not still been graded which failed to enter into the three level cultural relics protection units.

Jianping Wang said, rock painting is the graphic language drawn and engraved by primitive ancients, sealing memory of swire period, recording the development trace of human history and leaving many great puzzles. Rock paintings have been discovered in all continents around the world. China is the first and also a big one. Those rock paintings found out has been extended from the old stone age to the modern, distributing in 31 provincial-level administrative regions including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

“In China, the protection work of rock painting research started over one hundred years. Since the new China establishment to today, the national culture department has had 19 rock painting points as a national key cultural relics protection units and has invested heavily to protect many of the rock paintings. There are 88 rock painting points that are classified as provincial heritage conservation units, 199 points are listed as heritage units at the county level.” He said.

However, 75% among 1226 points found so far could not enter the three level cultural relics protection network for the lack of effective protection.

“China has 10000 years of rock painting retained history with a painting history of discovery for 2000 years.” Jianping Wang said, “ How to protect the precious cultural heritage well left by ancients in order to have a certain position for Chinese rock art cultural heritage in the international rock art circles is a direction for joint efforts of Chinese rock painting scholars. ”

‘Rock paintings-the bridge in the world’as the theme of the 2014 Helan International Mountain rock summit attracted many international rock art experts from Germany, France, India and other countries to come to the scene for exchanging views on its research, protection and other topics.