中国岩画的文化坐标

The Cultural Coordinate of Chinese Cliff Paintings

中国的岩画因其历史文化背景不同,在内容和形式上与西方原始岩画有很大差别。从本质上讲,中国岩画文化是独立于中原农耕文化之外,并与之平行发展的少数民族混合经济文化与游牧经济文化的产物。

Chinese cliff paintings are different from western original cliff paintings in the content and form due to different historical and cultural background. Essentially, Chinese cliff painting is an outcome of mixed economy and culture of the minorities and the nomadic economy and culture, which is independent from, and developing in parallel with the farming eulfure of the central plains （comprising the middle and lower reaches of the Huanghe River）.