Gaolan Island Rock Painting is located in the valuable mirror bay southwest of Gaolan Island, and is 50 kilometers from Zhuhai City. The sea water is limpid, the sand is tiny and the rock is high. It was the place where human lived before more than 4,000 years ago. The bay is situated at the piedmont, the mountainside, with a distribution of the "talent stone", "the valuable mirror stone", "the large open area stone" and "the hide valuable hole" and 6 rock paintings altogether. They were discovered in October 1989, the engraving was on the smooth stone surface. The "hide the valuable cave" is the richest in resources, the biggest painting is 5 meters long and 3 meters wide, the entire painting assumes the shape of a boat as the center, the periphery with human dancing, the wave writing, the snake writing, the room shape writing and so on. The design is crowded and complex. It reflected the ancient sea life on the sea where it was the totemic and religious belief portrayal.



Name:Zhuhai Gaolan Island Rock Painting (Gaolandao Yanhua)
City:Zhuhai
Address:Nanshui County, Jinwan District, Zhuhai
Admission:Free
Hours: 08:00 am-02:00pm
Tel: 0086-756-2636603

This article was posted on 2007-08-22
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