Historical and Cultural Interpretation of the Rock Paintings of the Heilan Mountains in Ningxia
The Heilan rock paintings in Ningxia are famous all over the world.The researchers are hard to find such abundant rock paintings about music and dance performance in other areas.So they are quite valuable for music history research.Based on relevant researches,the author con-cludes tentatively that these rock paintings which about music and dance reflected the real life of the prehistoric nomadic people in the region,and showed both distinctive national and common charac-teristics of the prehistoric music civilization,i.e.they are closely connected with the prehistoric civilization in Central China,which is the result of the multi-ethnic music culture communication.
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