What are the characteristics of Matangba rock paintings?

The hanging coffins of Matangba have been damaged by wind and rain. The rock paintings are red and painted on the rock wall next to the hanging coffin. Among the rock paintings, the single figure painting is the most, followed by the rider. Animals include tigers, rhinos, fish, birds and symbols. Among the animals, a single horse is the most, and the stables are also painted.

Matangba rock painting is an important branch of southwest rock painting system. Hanging coffin burial is a kind of wind burial, that is, hanging the coffin for burying the body on a high cliff by the river. Gong County is one of the most concentrated areas of hanging coffins in China, and this area is also the area where ancient Bo people lived, so it is also called "Bo people hanging coffins".

Hanging coffin rock painting in Gongxian County is a unique cultural phenomenon, which, accompanied by hanging coffin burial custom, vividly records the living conditions and spiritual world of the ethnic minorities "Bo people" in China on the cliffs.

Although these rock paintings are the works of ethnic minorities who have not been trained in painting, and their images are "naive", they occupy an important position in the cultural treasure house of ancient ethnic minorities in China.