The Paintings on the cliffs of the King Rock Intro to this
attraction: Malipo County is located in the southeast of Yunnan
and on the common border of China and Viet Nam. On the southern
end of the Yangjiao Laoshan Mountain about 1 kilometer to the
east of the county seat, there stands the upright King Rock
which is more than 20 meters high. Not far away from the King
Rock is the bay of the Guyang River. In June, 1983, some working
staff of cultural relic found colourful paintings on the cliffs
here. This provides new materials for the artistic work of cliff
paintings in China. The cliff paintings on the King Rock were
done with the three colours of black, red and white. The red
comes from the hematite powders. According to the content,
sculpt, dyes and tools of the paintings, these cliff paintings
are some of the cultural heritage of the New Stone Age. In
addition, people also found cliff paintings in the caves in the
Lion Mountain of the Qiubei County. The discovering of the cliff
paintings show again that