A STUDY ON THE STAGES, AGES AND MEANING OF SEXUAL SACRIFICE OF THE KANGJIA SHIMENZI PETROGLYPH
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Abstract
Kangjia Shimenzi petroglyph in Hutubi County has attracted much attention from the academic community since its discovery, and its stages, ages, authors and content have always been a hot topic of discussion among scholars. By teasing out the relevant literature, conducting field surveys, and comparing similar remains in its same ages such as the Xiaohe cemetery and the Gumugou cemetry in Kong Que River, this article redefines the stages of Kangjia Shimenzi petroglyph. It is believed that the petroglyph has outstanding commonalities with the series of symbolic elements of the Xiaohe cemetery. The first discovery of Kangjia Shimenzi petroglyph is no later than the end of the 3rd millennium BCE, or even earlier, the latest age is about the mid of the 2000 BCE, or even later; The author of the petroglyph is proposed to be one of those people of Xiaohe culture; The content of the petroglyph shows that the ancestors of Xiaohe chose the deep mountain valley in the Danxia Mountain in Kangjia Shimenzi as an sacred place, to carry out the ceremony and show the image expression of reproduction worship with the help of natural landscapes with sexual divine power.