Wushu Content in Primitive Social Life: Textual Research Based on Northern Rock Paintings

Rock paintings, which are historical and cultural heritage carved on rock walls, entertain important historical value. The archery, fighting, and war carved in the images of rock paintings are important historical materials for studying the primitive Wushu culture in the north. The archeology, history, and iconography are used to study the primitive Wushu in the northern rock art images, trying to find its theoretical basis. It is believed that northern rock paintings reflect the technical methods, utensil culture, collective exercises and battlefield cooperative use of Wushu in the primitive society. The Wushu in northern rock paintings show the process of integrating Wushu and sacrificial culture under the guidance of primitive thinking, collective sacrifice provides an opportunity for Wushu to appear in collective activities; shamanists and witchcraft in shaman culture are important reasons for the deep integration of Wushu and ethnic culture. The Wushu content in northern rock paintings has regional aesthetic characteristics, which reflects the influence of regional culture on the development of Wushu technology and utensil culture.