Abstract

Author:
Pengcheng Hu

Doi: 10.7508/jra.01.2023.34.40

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The Luo Yue people, the ancestor of the Zhuang people, painted ancient historical images on the rock walls of Huashan Mountain in Ningming county between the 5th century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. They have significant historical, cultural, and aesthetic value because they are artifacts left over from the religious practices people at that time engaged in. The Huashan rock art in Ningming have endured more than 2000 years of historical changes due to geological and natural environmental factors. These diseases include rock cracking, stalactite covering, flaking, and fading, which have caused some of the rock arts to be mutilated and blurred and diffuse, seriously compromising the integrity of the images and creating significant challenges for the research process. In this study, we primarily discuss the two techniques of “inpainting” and “mending old painting” in the restoration of paintings and calligraphy. We also develop a “full image” of the damaged rock art images from an artistic point of view, with the goal of restoring the original appearance of rock art images as much as possible. The objective is to return the pictures on the rocks to their initial form. By examining the image data and evaluating the combination of figures in rock arts, the findings of this research significantly advance our knowledge of the goals of the Luo Yue ancestors. These offered technical references for the identification of related rock art images as well as fundamental analysis and assessment material for upcoming restoration.

KEYWORDS:
Ningming Huashan Rock Art, Disease-image, Full Map, Data Statistics