Rock Paintings in Helan Mountain are pictures before the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods carved on rocks by northern nomads and they reflect life customs, religious ideas, war activities and hunting activities. Rock Paintings in Helan Mountain are of simple carvings, rough lines, plain and simple composition and vivid image, also a unique mood and artistic value, providing valuable information for the study of living customs, religious ideas, astronomy and history of the ancient Chinese ethnic minorities.

The one-third Rock Paintings in Helan Mountain in Ningxia are located in Shizuishan. Rock Paintings in Shizuishan are mainly located in Heishimao, Jiucai ditch, Mairujing, Fanshigou, Daxia forest ditch, Hongguozikou, Guitou ditch, Baijiji ditch, Big and Small Xifeng ditch, where scatter rock paintings in various forms, combining static and dynamic style. The most representative is Rock Paintings in Heishimao. On the top of the mountain with an area of only over 1,000 square meters, black stones scatter with different shapes and shiny color. There are 59 rock paintings in total carved on such hard and delicate black stone. These rock paintings are vivid with different forms, which take the following contents as the subjects, including sheep, tigers, donkeys, wolves and pas de deux, hunting etc.. Most of the rock paintings are of clear and bright images and vivid lines. Among them the Group Goat deserves to be called the representative of Rock Paintings in Helan Mountain, which is 0.8 meters high and 0.64 meters wide, and of the chiseled depth of about 1.5 mm. The picture of tiger in Big Xifeng ditch, the “Classics for Generations” and national treasure called by experts of the autonomous region, boasts its form and spirit. Rock Paintings in Helan Mountain is being actively applying for the world cultural heritage.