Records of the Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art can be dated to the Song dynasty. Continuation to Records of Diverse Matters by Li Shi of the Song dynasty says that “on the cliffs by a deep stream between Guangdong and Guangxi can be found the shadows of ghosts looking like ink wash paintings. Boatmen piously offer sacrifices to them as if to their ancestors”. The shadows of ghosts probably refer to the rock art.

The Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art was created based on “crouching figures”. Stereotyped and repeated crouching figures show that primitive witchcraft and religious sacrifice are simple, crude and highly ceremonial, intending to allow communication between man and nature, gods and ancestors.