Sanxingdui civilization
As far as the historical materials of cultural relics are concerned, the ancient Shu Kingdom and the Shang Dynasty in the Central Plains are not subordinate, but two relatively independent countries. At present, many of the Oracle bone inscriptions found in Shang Dynasty are incidents in which the Shang army fought against Shu people, but most of them started from beginning to end. In Sanxingdui site, a small number of weapons, scepters and artifacts engraved with Shang dynasty characters were unearthed as trophies, which shows the strength of ancient Shu.
Sanxingdui civilization inherits the ancient Shu Baodun culture, enlightens Jinsha culture (see Jinsha site) and Cuba, and lasts about 2000 years. It is an important site of early civilization in the Yangtze River valley of China, and the earliest known civilization in the history of China. Sanxingdui culture is one of the origins of Chinese civilization.
The Origin of Sanxingdui Civilization
The discovery of Sanxingdui pushed the history of ancient Shu to 5000 years ago. Sanxingdui site is an ancient Shu cultural site dating from 5000 to 3000 years ago, with an area of 12 square kilometers. This is one of the major archaeological discoveries in China in the 20th century. Since the 1920s, Chinese and foreign archaeologists have carried out a large number of archaeological excavations and special studies, and discovered the ruins of city walls and a large number of exquisite cultural relics. The discovery of Sanxingdui ruins and cultural relics strongly proves the existence of the ancient Shu state three or four thousand years ago and the diversity of the origin of Chinese civilization. 1988 1 was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Sanxingdui civilization
Where does Sanxingdui culture come from? A large number of bronze figures and animals here do not belong to any category of Central Plains bronzes. Incredibly, there is not a word left on the bronze ware.
The unearthed "Sanxingdui Man" has high nose and deep eyes, prominent cheekbones, wide mouth and big ears, and pierced ears. Unlike China people, he looks like a "foreigner". Chen Dean, stationmaster of Sanxingdui Workstation of Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said in an interview that Sanxingdui people may come from other continents and Sanxingdui civilization may be a "mixed civilization".
Why is it called sanxingdui
There are three loess piles near the excavation site of Sanxingdui site. It is said that the Jade Emperor sprinkled three handfuls of soil on the Mamu River, and then it became three stars, so it was called Sanxingdui.
The naming of archaeological sites should be based on the small place names where the sites are located, so as to accurately reflect the location of the sites. Otherwise, different sites will have the same name. The so-called small, relative to the provincial and county administrative divisions, generally refers to the name of the village where the site is located, or the local people's name for a smaller place in a village. "Li Sangu Team" and "Sanxingdui" are like this. These names are not the names of the site itself (how Sanxingdui people called their settlements at that time, which can't be verified now), nor are they subjectively invented by archaeologists, but the existing place names (even if they are passed down from history, they usually don't go back for a long time, especially in the era where the site is located).
Sanxingdui cultural relics
The unsolved mystery of Sanxingdui
1in the spring of 929, Yan San brothers in Moon Bay, Guanghan, Sichuan, dug up the world-famous Sanxingdui treasure that had been sleeping for more than 3,000 years. People found a large number of grotesque bronze heads, masks, bronze ritual vessels and jade articles here. Confusingly, all these items were destroyed. Because there is no written record, Sanxingdui culture has become a huge mystery, and speculation and controversy have since begun.
What does the bronze vertical mask mean?
For the understanding of the eyes of Sanxingdui bronze statue and the purpose of the big mask bulge, Mr. Duan Yu, an expert on Sanxingdui culture, thinks that the eyes of Sanxingdui portraits look down, and these statues are the objects of sacrifice and have a high status, so they look down. Sanxingdui also has many other eyes, many of which have no pupils and are divided into various types, which probably represents a special feeling of Shu people for eyes.
Perhaps it can be speculated that Yufu in ancient Shu is the decider of making facial images. Mr. Duan Yu believes that it is by making and worshipping this portrait of Can Cong that the ancient Shu people effectively controlled the idolatry of Can Cong adherents to their former king, thus successfully achieving the political goal of legally ruling Can Cong adherents.
Sanxingdui cultural relics
Is the bronze statue inlaid with gold imported?
The gold mask was unearthed on1July 27, 986. The remaining height of the gold mask is 1 1.3 cm, and the remaining width is 2 1.5 cm. When people find them, they will naturally think of similar cultural relics in West Asia and North Africa.
Because Jin Mianju and golden staff are common in tombs in ancient Egypt and West Asia, people's eyes naturally move from Sanxingdui to the west. Duan Yu believes that the tradition of representing power with a staff originated in West Asia. According to the research of foreign scholars, the staff of West Asia spread westward to Egypt, and later ancient Greece inherited this tradition. Moreover, from an artistic point of view, these major civilizations are similar, and one of them is the direction of development. For example, in the Near East, it developed to Egypt, then to South Asia and India, and similar cultural factors appeared in India. In this long cultural sequence, China was relatively late.