However, in this 5000-year history, due to the lack of various ancient documents, there was a blank period in civilization, such as the ancient Shu culture, which was not recorded much in the pre-Qin civilization. Shu? The earliest Chinese characters were found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Although there are some suspected scripts such as Bashu and Yu Tu, these scripts are older than Oracle Bone Inscriptions and cannot be deciphered at present. The excavation of Sanxingdui is even more subversive.
Sanxingdui Site is located on Yahe River, 7 kilometers east of Guanghan, Sichuan, China, and 4 kilometers away from Nanxing Town. It belongs to the cultural site of the Bronze Age, which is made up of three rolling loess in the site? Samsung brings the moon? It is speculated that the site can be traced back to 2800 to 800 years ago.
China has a history of 5,000 years, not because of the legendary Emperor Yanhuang, nor because of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, but because of Sanxingdui cultural site. However, the ancient Shu civilization has always been a closed civilization, and even Li Bai's "Difficult Road to Shu" wrote at the beginning: Alas, the danger is high! The difficulty of Shu Dao is difficult to go to the sky!
Perhaps it is this closed civilization that is not recorded in major ancient books. Sanxingdui civilization was 1929, and local farmers discovered jade tools while driving in a ditch, which gradually led to Sanxingdui, which was first excavated in 1934, but stopped because of the war.
The second excavation began in 1950s, but we didn't realize the scale of Sanxingdui at that time, so we only excavated the northern part of Sanxingdui. The third excavation lasted for 20 years and went through the 1980s and 1990s. The excavation report Sanxingdui Site in Guanghan pointed out that Sanxingdui has distinct characteristics, which is different from any ancient culture.
Because the unearthed bronzes have subverted the cognition of archaeologists in the past, such as the bronze sacred tree, which is 384 cm high and has nine branches, on which birds live. This bronze sacred tree is exactly the same as the one in Shan Hai Jing: there is hibiscus in the Tang Valley, bathed for ten days, in the north of Blackpool.
Sanxingdui also unearthed a series of unexplained bronze cultural relics, such as bronze sun gear, bronze statue with a height of 262 cm, the world's largest bronze portrait, Jin Mianju, golden staff and so on. With the excavation of cultural relics, unexplained mysteries are also in front of archaeologists.
Sanxingdui doesn't have any Central Plains characters, even few Bashu languages, and most of them are bronzes, which has brought great problems to archaeologists. Xia, Shang and Zhou civilizations, at least myths and legends, can be used for reference, while ancient Shu civilization has a strange smell everywhere.
Some people even speculate that these civilizations do not belong to human beings, but are alien civilizations. Among them, the bronze statue with a height of 1.8 meters is the tallest bronze statue, and its hand seems to hold something. Obviously, its status was not low at that time, but it was unearthed. Didn't take anything.
Could it be a golden staff? But not in ancient China? The scepter theory? The only thing related to the scepter is Shan Hai Jing? Overseas north classics? Kuafu chased the sun and abandoned his staff to become Deng Lin? Said, can want to represent the status, the ancients to tripod-based, Xia Dynasty was founded? Zhu Yujiu Ding? Why did the ancient Shu people use a golden staff instead of a tripod?
At present, archaeologists can't interpret ancient Shu civilization, which has become one of the biggest problems in archaeology. As for not continuing to dig, it should be to protect the remaining cultural relics. After all, technology was very limited at that time.