Sanxingdui site is a Bashu cultural site about 5000 to 3000 years ago. There are three different but developing archaeological civilizations in the site, namely, the first civilization represented by the site group of Longshan era in Chengdu Plain; The second civilization represented by Sanxingdui, a large ancient city in Shang Dynasty, and the highly developed bronze civilization; The third-class civilization represented by Sanxingdui ancient city abandoned from the end of Shang Dynasty to the beginning of Western Zhou Dynasty is the "Twelve Bridges Civilization" in Chengdu.
In Chengdu Plain 5000-3500 years ago, Sanxingdui surpassed other surrounding cities in development and became the focus of attention of the central city and surrounding cities in Chengdu Plain.
In Shang Dynasty, Sanxingdui has developed into a highly developed bronze civilization center, which is the heyday of Sanxingdui civilization, that is, the early Shu kingdom, the most brilliant and mature period in the historical process of the ancient Shu kingdom for more than 2,000 years, representing the highest achievement and contribution of Shang civilization in the Yangtze River basin.
By deciphering Sanxingdui civilization, bronze figures can not only solve the eternal mystery, but also prove that the origin of Chinese civilization is diverse, which is not only a major archaeological discovery.
Among the cultural relics unearthed for the first time, the most striking thing is a blue pottery pot with two ears, and the side "ear" has been broken. What surprised archaeologists the most was a set of jade ritual vessels unearthed in the No.3 ash pit. This ritual vessel has a wall, piece by piece. According to the stationmaster of Sanxingdui Workstation, these three jade ritual vessels were made in Shang Dynasty, which were used to worship heaven, country and earth respectively, and were also found in previous excavations. However, judging from the three ritual vessels found, it can be judged that the ash pit discovered this time is a sacrificial pit, but the scale is small. Zhao Dianzeng, deputy director of Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, believes that this excavation has provided many new important clues and basis for further study of Sanxingdui culture in the future, and has helped and played a role in solving the mystery of the origin, development and disappearance of Sanxingdui culture.
The excavation site is only 1929 meters away from the site where the cultural relics were first discovered in Sanxingdui. It is located on the east-west axis of Sanxingdui site, which is the area within the wall of Sanxingdui site near the Palace Temple.
According to experts' inference, the palaces and ancestral temples in ancient Shu should be within 2 square kilometers of the excavation area, with important cultural relics. However, this kind of excavation is only carried out within 500 square meters. Whether we can gain anything in this respect is still unknown. It seems that we can only rely on luck.
Archaeologists at the site said that because the excavation site is very close to the inner wall, it is very likely that palaces and ancestral halls will not be excavated. The inner wall of the ancient city is related to the division of labor in cities with ancient cultural relics. It is speculated that there should be dense architectural relics below. According to expert analysis, this should be the residential area of the ancient city. There are basically no articles for daily use in a large number of bronzes unearthed in Sanxingdui, and most of them are sacrificial articles, which have different regional and cultural characteristics. Among them, there are obvious characteristics of Shu culture and other regional cultures, such as bronze statues, gold bars and other items. This shows that Shu culture has begun to blend with other cultures.
Bronze figure statue