I recently watched the documentary "Seeing Sanxingdui Again", which made me very interested in archeology and cultural relics. After watching it, I went to the museum to visit and explain it, and I was fascinated by it.
Sanxingdui is located in Guanghan City, Sichuan. So far, eight sacrificial pits have been discovered in Sanxingdui. The newly discovered six sacrificial pits have certain orientations and are connected like the Big Dipper. The Yan Family Courtyard was first discovered in 1921, fifteen miles to the west, with the three-star Yuedui. Before 1986, official archeology was conducted. Pit No. 1 and Pit No. 2 were discovered, and 6,000 cultural relics were unearthed. After sleeping for thousands of years, they shocked the world when they woke up. In December 2019, Pit No. 3 was discovered, opening a new chapter in archaeology. In September 2020, Pit No. 4-8 was launched, with multi-disciplinary coordination and high-tech archaeological methods, and an epic excavation.
Deeper in history is the ancient and mysterious ancient Shu civilization, with gold, ivory, bronze, jade, silk, and the unique and dazzling Sanxingdui. It dates back to about 4800-3100 years ago and lasted for more than 2000 years. The Shu civilization is earlier than the ancient Greek civilization. The Sanxingdui ruins are the greatest discovery of the 20th century and the ninth wonder of the world.
Sanxingdui was first discovered at the end of the 20th century. Along with the century-old development of Chinese archeology, Sanxingdui civilization has been annihilated in the dust of history to being discovered bit by bit. To greatness, an ancient world is gradually pieced together from the fields. Gold masks, bronze sacred trees, ivory, silk, kneeling figures, sacred birds, etc. all say that if you don’t go to Sanxingdui, you won’t know how poor your imagination is. The discovery of Sanxingdui has made Chinese civilization even richer, more long-standing, extensive and profound.
Live up to the encounter and take a look at the Sanxingdui cultural relics for a thousand years. They are exquisite and ingenious. They are the embodiment of a high degree of civilization. What kind of life do the people of Sanxingdui live? What happened and why? Why are so many sacrificial objects buried and burned? Why are there so many ivory? Why is the ancient city of Sanxingdui in a relatively closed basin like Sichuan? Why does this civilization last for 2000 years? There are countless reasons why Waiting for archaeologists to decipher, from field survey, to excavation preparation, to on-site archaeology, cultural relic extraction, to cultural relic cleaning, cultural restoration, cultural relic preservation, scientific research and judgment, etc., archaeologists are gradually deciphering the mystery of the Sanxingdui civilization that sunk for thousands of years. , gradually outlines an ancient country that has gone away for more than three thousand years.
"With silkworms and fish, how confused was the founding of the country? You are forty-eight thousand years old, and you are not inhabited by Qin Sai." When Li Bai wrote such a poem, the myth of the ancient Shu Kingdom has been circulating for thousands of years. spread in time and space, with admiration and piety, we follow the glory of our ancestors, yearn for the long and mysterious ancient Shu Dynasty across the land of Bashu, look at the auspicious clouds of phoenixes, raise our eyes to the sacred tree, and sacrifice in the mountains and mausoleums. Mu Mu, the sun shines in the sky, its light is bright. Sanxingdui may not be a myth, but a legend.
Looking back into the past, discovering immortality, exploring the unknown, and revealing the origins, generations of Chinese archaeologists have been rigorous and realistic, exploring civilization, and bringing us closer to history step by step. Things change, the earth changes, the loess is peeled off, and the historical passage of the ancient Shu civilization is slowly opened. Tracing the trajectory of history and exploring where we come from may be the meaning of archeology.