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Chapter 1434 Ancient Shu civilization, an important member of Chinese civilization

Looking at the bronze ware in front of him, Chen Wenzhe was very moved.

If you are not knowledgeable, who would have thought that some of the bronze wares here might have been made by our ancestors five thousand years ago?
The technology shown in the bronze ware here is definitely not something that any tribe can do.

To form a civilization that has developed this level, at least a city-state or even a kingdom must be formed.

"I don't know if the Sanxingdui civilization has been thoroughly studied now? Who left these exquisite works of art?"

No matter who, after seeing so many exquisite bronzes, will have this idea.

Even Chen Wenzhe wanted to know what kind of era such exquisite works of art would have given them the soil to grow.

Who it is should still be a mystery.

However, it is certain that it belongs to the ancient Shu civilization.

It is not difficult for modern people to resolve years of controversy and confirm the age of the Sanxingdui sacrificial pit.

Now the archaeological team has carried out carbon-200 dating on nearly 14 samples, and the dating data is concentrated from 1131 to 1012 BC.

除五号坑和六号坑年代稍晚之外，3号坑、4号坑、7号坑、8号坑的埋藏年代一致，为商代晚期，距今约3200年至3000年。

This resolves the controversy over the age of the "sacrifice pit" over the past three decades.

It is with such a large-scale discovery that it is confirmed that the ancient Shu civilization is an important part of the Chinese civilization.

The excavations time after time, and the new artifacts discovered all show the close cultural connection between the Sanxingdui site and other regions in China.

For example, the bronze statues, bronze jars, and bronze bottles found in Pit No. 3 and Pit No. 8 are typical bronze wares of the Yin Shang culture in the Central Plains.

The jade cong found in Pit No. 3 and Pit No. 4 came from the Qijia culture in the Gansu-Qinghai region.

The collared jade bi, jade Zhang, and jade Ge found in Pit No. 3, No. 7, and No. 8 have been found in Nanhe, Xishan, Qilu, and the vast South China region.

The large number of gold objects found in each pit is consistent with the tradition of using gold objects in the half-moon zone since ancient times.

The sacred tree, the statue of a kneeling figure, and a large number of dragon-like utensils indicate that the users of the Sanxingdui site are similar to those in other parts of China in terms of self-identity, etiquette, religion, and understanding of heaven, earth, and nature.

This undoubtedly clearly shows that the ancient Shu civilization to which the Sanxingdui site belongs is an important member of the Chinese civilization.

If you take a closer look at the precious cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui, you can really find many interesting things.

Since the first excavation of Sanxingdui, there have been many precious cultural relics in various forms.

Including "Pottery Pig" in "Angry Birds", "Bronze Beast" like a robot dog, etc.

Of course, these are all strange and alternative, and more of them are precious treasures connected with our Greater China civilization.

Like a bronze mask, this bronze mask is 131cm wide, 71cm high, 66cm deep, and weighs 131 catties.

It has a broad forehead and an exaggerated face. The lines of eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, and ears are smooth and sharp.

This is a large bronze mask with the most complete shape, the largest volume, and the best preservation unearthed at the Sanxingdui site.

There are quite a few bronze masks like this found in China.

The bronze mask is actually a kind of ancient mask, which has been unearthed in many places in our country.

These bronze masks have different shapes, among which, they are mainly divided into Yinshang bronze masks and Sanxingdui masks.

Since the 60s, archaeologists have unearthed many Shang Dynasty bronze masks.

For example, Panlong City in Hanwu City collected 1 beast mask.

There are also 14 bronze beast masks unearthed in Gusu Village, Chenggu, Shaanxi.

Others include a merchant tomb in Liujiahe, Pinggu, the capital of gods, in which five bronze human masks were unearthed.

In 1976, twenty-three bronze masks of the Shang Dynasty were unearthed in Gusu Village, Chengxi, Shaanxi.

The face shapes in these bronze masks are oval and round, with deep concave eye frames, protruding eyeballs, and round bars in the middle.

The ears are upright, the nose is protruding, and the fangs are carved.

The face shell is convex and concave, and the facial features are similar to the human face.

It has a fierce shape and can be worn on the face.

Judging from the shape and characteristics of these masks, they may be a kind of war masks at that time.

Why are bronze masks unearthed many times in the cultural relics of the Shang Dynasty?

According to the latest research by experts in Chu studies, these bronze masks are related to the atmosphere of witchcraft in the Shang Dynasty.

Judging from the literature records, the contents of oracle bone inscriptions and the unearthed bronze ritual vessels, witchcraft was prevalent in the Shang Dynasty, and bronze masks were props for witchcraft activities.

The Shang Dynasty was the heyday of slavery prosperity, and the rulers carried out a large number of sacrificial witchcraft activities.

On the one hand, they expect to be blessed by the gods and ancestors, and on the other hand, they show their kinship with the gods, so that the ruled people think that their rule is the will of heaven.

At the same time, there are still some Shang Dynasty tomb owners who were wizards themselves. After their death, they also buried the daily necessities they used when they were alive. Bronze masks are one of the burial objects.

Then there is the bronze mask unearthed from the Sanxingdui site. This period should be earlier than the Shang Dynasty.

Because the Sanxingdui site is an ancient Shu cultural site about 5000 to 3000 years ago.

It lasted for nearly 2000 years, from the late Neolithic period to the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty.

This pushed the history of Sichuan Province forward for more than 1000 years, so the discovery of the Sanxingdui site was one of the most important archaeological discoveries in my country in the last century.

At the Sanxingdui site, many bronze human masks were unearthed. A total of more than 20 human masks were unearthed, divided into three types: large, medium and small.

These bronze masks represented by Zongmu masks are one of the most distinctive cultural relics in Sanxingdui and one of the cultural relics with the most spiritual and cultural connotations.

They are the earliest and largest group of masks unearthed in our country.

In the exhibition hall of the Bronze Ware Hall of Sanxingdui Museum, there is a special hall for bronze masks, focusing on vertical-eye masks, crown-wearing vertical-eye masks and extra-large masks.

Among them, a mask is 64.5 centimeters high and 138 centimeters wide, with a wide mouth and big ears, which stretch obliquely, which is extremely exaggerated.

In particular, there is a square hole in the center of the forehead, which may have been originally decorated with decorations.

The most peculiar thing about this mask is that the eyes are cylindrical and protrude up to 16 cm.

This style is unique in the world!

There is also a medium-sized mask measuring 22.5 centimeters high and 42.5 centimeters wide.

The mask is square, wide-mouthed, wide forehead, long eyebrows, straight nose.

They are long ears with wide auricles and pierced earlobes. A hole is chiseled on the upper and lower cheeks and in the middle of the forehead in front of the ear.

The most noteworthy thing is the one that Chen Wenzhe saw at the beginning, his large bronze mask with a width of 1.31 meters, a height of 80 centimeters and a weight of 131 kilograms.

Of course, these bronze masks are not really important weapons in the Sanxingdui ruins.

Speaking of heavy weapons, they must still be cultural relics related to dragons.

(End of this chapter)