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The surprise came in 1986, when experts and scholars at that time conducted six consecutive excavations on the east, west, and south sides of the Sanxingdui site based on the materials obtained from previous excavations.

This time, the ruins of the ancient city wall made of adobe were cleared out.

The east wall is about 1090 meters long, the south wall is about 1150 meters long, and the west wall is about 650 meters long.

Because it is a remnant, the original city wall may actually be longer.

House sites, sacrificial pits, workshop ruins and tombs were found in the city site.

The most important discovery is that in the two sacrificial pits No. 1 and No. 2, a large number of bronze wares, gold wares, jade wares, stone wares and ivory wares were unearthed.
Compared with the first discovery, the things discovered this time are much more valuable.

From November 2019 to May 11, archaeologists excavated the Sanxingdui site again.

Six newly discovered "sacrifice pits" have been unearthed. Gold mask fragments, bird-shaped gold ornaments, gold leaf, copper heads with painted eyes, giant bronze masks, bronze sacred trees, ivory, ivory fragments, jade cong, and jade tools have been unearthed There are more than 6 important cultural relics.

The six artifact pits newly discovered this time, and the two pits excavated in 6, are all distributed in the east of the Sanxingdui platform.

There are also small circular pits, rectangular trenches and large trench-like buildings related to sacrificial activities.

The shape and orientation of the six newly discovered "sacrifice pits" are similar to those of Pit No. 6 and No. 1986 excavated in 1, and the unearthed cultural relics are also similar.

The archaeological team also found traces of silk on the ash layer of Pit No. 4 and the bronze surface of Pit No. 3.

In the early Chinese era, most of the highest-grade silk was used in grand occasions such as sacrifices.

In the ancient Shu Kingdom, silkworms were raised and silk weaved long ago.

Such a technique was not uncommon in the ancient Shu Kingdom.

In the No. 5 "sacrifice pit", many pieces of gold and a large number of circular gold ornaments with holes, jade tube beads and ivory ornaments were cleared out.

Preliminary judgment shows that these pieces of gold, jade and gold masks are regularly combined, and they were used by the kings of ancient Shu to hold grand sacrificial ceremonies.

The latest carbon fourteenth measurement of No. 4 sacrificial pit shows that the time is about 1200 BC to 1000 BC, which is equivalent to the late Shang Dynasty to the early Western Zhou Dynasty.

1号祭祀坑是个长4米、底宽2.8米的长方形土坑，里面出土了各类器物420件，其中铜器就有178件。

There are human heads, kneeling figures, masks, human faces, dragon column-shaped vessels, tiger-shaped vessels, tiger-shaped ornaments, daggers, etc.

Along with the bronze wares, gold wares, jade wares, pottery wares, stone wares, bone wares, and large quantities of ivory, seashells, and bone dregs were unearthed at the same time.

Most of these utensils, especially the bronze utensils, have traces of fire.

Sacrifice Pit No. 2 is also a rectangular earth pit, 5 meters long and 2 meters wide at the bottom. 1300 artifacts of various types were unearthed, including 735 bronze artifacts.

Except for some utensils similar to Pit No. 1, bronze wares also include standing figures, animal masks, eye-shaped vessels, eye-bubble-shaped vessels, sun-shaped vessels, sacred trees, altars, and temples.

Surprisingly, pit No. 2 is the same as pit No. 1, and many utensils also have traces of fire.

Like those scattered bones and ivory, they were all burned white.

The necks of many bronze heads were melted by the fire and rolled up.

Some small copper vessels were even tightly glued together by burning.

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The bronze standing statue and the bronze sacred tree unearthed from Pit No. 2 were suspected to have been buried after being smashed to pieces by those who buried them.

Chen Wenzhe saw this very clearly, because the big bronze statue was broken into two pieces.

And various decorative accessories on the bronze sacred tree, such as leaves, sun god birds and other decorative accessories, were splashed everywhere.

In addition, many masks were also smashed into a pile of rotten copper, and some of them had been melted beyond recognition after being burned.

Chen Wenzhe fast forwarded, checking the archaeological harvest of that year.

Accompanied by archaeologists, he has come down for decades to watch the unearthed pieces of ancient objects.

Looking at the burned bronzes and ivory, he felt very bad.

These treasures, for what reason, were buried here after being burned.

And this requires him to look back, but the scene he sees now is also very attractive.

Chen Wenzhe saw that the archaeologists found something after observing the placement of the artifacts in the two sacrificial pits.

Most of the utensils in Pit No. 1 are stacked at the south end of the pit.

Larger jade wares, such as jade ge and jade chapter, are distributed in the east of the pit.

Smaller jade and stone tools, such as jade chisels, jade adzes, and jade axes, were stacked in the west corner of the pit.

Bronze human heads and human faces are distributed from the middle of the pit to the northwest line, while bronze wares are mixed in the bones.

The placement of utensils in Pit No. 2 is similar to that of Pit No. 1.

These things are clearly divided into three layers.

On the upper layer are 60 neatly arranged ivory pieces, under the ivory are large and medium-sized bronze wares, and on the lower level are many small bronze wares, ornaments of various colors and some jade wares.

Apparently, the burialists smashed and burned these artifacts before burying them.

Then according to the relevant etiquette procedures, after sorting and placing, the burial began.

Seeing this situation, Chen Wenzhe's mood improved a lot.

He found that these artifacts should not have been destroyed for no reason, perhaps it was a ritual.

The utensils were overfired, which is most likely the "burning sacrifice" mentioned in the oracle bone inscriptions.

The sacrificial items are about to be burned on the pyre.

The bone residues in the two pits were later identified as large animals, and there were no human bones.

This is basically in line with the sacrificial methods of "Mao Niu" and "Mao Yang" recorded in oracle bone inscriptions.

More importantly, most of these utensils are ritual utensils, which are specially used for sacrifices, so it can be confirmed that this is a special etiquette for ancestors of ancient Shu to sacrifice to heaven and gods.

With continuous fast forward, Chen Wenzhe discovered more and more secrets.

Soon, his sight was fixed on a tall bronze sacred tree.

This sacrificial pit should be Pit No. 2, but there are indeed many bronze sacred trees unearthed from it.

It turned out that Chen Wenzhe had always thought that there was only one bronze sacred tree unearthed in Sanxingdui.

Unexpectedly, what he saw now was quite a lot.

After counting carefully, it was found that there were 6 bronze sacred trees in the No. [-] sacrificial pit.

These bronze sacred trees are also different, there are 2 big and 4 small.

Among them, the largest No. 1 sacred tree has a height of 3.96 meters and a trunk height of 3.84 meters.

The sacred tree consists of a base, a trunk and a flying dragon.

The base of the sacred tree is conical, with patterns of the sun and clouds painted on it, which should symbolize the towering sacred mountain;

On the top of the mountain is the trunk.

The branches that "grow" from the trunk are divided into three layers from top to bottom.

Each branch is decorated with flowers, fruits and divine birds.

Beside the tree, there is also a horse-faced flying dragon, which is swooping down with its fangs and claws.

This made Chen Wenzhe naturally think of Kunlun, Fusang, Ruomu and Jianmu in the mythology of "Shan Hai Jing".

In this myth, the sun appears daily as the Golden Crow.

They rise along Fusang, descend along Ruomu in the evening, enter Yuyuan and Huangquan, circle back to Fusang from the ground, and rise from Fusang again the next day.