Master Archaeologist

Judging from the logic of the cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui and the records of ancient documents, Sanxingdui should be a brilliant civilization with writing.

However, so far, only seven engraved characters have been found in Sanxingdui, and no systematic writing has been found. The facts discovered by archaeology contradict logical inferences.

The solution to this contradiction can only be revealed by continuing archaeology.

Fortunately, the archaeological excavation work in Sanxingdui has caused many big sensations all over the world.

But in fact, the excavation of this site has only just begun.

In an area of ​​12 square kilometers, only two sacrificial pits were excavated.

In addition to this time, there are only eight sacrificial pits.

The really important tomb area and palace area have not been found yet.

Even if no mature characters were found on the bronze wares in these sacrificial pits, it does not mean that the Sanxingdui people stopped using characters.

It can only show that Sanxingdui people would not engrave characters on bronze vessels when they offered sacrifices.

Although this is exactly the opposite of the situation of the Central Plains civilization, it is not incomprehensible.

Besides, it doesn't necessarily mean that the sacrificial offerings have no words.

Chen Han led the members of the team to the No. 16 sacrificial pit, and immediately started archaeological excavation work on the [-] cubic meter sacrificial pit.

There are [-] cultural relics with numbers, so even if some of them may be fragments, there are at least [-] cultural relics in this pit!

Maybe one of the cultural relics, like a gui, records the history of the ancient Shu Kingdom?
In case there are words like "Silkworm Cong" or "Yufu" or even "Du Yu" written on a certain cultural relic.

The ancient Shu Kingdom of "I am [-] years old, and I will not live with Qin Sai." I am afraid that it will become a real history, not an unofficial legend!
"It's so heavy!"

"Can we hug each other?"

"I guess Xuan, give it a try!"

Two wooden boards suspended in the sacrificial pit k8, Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng lay on the left and right, and stretched out their hands to a big statue in the pit.

"I don't think it's possible!"

"Try it."

"one two Three!"

"shake!"

"Yeah, don't move at all!"

Both Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng's faces were as red as pig livers, and they shook the big bronze statue vigorously.

However, the bronze vessel did not move at all.

Obviously, there was no way for the two of them to hug the Great Senior when they were lying on the board.

"Come again!"

"Three, two, one!"

"shake!"

This time, the two of them used their breastfeeding strength and finally shook the bronze vessel.

Lin Ya and the others standing beside the pit said with a smile, "It's shaken, but I can't lift it."

Chen Han shook his head and gave up this relatively "easy" extraction method.

The bronze ware they are extracting is a big mouth statue with obvious Central Plains style.

This is a type of bronze ware common in the Central Plains and the Yangtze River Basin in the Bronze Age. A large number of large mouth statues were also unearthed in Pit No. 1 and No. 2 of the Sanxingdui site.

The appearance of this kind of bronze ware provides conclusive physical evidence for the close connection between Sanxingdui and the Central Plains and the Yangtze River Basin.

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Li Bai's "not living with Qin Sai" should at least refer not to the Sanxingdui civilization, but to the later Shu Kingdom.

During the period when the Sanxingdui civilization existed, the people of Sanxingdui actually had a high degree of communication with the people of the Central Plains.

Obviously, the wine culture of merchants has greatly affected the civilization of Sanxingdui.

This kind of Dakouzun was used in the Shang Dynasty to hold the "Li (li)" that businessmen loved to drink. It was not only used for daily drinking, but also used to worship ancestors.

Businessmen have two major characteristics. One is that religious culture is very heavy, and everything must be sacrificed. Wizards or priests have a very important position in Shang civilization.

This is why Oracle has survived.

Another major feature is that merchants love to drink alcohol, and there are a large number of wine vessels in the tombs of merchant nobles.

Although there are also wine vessels in the tombs of the Zhou people, the number cannot be compared at all.

Obviously, there are extensive exchanges between Sanxingdui people and businessmen.

And the similarity between the two civilizations is very high.

People in Sanxingdui also worship the sacrificial culture very much, and attach great importance to "wizards and priests".

This point echoes the consistent impression of the Central Plains people on the ethnic groups in the Southwest.

Perhaps it is also because Sanxingdui people attach so much importance to sacrificial culture that they can have close communication with businessmen.

The two civilizations are very similar, so they will cherish each other, and there will be cultural and technological exchanges between them.

The Sanxingdui people also learned a lot of advanced bronze smelting techniques from the merchants, and then combined their own bronze smelting techniques to make these exquisite bronze wares.

Moreover, Sanxingdui people may have been influenced by the wine culture of merchants.

Therefore, Dakou Zun was found in several sacrificial pits.

3000 years ago, these big mouth statues, perhaps also filled with fine wine, were sent into the sacrificial pit to worship ancestors!
And this sacrificial behavior is most likely not the culture of Sanxingdui civilization itself, but learned from businessmen.

However, in the Yin Ruins, there are no bronze wares and sacrificial culture that clearly have the characteristics of Sanxingdui civilization.

It shows that merchants seem to have not learned any sacrificial culture from Sanxingdui people during their exchanges with Sanxingdui civilization.

At least those exaggerated masks and bronze figures only exist in the Sanxingdui site.

This is actually in line with scholars' guesses about the relationship between the Sanxingdui civilization and the Shang civilization.

Obviously, for the Sanxingdui civilization, the Shang civilization is a more advanced and mature civilization than them.

All along, only backward civilizations learn from advanced civilizations, but no advanced civilization learns from backward civilizations.

Sanxingdui is obviously a civilization slightly behind the Shang civilization, so their culture was influenced by the Central Plains culture, and many bronzes of the Central Plains style were unearthed.

However, no bronze wares in the style of the Sanxingdui civilization were unearthed from the Yin Ruins, which clearly shows that in the eyes of businessmen, the bronze techniques and styles of the Sanxingdui civilization do not need to be learned by themselves.

Merchants have their own complete set of sacrificial culture and will not be influenced by others.

From this point, it can be seen.

Although the Sanxingdui civilization is very splendid, it is definitely a wrong statement to say that this civilization in Sichuan is more advanced and advanced than the Shang civilization of the same period.

The Dakouzun in front of Chen Han from the Shang civilization had been drunk for more than 3000 years in the sacrificial pit, and the fragile mouth was deeply embedded in the soil.

Although more than 3000 years have passed, the exquisite reliefs and decorative patterns on the body are still intact, telling the story of the civilization exchanges that spanned time and regions more than 3000 years ago!

Master Archaeologist