We often hear that "China has been up and down for five thousand years", but now that is the twenty-first century, two thousand years have just emerged, why is it said to be five thousand years? In fact, China's history is divided into two major sections, the BC year and the Common Era year, such as the well-known Spring and Autumn Warring States is BC, before this Xia Shang Zhou are, the Xia Dynasty is the first dynasty recorded in the Chinese history books, about the 21st century BC to the 16th century BC, that is, it began more than 2,000 years BC, that is, it can be determined that China has a history of about 4,000 years, so how to judge the history of 5,000 years?
Some people may say that before the Xia Dynasty there was the Second Emperor of Yanhuang, in short, China must have more than four thousand years of history, but historians will not make groundless speculations, why is it five thousand years, which is to talk about the Sanxingdui site, one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of mankind in the twentieth century, which pushes the history of China forward to 4800 years ago, so there will be "five thousand years of China". The Sanxingdui site is located in the Sichuan Basin, that is, near the Yangtze River Basin, and it also proves that ancient Chinese civilization not only originated in the Yellow River Basin, but also in the Yangtze River Basin, which is also the matrix of Chinese civilization.
The Sanxingdui site, a human treasure that has been sealed for thousands of years, was discovered by local farmers in 1929 by accident a pit of jade tools and then excavated the existence of the entire site, but it was not turned upside down, but it can be determined that the Sanxingdui site is the largest, longest-lasting and most culturally rich ancient city, ancient country and ancient Shu cultural site found in the southwest region so far.
According to more than 70 years of archaeology, archaeologists have found a number of sacrificial pits, jade, pottery, gold and bronze, especially the two large sacrificial pits discovered in 1986, which unearthed a large number of ancient artifacts, such as a bronze statue of a standing person that is 2.62 meters high and weighs more than 180 kilograms.
The image of the portrait is a big eye straight nose, Fang Yi big ears, wearing a crown, wearing a left robe, wearing a foot bracelet, and the action of holding his hands in his arms, but he does not hold anything specifically, according to today's information, we do not know the connotation of this action.
But what is even more strange is his eyes, the pupils protrude forward, and even the columns of the eyes protrude to 9 centimeters, according to the records of the Shu culture - "Shu Hou silkworm bushes, its eyes are longitudinal, the first called the king", it seems that the more prominent the gaze, the more lofty the status.
There are also excavated golden rods, which experts have the most opinions on, and there is still a great controversy, perhaps this can prove that it is not the West that has the scepter, but also the ancient Chinese scepter.
Moreover, bronze statues and golden rods and other artifacts are very close to the world's famous Mayan culture and ancient Egyptian culture, which really makes archaeologists wonder, is Sanxingdui possibly the center of the world's pilgrimage?
Due to the extremely limited historical information of the excavations, and no written records have been found in the site, the text here is aimed at the words understood by ordinary people, such as the pattern engraved on the golden staff, experts cannot determine whether it is a text or a diagram, and they cannot answer the confusion at all.
Sanxingdui ruins have 12 square kilometers, but only 7,000 square meters have been excavated, archaeologists have not excavated in a big way, because the more further excavations, the more they will give them the greater surprises, but they can never solve the puzzle one by one, and in view of the protection of underground cultural relics, so they stopped continuing to excavate, but the exploration of Sanxingdui culture has never stopped, archaeologists want to unveil the mystery of Sanxingdui, a glimpse of the historical style and wonder.