religion
Among the cultural relics excavated from sanxingdui no. 1 and no. 2 sacrifice pits, especially bronze and jade ware, it can be said that most of them
The numbers are all related to religious rituals (activities), but the instruments directly cast into religious worship are larger than the above
The small bronze sacred tree and various hanging ornaments on the sacred trees and the images of birds and dragons. Temples, altars, sun-shaped vessels, bronze-shaped vessels, and all kinds of copper eyeballs, copper-eyed ornaments, etc., are on the other hand. Bronze eyes, eyeballs, eye-shaped ornaments, can be formed separately, but also can be combined into one.
157. Copper zhang-shaped ornament, thin sheet-shaped, with a fork-shaped blade at the front of the projectile, with a high and a low tip; left, K2:194-3, residual length 5.2, width 1.4 cm; medium, K2:194 -2, residual length 6.5, width 1.2 cm; right, K2: 144-3, length 6.1, width 0.7 cm.
158. Bronze gui-shaped ornament. K2: 194-4, the top is mutilated, the shape of the instrument is narrow and long, the sides are straight, the residual length is 6.5, the width is 1.2 cm. K2: 135-32, residual length 6, width 1.1 cm.
159. Bronze zhang-shaped ornament, K2: 144-5, flat body, forked front with a blade, the whole vessel resembles a plant bud "breaking out of the earth". Length 14.2 cm.
The picture is excerpted from the "Complete Record of Cultural Relics Unearthed from Sanxingdui"
Published by Tiandi Publishing House in 2009
Editors: Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Sanxingdui Museum, Sanxingdui Research Institute