Chief reporter of Jimu News Rong Yu
National treasure to accompany you to spend the New Year - at about 11:00 p.m. on January 31, Zhang Guoguo, a famous actor and docent of "National Treasure" No. 001, appeared on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and joined hands with young archaeologist Ran Honglin to introduce the newly unearthed national heavy weapon to the national audience: the bronze mask of cultural relics unearthed from the Sanxingdui site.
Ran Honglin, director of the Sanxingdui Archaeological Research Institute of the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, excitedly introduced to everyone on the stage that the bronze mask that appeared at the Spring Festival Gala came from The No. 3 pit of the Sanxingdui site, which is the largest known bronze mask in the world and has a history of more than 3,000 years.
After archaeological research, the casting technology and alloy ratio of Sanxingdui bronze mask belong to the same system as Anyang Yin Ruins, reflecting the profound influence of the Central Plains culture on sanxingdui culture, and confirming the pluralistic integration and profoundness of Chinese civilization.
Width 131cm, height 71cm, depth 66cm, weight 131 pounds, wide and wide, angular - the bronze mask that appeared in front of the national audience attracted attention and the aura was mysterious. As Zhang Guoli said, "At a glance of 3,000 years, this is the magnificent and romantic ancient Shu civilization." ”
According to the official introduction of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the bronze mask was extracted from the pit on June 23, 2021, which is a typical artifact of the Sanxingdui culture, reflecting the understanding and thinking of the ancient Shu ancestors on the natural things and the world of gods and gods.
Located in Guanghan City, Deyang, Sichuan Province, about 40 kilometers from Downtown Chengdu, sanxingdui ruins are one of the most important ancient sites in the pre-Qin period in southwest China. Since its discovery in 1929, more than 10,000 numbered cultural relics have been unearthed, including gold masks, top statues, round square figures, large masks, altar models, kneeling bronze figures, ivory, etc. Due to the peculiar shape of the excavated cultural relics, the Sanxingdui site has been an archaeological project that netizens are extremely concerned about in recent years.
In June last year, some cultural relics excavated from the Sanxingdui site such as bronze masks, bronze heads, and bronze statues visited Jiangcheng for the first time to participate in the Panlongcheng Ruins Museum's "Yangtze River Wanliqing - Yangtze River Basin Bronze Ware Exhibition", attracting many visitors to punch in and become one of the most popular exhibits in the exhibition.
Previously, many netizens believed that the shape of the cultural relics unearthed by Sanxingdui was too advanced, suspected of being "extraterrestrial cultural products", and this view also made the Sanxingdui cultural relics more and more "out of the circle", and even attracted the attention of archaeology enthusiasts around the world. In response to this view, archaeologist and professor Zhang Changping of Wuhan University once said in an exclusive interview with Jimu News reporter that there are many non-Sanxingdui elements in the cultural relics excavated from the Sanxingdui site, and there is a lot of evidence that shows that "they are imitating the things of the Central Plains cultural background, which shows that they have great admiration for the Central Plains culture." ”