Last night, Sanxingdui newly unearthed cultural relics
- Large bronze mask
Spanning thousands of kilometers to debut the Spring Festival Gala,
Amaze the nationwide audience!
It is known that this is the largest known bronze mask in the world
Bronze masks unearthed in the past
What's the difference?
Bronze Great Mask Archive
Size: Width 131cm, height 71cm, depth 66cm
Weight: 131 kg
Physical features: its wide forehead, angular, eyebrows, eyes, lips and other lines are smooth, all prominent on the face, thick and long eyebrows as a raised shape, the mask on both sides of the upper and lower sides and the front of the forehead in the square perforation, may be for fixed purposes.
Significance: It is the largest and well-preserved large bronze mask excavated from the Sanxingdui site known.
Don't look at it as just a relic
It is the biggest "wrist" of the Spring Festival Gala!
Whether it is the rehearsal or the rehearsal of the Spring Festival Gala, the appearances are all 3D models of cultural relics. Only two live broadcasts, the bronze mask, appeared in person.
When it came to the TV station, the program team specially arranged a separate passage for the cultural relics to directly enter the first VIP room "waiting", entered the room, and there were security personnel outside the gate to prevent idle people from approaching. The section from the TV parking lot to the VIP room, and from the VIP room to the studio, was also cleared.
From Guanghan to Beijing is about 2,000 kilometers, in order to ensure the safe transportation of cultural relics, the transportation company advanced to the Sanxingdui Museum. Using 3D printing technology, a replica model of the original scale cultural relics was made, and the model was used to simulate the packaging exercise.
The State Administration of Cultural Heritage coordinates the transportation to ensure that all vehicles of cultural relics enter the local museum overnight to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
The freight company specially dispatched a vehicle with its own temperature and humidity control device, so that the environment in which the mask was located was always in a stable state.
The bronze mask is a typical artifact of the Sanxingdui culture
It has a history of more than 3,000 years
It embodies the understanding and thinking of the ancient Shu ancestors on the natural things and the world of man and god
At the beginning of 2021, archaeologists began excavations of the third "sacrificial pit"
By 30 January, more complete bronzes began to be revealed
On March 16, the buried cultural relics in the pit were fully revealed
There are bronze, jade, gold, ivory and other precious cultural relics
The large bronze mask is located in the south-central part of Pit 3
It is the earliest bronze artifact to emerge, which is particularly eye-catching
On June 23, 2021, the bronze mask was extracted from the pit
The casting process of large bronze masks by archaeologists and conservators
After analyzing the study, it is believed
Its production is first split into casting molding, by
The face, the back of the cheeks, the eyes, the ears and other parts are cast separately,
Combine them into one
Silk fabric remnants of warp and weft organization were also found in the right eye of the large mask
Sanxingdui bronze large mask excavation site. Image source: Red Star News
According to reports, the big mask was after the end of this "business trip" mission
Will soon return to Guanghan
In the future, the audience is expected to continue to be present
Sanxingdui Museum Cultural Protection Center saw its figure
Although the current bronze large mask has not returned to Guanghan
But Sanxingdui's unique bronze mask also has these
Bronze longitudinal mask
Among the many bronze masks unearthed in Sanxingdui, the most representative and famous is the bronze longitudinal mask known as "clairvoyance and tailwind ears", which has a unique appearance and huge volume that makes people feel boundlessly majestic. In addition, two other longitudinal masks were found in the Sanxingdui No. 1 and No. 2 pits. The 3 longitudinal masks found in Sanxingdui have square piercing holes on the frontal and sides of the forehead, which may have been used for hanging at a high place.
Academics generally believe that the long-sighted and wide-eared features of Sanxingdui masks seem to emphasize their extraordinary characteristics, in addition to their huge size and are hung high when used, so they may be the object of sacrifice. The Book of the King of Shu records: "The silkworm bushes of the king of Shu, whose eyes are longitudinal, were first called kings. "The mask of the longitudinal eye may depict a generation of Shu kings."
Image source: Figureworm Creative
Big mask
In addition, Sanxingdui also unearthed a large mask similar to the specific amount of the longitudinal surface, which is similar to the appearance of the Spring Festival Gala, and may also be the object of sacrifice. There is another kind of mask with a width ranging from more than ten centimeters to more than 40 centimeters, with a smaller body, although the eyes are drummed, but they are not vertical, the ears are not outstretched, the width of the mouth is narrowed, and the proportion is no different from ordinary people, some scholars believe that they may also be sacrificed, but they are not the founding monarchs of ancient Shu, but other Shu kings after the silkworm bush.
Image source: Chuanguan News
This year's Spring Festival, Sanxingdui Museum is both
Bronze head-turned kneeling figure, gold mask,
Bronze statue "Ultraman" and other newly excavated cultural relics at sanxingdui sites
All in the open heritage protection and restoration hall "on the new"
Bronze turned his head and sat on his knees. Image source: Sanxingdui Museum
Bronze statue of a bird standing. Image source: Sanxingdui Museum
In the comprehensive hall, it can also meet the needs of everyone looking for tigers
Turquoise bronze tiger, copper tiger shaped vessel, gold leaf tiger ornament, pottery tiger
……
The Year of the Tiger is full of atmosphere!
Next, bronze large masks and other newly excavated artifacts have been unearthed
It will be organized, restored and displayed in the Heritage Conservation and Restoration Hall
Let the audience immerse themselves in the restoration process of the cultural relics
It is understood that the construction of the new museum of the Sanxingdui Museum, which has attracted much attention
Construction will also begin in March
Let's look forward to it
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