【Archaeological Findings】Sanxingdui bronze mask debuted at the Spring Festival Gala at a glance for three thousand years

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Sanxingdui is located in Sichuan Province, with a cultural heritage of 3,000 to 5,000 years, the site of the ancient Shu culture. On the evening of January 31, Zhang Guoli and Ran Honglin, director of the Sanxingdui Archaeological Research Institute, displayed the bronze masks excavated from the Sanxingdui site on the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger, reproducing the ancient Shu style of "sleeping for thousands of years and waking up to shock the world" in front of hundreds of millions of viewers.

According to guangming network reports, the bronze mask is 131cm wide, 71cm high, 66cm deep, weighing 131 kilograms, is currently known to be the largest and well-preserved large bronze mask excavated from the Sanxingdui site.

Its wide forehead, angular edges, smooth eyebrows, eyes, lips and other lines, all protruding from the face, thick and long eyebrows as a raised shape, the two sides of the mask up and down and in the front of the forehead in the square perforation, may be used for fixed purposes.

It is worth mentioning that the bronze mask is a typical artifact of the Sanxingdui culture, which has a history of more than 3,000 years, reflecting the understanding and thinking of the ancient Shu ancestors on the natural things and the world of gods and gods.

In this regard, some netizens sighed: "A thousand years at a glance" "This is the cultural inheritance and romance exclusive to Chinese"

According to reports, on June 23, 2021, the bronze large mask was extracted from the pit. Archaeologists and cultural relics conservators analyzed and studied the casting process of the bronze mask and believed that its production was first cast and formed, cast by the face, the back of the cheek, the eyes, the ears and other parts, and then combined into one, and the right eye of the large mask was also found to have silk fabric residues of warp and weft tissues.

Sanxingdui Ancient Ruins is the largest, longest-lasting and most culturally rich ancient city, ancient country and ancient Shu cultural site found in southwest China so far.