Cover news reporter Zeng Jie
On the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger, the bronze masks excavated from the Sanxingdui site were released heavily, quickly dominating the screen, attracting many audiences to Sichuan to explore the ancient Shu civilization. What other "blind boxes" are about to open at the Sanxingdui site? At 21:00 on February 6 (the sixth day of the Lunar New Year), the second season of "Ten Thousand Miles of Walking Alone" will be broadcast on Zhejiang Satellite TV, and the "Wanli Youth League" Shan Jixiang, Zhou Yun, Xiao Yang and Niu Junfeng will walk into the Sanxingdui and Jinsha ruins to visit the ancient and mysterious ancient Shu civilization shrouded in fog.
Open the archeological big "blind box"
As one of the ancient cultural sites with the widest distribution range and richest cultural connotation discovered in southwest China so far, the cultural relics unearthed by Sanxingdui are not only extremely valuable human cultural heritage, but also one of the cultural relics with the most historical, scientific, cultural, artistic and social value in China.
In this episode, the "Wanli Youth League" will claim a "mystery to be solved" in many "Sanxingdui Rhapsody" and divide into two groups to find the answer. Shan Jixiang and Xiao Yang met lei yu, director of sanxingdui workstation and director of Sanxingdui museum, at Sanxingdui museum; Niu Junfeng and Zhou Yun learned the story behind Sanxingdui cultural relics under the leadership of Ran Honglin, director of sanxingdui archaeological research institute of Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Xu Danyang, assistant librarian of Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.
In the early Bronze Age, large combination bronzes prevailed in Sanxingdui. Bronze sacred trees, altars and newly discovered kneeling figures in Pit No. 3 are all unique to Sanxingdui. Among them, the bronze longitudinal mask has triggered extensive discussion of "aliens" because of its peculiar shape, some people believe that this mask symbolizes the first generation of Shu king silkworm bushes, and some people think that this artifact shows the ancient Shu people's desire to "clairvoyance and tailwind ears" at that time. The facial features of different bronze heads are actually almost the same, the biggest difference between them is the hairstyle behind the head, what is the difference between the two different hairstyles of braided hair and the hairstyle? Why does the Jinsha site only have braided bronze statues?
In the program, Shan Jixiang and Xiao Yang will also go deep into the archaeological cabin of Sanxingdui No. 8 Pit. It is like a large archaeological "blind box", what strange artifacts have been unearthed? And almost every pit is a layer of ashes, a layer of ivory, and then a layer of bronze components buried in the form, let people can't help but ask: Why did the ancestors of Sanxingdui in the ancient Shu Kingdom adopt this method?
Exploring the Archaeological "Black Technology"
To a certain extent, Sanxingdui archaeology is a microcosm of China's century-old archaeological development process, representing the highest level of Chinese archaeology in the new era. In this program, the "Wanli Youth Group" will go deep into the Sanxingdui Museum Restoration Hall and sanxingdui Archaeological Greenhouse to reveal the daily work of archaeologists and the multidisciplinary combination of scientific and technological archaeology lineup.
In 1986, the excavation of the No. 1 and No. 2 sacrifice pits, because it was a rescue excavation, was limited by the conditions at that time, and archaeologists did not have enough technical means to collect, obtain and protect the complete information of the excavated cultural relics, which became a regret left by that era. However, with the passage of time, the new round of Sanxingdui archaeology since September 2020 has used the most cutting-edge scientific and technological means, and from the very beginning, it has established an archaeological policy of multi-disciplinary, multi-unit complementary advantages and joint research, with as many as 34 institutions participating in cooperation, and the process of preparing and demonstrating before and after is nearly a year. In addition, how did the archaeological site combine excavation and conservation at the same time? Protective clothing, temporary laboratories, liftable hanging workbench, what "black technology" has been used in the archaeological excavations of Sanxingdui in the new century?
With the development of disciplines, the advancement of technology, and the improvement of mechanisms, young people studying archaeology today have more opportunities to show their skills in the field and apply what they have learned. The addition of post-90s archaeologists has also allowed many cultural relics to have interesting "flower names", such as "Big Ear Tutu" and "Zhuge Liang", which excavated cultural relics they refer to?
In the program, there is also the Shu embroidered "Sun God Bird" pattern returning from space that has reappeared after many years, and the guests discussed the significance of the "Sun God Bird", a Symbol of Chinese Cultural Heritage, to Chengdu. And what is the origin of Shan Jixiang and the "Sun God Bird"? How does he understand the cultural connotations behind the "Sun God Bird"?
In order to explore the connection between the ancient Shu civilization and the Chinese civilization, Gao Menghe, a professor of archaeology at Fudan University, also set up a set of "true and false Sanxingdui cultural relics" multiple choice questions. Can the "Wanli Youth League", which has a deep understanding of Sanxingdui's cultural relics, choose the correct answer? At 21:00 on the evening of February 6, the second season of "Ten Thousand Miles of Single Riding" will explore the story behind the mysterious cultural relics of Sanxingdui, connect the stars of the ancient Shu civilization, understand the history of the Chinese civilization galaxy, and quickly move the small bench to sit and other good dramas.