For the modern society with abundant materials, this saying seems to have long lost its meaning, most families have long solved the problem of food and clothing, but in ancient times, this sentence is the supreme truth, people in ancient times all in order to survive, so what did the ancient Shu people eat? Some information can be obtained from the artifacts excavated from Sanxingdui. Let me reveal the secrets to you.
The ancient Shu culture represented by Sanxingdui has a very long history, "silkworm bushes and fish, the founding of the country is dazed!" Erlai is forty-eight thousand years old, and is not inhabited by Qin Saitong. "The founding monarch of the ancient Shu kingdom, Silkworm Bush, was very great, and he established his own regime in a vast wilderness. Although Li Bai's "Shu Dao Difficulty" is magnificent, there is indeed something wrong with it, ancient Shu and Qin Sai are not uninhabited, on the contrary, in the process of the gradual prosperity of ancient Shu civilization, it has also absorbed many customs of Yin merchants, and the sacrificial culture is one of the examples.
Even if we know a lot about the ancient Shu civilization, but the Sanxingdui culture still has its uniqueness, first of all, the geographical environment is relatively closed, although the Sanxingdui civilization has indeed been affected by other civilizations, but due to the natural danger barrier, the outside civilization does not understand the Sanxingdui culture in the land of Bashu, which makes it very difficult for us to study it, although the cultural relics excavated from the sites of other civilizations may also be strange, but we can always find some similar cultural relics to compare, the cultural relics of the Sanxingdui site are self-contained, There are very limited things to refer to.
This reason has led to a phenomenon: for other sites, our archaeologists can get some valuable information by carefully studying, but the Sanxingdui site is often more and more clueless the more they study. For example, in the archaeology of other cultural sites, from some food fossils, we can learn about the diet structure of the ancients, for example, in the Magnetic Hill site, archaeologists on the mainland found as many as 88 cellars, which contain various grain grains mainly millet and millet, totaling 50,000 kilograms, combined with research we can know that in the Magnetic Mountain area more than 7,000 years ago, the ancestors have learned to grow crops.
Ancient sites unearthed wheat grain fossils, we can know that the ancients had flour to eat, unearthed pig bones, sheep bones and dog bone fossils, we understand that the ancients had pork, mutton and dog meat to eat. However, the Sanxingdui site is very strange, there are no fossils or remains related to grain found here, but carved products of various materials have been unearthed, and these seemingly peculiar crafts can also reveal the "recipes" of the Sanxingdui people.
Sanxingdui No. 2 sacrifice pit, once unearthed a "ivory piglet", because of the appearance and "Angry Birds" in the pig image, it immediately attracted the attention of the public, but the excavation of this cultural relic also has its own unique significance, Sanxingdui people have been able to carve ivory into the image of the piglet, on the one hand, it shows that they are skilled in carving, on the other hand, they also show that they know pigs very well, so from here we can guess that there should be pork in the recipes of the Sanxingdui people.
Although the ivory products are very exquisite, but to say that the most representative cultural relics in the Sanxingdui site, it must be bronze, whether it is the famous bronze Da Liren, or the mysterious bronze man mask, or the exquisite bronze sacred tree, they all show modern people the splendid bronze culture of Sanxingdui. Among the many Sanxingdui bronze cultural relics, there is a bronze statue of the head of the osprey, which also inspired archaeologists: the ancient Shu people already knew about the existence of the osprey, so they should have tasted the deliciousness of fish meat, right?
Among the types of cultural relics unearthed at Sanxingdui, there is one type of cultural relics that has been very controversial, and they are jade. A large number of jade artifacts have been excavated from the Sanxingdui site, but most of them are used as ceremonial tools for sacrifice, and the Sanxingdui three-dimensional jade soldier array in the folk collection, although the shape is exquisite and the system is magnificent, the official still gives it the identification of "imitations". But the jade chicken unearthed in the Sanxingdui site is very interesting, the carver is skilled, and the rooster is vividly given to a piece of jade, making it a unique craft, and we also learned from it that the Sanxingdui people also have chicken to eat!
The next thing to introduce is a gold handicraft, Sanxingdui people used the excellent ductility of gold to hammer this "golden dog". But this artifact is really abstract, and people can't help but wonder what its prototype is, can it show that Sanxingdui people will eat dog meat? It is not impossible for us to believe that the Sanxingdui people at that time had tamed some wolves and made them loyal and cute dogs.
Although the Sanxingdui people eat pork, fish, chicken and dog meat is only our guess, there is no doubt that the Sanxingdui culture is a civilization that was once very brilliant, and this great civilization must be based on relatively advanced agriculture and animal husbandry, without enough food, people can not create splendid buildings and crafts. I hope that archaeologists will continue to work hard to find more Sanxingdui cultural relics as soon as possible and uncover the secrets of sanxingdui recipes for us.
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Jin Xiaozhou
Source: 1. "Complete Record of Cultural Relics Unearthed in Sanxingdui", Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology; published by Tiandi Publishing House