Sanxingdui bronze large mask
Debuted at the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger
Arouse the attention of the whole people
Netizens shouted
"When will the Sanxingdui bronze mask come home?"
"When will I be able to see you?"
Today, the Sanxingdui bronze mask "Homecoming", which was unveiled on the spring evening, was officially exhibited for the first time in the Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Hall of the Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum, sending the Lantern Festival exhibition "Easter Eggs" to the majority of tourists.
The large bronze mask that appeared at the Spring Festival Gala of the Central Radio and Television Station in the Year of the Tiger is 131 cm wide, 71 cm high, 66 cm deep, and weighs 131 pounds, which is the largest bronze mask with the most complete shape, the largest volume and the best preservation excavated from the Sanxingdui site.
The large bronze mask was unearthed in Sanxingdui No. 3 sacrifice pit, buried in the south-central part of the pit, the mask face down, on which it was stacked with ivory, after more than three months of careful cleaning. On June 23, 2021, he passed away under the careful care of archaeologists.
In addition, the right eyebrow, right eyeball, and right corner of the bronze mask were found with silk textile residues of warp and weft organization, and the cultural security personnel analyzed that the combination of silk and mask with the function of "heaven and theosophy" showed the meaning of sacred sacrifice.
In November 2021, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, which is responsible for the archaeological excavation of the Sanxingdui Sacrifice Area, received a call from the CCTV Spring Festival Gala program group, hoping to invite the archaeologists of Sanxingdui to the stage of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, tell the story of the archaeological excavation of Sanxingdui that exploded throughout the year, and bring a typical cultural relic for on-site release. Finally, I picked the large bronze mask.
In order to ensure the absolute safety of the bronze mask displayed on the CCTV Spring Evening and back and forth, under the careful organization and guidance of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Sichuan organized relevant cultural and cultural institutions to form a special work class, carefully formulated a cultural relics safety guarantee plan, and carefully implemented cultural relics cleaning, packaging, transportation, unloading, exhibition, guard, protection and other work.
In order to transport the bronze mask safely to Beijing and then return home safely, the cultural and cultural institutions entrusted institutions with professional qualifications and rich experience in the packaging and transportation of international and domestic cultural relics to undertake the packaging, transportation and exhibition operations of cultural relics. According to the requirements of various indicators such as the shape, size, shockproof, temperature and humidity of cultural relics, tailor-made suitable special packaging and transportation boxes for cultural relics, and use professional cultural relics transport vehicles with constant temperature and humidity for cultural relics transportation.
Guanghan is more than 2,000 kilometers away from Beijing. In order to ensure the safety of cultural relics, the transportation process, routes and security of cultural relics are strictly operated in accordance with the norms to ensure that nothing goes wrong. The personnel of the cultural relics escort company are transported during the day and stay overnight at the museum along the line at night. It took 3 days and 2 nights.
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On February 14, the bronze mask was transported back to the Sanxingdui Museum and completed the delivery. On February 15, the large bronze mask after "returning home" was exhibited in the Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Hall of Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum.
In order to allow the bronze mask to meet the public, sanxingdui museum has customized a large display cabinet of 208cm185cm 110cm and weighing 500 kg for the bronze mask. In order to make the public see more clearly, a durable, low-reflection double-laminated glass was also used.
The first exhibition attracted many tourists to stop and watch. Many tourists said that this large bronze surface that had been on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala was exquisitely crafted and the face size was very large, which was indeed rare in the cultural relics excavated from the Sanxingdui site, which reflected the advanced technology level at that time. On the day of the Lantern Festival, as one of the first tourists to see the cultural relics up close, I felt very lucky and won a good lottery.
Reporter | Wei Zhang Edited | Xiao Xi
Editor-in-charge | Wang Qiao, deputy editor-in-chief on duty, | Karasawa