The ancient thousand-year-old civilization is mysterious because there is no written record, and most of the cultural relics unearthed are incredible, causing countless speculations and spatial reverie, leaving many unsolved mysteries to the world.
For example, Sichuan is not near the sea, but a large number of sea shells have been unearthed; the second sacrifice pit has unearthed 67 pieces of complete ivory but it is difficult to imagine its use; and a variety of other strangely shaped and exaggerated bronzes, such as bronze sacred trees, bronze statues, steering wheel-like sun shapes, and huge masks.
The two major exhibition halls currently opened by sanxingdui museum are the "Three Stars with the Moon - Splendid Ancient Shu Civilization" Comprehensive Hall, the "Three Stars Yongyao - Mysterious Bronze Kingdom" Bronze Museum, and the treasures of the town hall are even more breathtaking: the sacrifice of the mountain Tu Yuzhang, the bronze "Dali People", the golden staff, the bronze sacred tree, the longitudinal human mask, the bronze altar,
The time of the "Matsuri Mountain Tuyuzhang" is about 1600-1200 BC.
The two sides of the jade zhang are inscribed with the same pattern, and each group of ornaments includes a mountain tomb, a tooth zhang, a cloud thunder pattern, and two rows of worship-like figures, which is speculated to represent a solemn sacrifice scene.
This is the largest piece of gold in China during the Xia Shang Zhou Period, with a length of 142 cm, a diameter of 2.3 cm, a weight of nearly 500 grams, and a gold content of more than 90%. Scholars believe that the golden wand marks royal power, theocracy, and wealth monopoly.
[Bronze Sacred Tree] is the largest bronze artifact in the world of the same period, and is known as the "Heavenly God Tree". Regarding the origin of the sacred tree, it is generally believed that it is related to the myth of the ten suns, and it is also related to the ancient legends of "Fuso", "Jianmu" and "Wakaki".
【Bronze Longitudinal Mask】 Is the world's earliest and largest bronze mask, which is 1.38 meters wide and 0.645 meters high.
The bronze altar is divided into four layers, the bottom floor is the beast-shaped seat, the second layer has four large erect people; the third layer is the mountain; the top layer is the most mysterious, like a square box, which is hollowed out with five ancient Shu people.
The bronze Da Li Ren, who appeared in the finale, is located in the general hall, and scholars tend to believe that he is the most authoritative leader of the Sanxingdui Ancient Shu Kingdom that integrates the identities of gods, witches and kings, and is a symbol of the highest power of theocracy and kingship.
The bronze statue is 1.8 meters high, 2.62 meters high, weighs about 180 kilograms, this is the highest and most complete bronze statue in existence, known as the "king of the world's bronze statues", the time of 1600-1200 BC.
On the square platform under its feet, it is believed that it is an altar or a sacred mountain, which seems to confirm the interpretation of its identity as a "wizard and god". But who it is and what kind of identity it represents remains to be determined.
At present, there are two major opinions in the academic community, one is that it is the image of a generation of Shu kings, who is both a political king and the leader of the group of witches; the other is that it is the image of the ancient Shu theocratic political leader.
But whichever opinion it is, this shows that the identity of this "Great Li Ren" is very unsimple, not only noble, but also divine.
It's just that its appearance is extremely peculiar, far from the Central Plains people. The eyes are prominent, the ears are waving, the nose is high, the lips are slender, the hands are hollow, and the arms are slightly wrapped in a circle shape on the chest.
In this regard, netizens have speculated that what exactly is the gesture of this big portrait expressing? Does the hand ring grip hollow mean that it is holding something? So what would it be?
Some people think that it holds ivory in its hand because a large number of intact ivory was unearthed from the Sanxingdui No. 2 Sacrifice Pit; some believe that it is a golden staff, because of the lofty status of the Dali people, which has an absolute symbol of power;
Some experts think that it is a jade, and both hands hold the jade, and there is a saying that it is empty-handed and does not take anything, which is a posture presentation, or a language transmission, or a representation of meaning.
But whatever it is, this bronze statue is one of the most worthy of in-depth study and consideration in the entire Sanxingdui Museum. If it solves all the unsolved mysteries on it, then other mysteries will naturally be solved.
Although we still have countless confusions in the face of the Sanxingdui civilization, these constantly new cultural relics have re-acquainted with the Bashu culture and changed the perspective of the historical community.
It not only pushes the history of the ancient Shu kingdom forward to 5,000 years ago, but also proves that the Yangtze River Basin is the birthplace of the Chinese nation like the Yellow River Basin, and the Sanxingdui civilization at that time was highly developed.