Sanxingdui ancient ruins have a history of 5,000 to 3,000 years, and are the largest, longest-lasting and most culturally rich ancient city, ancient country and ancient Shu cultural sites found in the southwest region so far.
The cultural relics excavated from the Sanxingdui site are valuable cultural heritage of mankind. Among the ancient Shu secret treasures, there are bronze Da Liren with a height of 2.62 meters, a bronze mask with a width of 1.38 meters, and a bronze sacred tree with a height of 3.95 meters, which are unique and unique gods. The gold ware represented by the golden staff and the jade ware represented by the edge zhang full of patterns are also rare treasures that have never been seen before.
So far, archaeologists have found multiple sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui site. Among them, the artifacts buried in the No. 1 sacrifice pit and the No. 2 sacrifice pit have traces of burning and destruction, some burned, blackened, cracked, deformed, foamed or even melted, and some damaged, broken or even broken into several pieces and scattered in different positions in the pit.
Bronze group portraits, bronze sacred trees, bronze sun-shaped vessels, bronze eye-shaped vessels, golden staffs, gold masks and other bronzes, gold objects, jade tools unearthed from the two sacrificial pits have peculiar shapes, extremely high specifications, and exquisite productions. These cultural relics fully reflect the highly developed bronze casting technology, gold smelting and processing technology, jade processing technology, and unique aesthetic awareness and religious beliefs of the Shang Dynasty Shu State.
At the same time, on May 28, 2021, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology announced that sanxingdui newly discovered 6 "sacrifice pits" excavations have been very fruitful, as of now, Sanxingdui newly discovered 6 "sacrifice pits" have unearthed more than 1,000 important cultural relics such as silk, exquisite ivory miniature carvings, and mysterious wooden boxes coated with cinnabar.
There is a very unique phenomenon, the gods unearthed from the sacrificial pit have traces of being broken, which makes it difficult for many people to understand.
Xiaobian believes that in order to solve this mystery, it is first necessary to clarify why the "Sanxingdui" people built sacrifice pits.
There were no bones or urns in the sacrificial pit, certainly not tombs. Then, the biggest possibility of the Sanxingdui sacrifice pit is the remnants of the two ancestral worship branches.
According to many Yi (yí) ancient texts, the Guyi people held a large ancestral worship branch every seven to nine generations. After the branches, intermarriage can be made between the branches. After the ancestor worship branch, the chiefs of each branch can lead the family tribe to migrate to other places from afar, each seeking and opening up their own living area and space.
After migrating into the new territory, they joined forces with the indigenous Guyi people to re-create their new tribal kingdom. Such as the Kingdom of Yelang, the Kingdom of Dian, the Kingdom of Ailao, and the State of Nanzhao.
Each time the ancestor worship branch, it is necessary to worship for nine days and nine nights, and the sacrifice ceremony includes three major items: sacrifice to the heavens, sacrifices to the earth, and ancestor worship. Hundreds of people from each kingdom came to worship the ancestral spirits. Each time it was grand and bustling. After each ancestral branch, all the items shared by the family are destroyed and buried, symbolizing the end of an old era and the beginning of another new era.
Today, the Yi are one of the sixth largest ethnic minorities in China, mainly distributed between the plateau and coastal hills of the four provinces (regions) of Yunnan, Sichuan, Qian, and Guizhou.
Combined with the above-mentioned Yi (yí) ancient texts, we can think of it this way that the Sanxingdui site is a pagoda where three ancient Yi people sacrificed heaven, earth and ancestors. A sacrificial pit is a burial pit for artifacts after sacrifice.
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