In 1986, Chinese archaeologists found the Sanxingdui site that shocked the world in a wasteland in Sichuan, but unlike the cultural relics unearthed in the past, the cultural relics in this Sanxingdui site were strangely shaped and rough, and even had a huge steering wheel-like cultural relics.
Could this artifact be the steering wheel on an alien spaceship? So where did the aliens go after leaving the steering wheel? This issue of the Secret History of Kyushu will take you to explore the mysterious Sanxingdui ruins.
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In 1986, when the new era began to prevail, it was in this context that archaeologists made a major discovery in a wasteland in Sichuan, the "country of heavenly capital", in the heat of midsummer, when a local brick and tile factory worker accidentally found a small jade medallion from the wasteland while resting.
Looking at the jade medal in his hand, the worker knew that it was an antique, and thinking that he had made a windfall, he couldn't help but wonder if there would be anything more valuable nearby. So the worker began to dig, but he did not expect that he had discovered a shocking secret.
Soon after the workers began to excavate, he found a large number of gold, jade, ivory and bronze from this wasteland, which made the workers panic, he just wanted to find some antiques to sell for money, who could have imagined that he could find so many things, obviously the workers also knew that stealing cultural relics was illegal, and secretly taking away a piece that others might not find.
Taking away so much will definitely be seen by others, but you can't just throw things here, so the workers contacted the local cultural relics management department.
After understanding the situation, the local cultural relics management department immediately set off to this wasteland, looking at the cultural relics scattered on the wasteland, the archaeologists were full of excitement, this should be a site.
There must be more cultural relics buried underground, so archaeologists immediately launched excavations, and sure enough, with the deepening of archaeological excavations, more and more cultural relics appeared in front of everyone, but unfortunately, these excavated cultural relics are incomplete, and even these cultural relics have been burned traces, who set fire to these precious cultural relics?
Incinerated artifacts
Archaeologists are puzzled, can only continue the excavation work with doubts, at this time a gold piece attracted people's attention, the gold piece has been mutilated, but the carved pattern on it is very strange, archaeologists have never seen such a strange pattern.
So they decided to send the gold piece to the research room for restoration, and after the efforts of the research room staff, the full picture of the gold piece was finally presented to everyone: according to the shape of the gold piece, it should be an outer wrapping of a wooden stick or bamboo, and with the passage of time, the contents of the gold sheet wrapped in it have decayed and disappeared, but the gold piece has been preserved.
Archaeologists speculate that this should have been a sacred staff used by ancient people to sacrifice, and after restoration, everyone can see exactly what the pattern carved on the gold tablet is: a human face statue with a crown on the dan phoenix eye, the statue's ears are also wearing huge earrings, in addition to the statues of fish and birds, what do these statues mean?
Why is the sudden carving on the gold tablet so different from the style of the cultural relics previously unearthed on the mainland? Could it be that the relics of the Sanxingdui site are not the products of the ancient Chinese people, but come from aliens?
After a long period of excavation, archaeologists finally let all the cultural relics of the Sanxingdui site see the light of day, and after the hard work of the restoration personnel, these cultural relics finally restored their original appearance, but the shape of these cultural relics made archaeologists fall into deep doubts.
Most of the artifacts unearthed in Sanxingdui cultural relics are bronze masks, and there has never been a record of bronze masks as sacrifices in mainland history, which is a bit like the Egyptian style, and these masks have deep eye sockets and high noses, which do not look similar to small Chinese.
Before the scientists had time to consider these questions, a huge bronze statue of a man attracted their attention, archaeologists have determined that the artifacts of the Sanxingdui site are from 3,000 years ago, and the food and clothing of the people 3,000 years ago is still a problem, where do they have the strength to cast such a huge statue?
Only to see that this statue is about 1 meter 7, the hands in front of the body in a strange posture, as if holding something in the hands, is it the ancient sacrifice commonly used jade? After all, archaeologists have confirmed that all the artifacts unearthed at the Sanxingdui site are sacrificial items.
What the hell is it?
But considering that the jade is the shape of the outer square and the inner circle, it is obviously not very consistent with the shape of the bronze statue's hand, and the thing held by the statue should be round, at this time, thinking of the gold piece unearthed before, is the thing held in the statue's hand a scepter?
No, no, the rod is straight, but the portrait's hands are not in the same straight line at all, which means that what the portrait holds in its hands should be curved. Is it ivory? The shape is consistent, but the logic is not the same, the weight of an ivory is about forty or fifty pounds, it is impossible for a person to carry out sacrifice activities with such a heavy thing, what is the thing that the person is holding in his hand?
At this time, an archaeologist was inspired by the branches held by other small figures: Could this bronze statue hold a branch in its hand? Because a huge bronze statue of the sacred tree was also unearthed in the Sanxingdui site, this shows that the people at that time had a worship of trees, and it seems not so strange to use branches as sacrificial supplies.
The mystery of the bronze statue is solved, and the next thing that enters the eyes of archaeologists is a shape that resembles a steering wheel, considering that the cultural relics unearthed in the Sanxingdui site are very different from our previous cultural relics, at this time, some experts speculate that these cultural relics will not be the product of extraterrestrial civilizations?
Could this steering wheel-like thing be the steering wheel that aliens use to fly spaceships? No, no, this artifact has nothing to do with aliens, because this artifact is a variant of the sun, the ancient agricultural civilization flourished, and the people who depended on the sky to eat had an extraordinary belief in the sun, and this steering wheel-like artifact represented the image of the sun.
Since the Sanxingdui site has nothing to do with aliens, what is the influence of these strange cultural relics? Archaeologists have yet to find an answer to this question, but it is certain that the Sanxingdui site is a product of Chinese civilization.
Because many of the ceremonial vessels unearthed from here have many similarities with the traditional ceremonial vessels we have unearthed before, it is just that the cultural relics style of Sanxingdui is more rugged. In addition, there is another discovery that can also support this speculation: many jade artifacts have been unearthed in the Sanxingdui site, and Chinese's love for jade has always been carved into the bones.
Compared with the vulgarity of gold and silver, the ancient Chinese nobles felt that jade was more representative of the purity and grace in their bones, and it is clear that Sanxingdui also inherited this idea, expressed equal love for jade, and even used many exquisitely shaped jade as sacrifices.
Many cultural relics unearthed from Sanxingdui can be seen to have traces of human destruction, who is willing to destroy these precious cultural relics? Were the natives or outsiders who created the Sanxingdui civilization? Why did the Sanxingdui civilization disappear in history in a flash in the pan? What caused the demise of the Sanxingdui civilization?
Above the Sanxingdui site are numerous mysteries that require archaeologists to find answers through their efforts.
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