Why did the Sanxingdui civilization, which caused the sensational world, suddenly disappear? What are the very unique masks, the strange discs like the steering wheel, used for? What kind of secrets are hidden behind it?
Discoveries of Sanxingdui:
As we all know, ancient China, ancient Babylon, ancient Egypt, and ancient India are recognized as the four major ancient civilizations and ancient countries, and are the birthplace of the origin of human civilization in people's eyes.
We have always been very interested in the origin of human civilization, however, with the development of the times, our exploration of some ancient civilizations has become more and more in-depth.
Originally, we always thought that the birthplace of Chinese civilization was the Yellow River Basin, but until people discovered Sanxingdui, everything changed.
As early as the 1930s, When Yan Daocheng, a farmer in Guanghan Province, was digging a ditch, he accidentally discovered a batch of exquisite jade objects.
Since he was only a poor peasant, since then, this place has become the yan family's way to get rich, and he knows nothing about it, digging up a lot of jade and selling it at a low price.
In 1931, a British missionary bought a relic sold by Yan Daocheng.
After taking them home, he found that these things were not simple, so he asked Ge Weihan, the director of the West China University Museum, to investigate these cultural relics.
In 1934, after obtaining permission, Ge Weihan conducted an archaeology of Sanxingdui, and in just 10 days, more than 600 treasures were found.
Although Yan Daocheng's scalping work is very hidden, the world is not airtight, and it is not long before experts have their eyes on Yan Daocheng.
In order to protect this batch of cultural relics, experts also went to the Yan family many times to persuade them to hand over the cultural relics, but the results were unsuccessful.
Helplessly, experts can only watch the Yan family sell cultural relics.
So what happened next? Let's move on.
Artifacts of Sanxingdui:
What kind of civilization is involved in the mysterious Sanxingdui? What kind of story is hidden behind this?
Thankfully, in 1949, sanxingdui research finally fell to archaeologists in new China, and by 1986, they had conducted a total of three expeditions.
In these several expeditions, people found many treasures, and with the excavation of these cultural relics, an ancient Shu country that had been sleeping for thousands of years also surfaced.
Along with that, there are all sorts of mysteries.
Because the cultural relics unearthed here look very different from our Chinese civilization, but there is more or less a connection between the two, which makes people wonder.
After some investigation and research, archaeologists found that the age of Sanxingdui should be 3000-5000 years ago, when the mainland was in the Summer and Shang periods.
Therefore, many people believe that the Sanxingdui civilization is related to the culture of that time.
But this is only people's speculation, and there is no detailed record in the history books. And, even knowing this, we're still not sure where the origin of the Sanxingdui civilization really is.
If you look at it from the outside alone, these cultural relics may have exchanged with the Chinese civilization, the ancient Indian civilization, the Central and West Asian civilization, and so on.
So what kind of secrets are hidden behind this? What are these dug up things for? Let's move on.
Why did the prosperous Sanxingdui suddenly disappear?
How developed is the mysterious civilization beyond imagination? What kind of secrets are hidden behind this? Why did the prosperous Sanxingdui suddenly disappear?
The bronzes excavated from sanxingdui are all very exquisite, for example, the famous bronze sacred tree, the height alone, reached 3.95 meters;
For example, the same famous bronze Da Li man, the mask alone is 1.38 meters wide, and the entire bronze man is as high as 2.62 meters;
And to say that among these cultural relics, the largest proportion and the most characteristic is definitely those bronze masks, they have thick eyebrows and big eyes, big ears, high nose bridge, and an expression that seems to be smiling and not smiling.
In addition to this, among these artifacts, there are also some treasures made of gold.
For example, a golden scepter excavated from Sanxingdui with a length of 1.43 meters and a net weight of about 500 grams;
Another example is the half-gold mask excavated from Sanxingdui with a height of 28 centimeters and a width of 23 centimeters;
In fact, these can show that the Sanxingdui culture at that time was very prosperous.
So why did such a developed civilization disappear overnight?
In this regard, Wang Wei, chairman of the Chinese Archaeological Society, said that the disappearance of Sanxingdui is still an unsolved mystery, but in the vicinity, the disappearance of the Sanxingdui civilization should have nothing to do with the flood, because no traces of large-scale floods have been found nearby.
In his view, the Sanxingdui civilization may not have disappeared, but it is likely that it moved elsewhere after a period of prosperity.
This unknown civilization, which is extremely technologically advanced and has a thriving economy, may have long been part of The Chinese civilization, but it is still a mystery because there is no detailed and specific written record.
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