The Sanxingdui site, an archaeological discovery that shocked the world, has become known to the world with excavations in recent years. It is located in the territory of Sichuan Province on the mainland. Together with sites such as the Mayan civilization, it is known as the greatest archaeological discovery of mankind in the 20th century.
The Sanxingdui site has unearthed many cultural relics and is well preserved, with high archaeological and research value, and the shape excavated inside it is peculiar and the culture is self-contained.
Since its first discovery,
Sanxingdui has been excavated many times since its initial discovery to the present day, and it has been stopped many times in the middle, so let's see what archaeologists have excavated in Sanxingdui.
As early as 1929, local farmers went down to the field to clean the water wheel and inadvertently found the ruins here. The incident quickly attracted the attention of British missionaries in Guanghan at the time, and the first archaeological excavations of the local museum began in collaboration with a number of archaeologists.
This excavation unearthed a large number of ancient Gui, Bi and other artifacts.
In the early 1960s, the Provincial Museum, together with many universities and many other institutions, formed a joint archaeological team to devote itself to a new round of archaeological excavations of the site. The total area of the ruins is estimated to be 13 square kilometers.
This archaeological excavation officially defined the ruins of Sanxingdui as the ruins of the ancient Shu Kingdom.
In the past thirty years, it has entered the period of large-scale continuous excavation of Sanxingdui, and it is also during this period that a large number of cultural relics have been excavated.
During this period, the archaeological community officially divided the Sanxingdui site into the Sanxingdui culture.
After more than 80 years of excavation work, the current excavation area is only less than three-thousandths of the total area, and the excavation has been terminated several times for various reasons.
Archaeologists have discovered many incredible artifacts during the excavations.
The reason why it is so mysterious and attracts the attention of the world is that its cultural system is different from any culture at present.
Among the excavated artifacts are the sun wheel, the golden scepter, and the portraits of strange characters.
These are very different from the Central Plains civilization, but have many similarities with ancient Egypt, Sumerian and even Maya civilizations.
It is precisely because of these excavated cultural relics that people have generated many speculations about the origin of the Sanxingdui culture. Some people even say that Sanxingdui is a civilization in appearance, and the cultural style is unique, especially the domestic bronze culture is very developed, and the entire city covers a vast area and is huge.
But there is no writing left in the entire civilization system.
The entire civilization also disappeared overnight, not even the remnants and descendants of its own country.
Among the many excavated artifacts, eight bronze trees are very eye-catching, and one of them was restored by archaeologists and is about four meters high.
The upper part of the ancient tree is missing. The complete ancient tree should be about four meters.
The ancient tree is divided into three layers: heaven, man and earth, each layer has three branches, each branch has a different orientation and shape, each branch is divided into two, and there is a sacred bird standing on the branch. A total of nine branches, nine sacred birds.
So what is the origin of this strange ancient tree shape? The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Overseas East Classic, the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the Great Wilderness East Classic are all recorded,
In ancient times, ten golden wu lived in Fusang, and every day one golden wu flew into the air to bring light to the earth, and the remaining nine were lying on the sacred tree.
In fact, the Fuso Sacred Tree is not only recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but also in many ancient books such as "Records of the Ten States of Hainei" and "Taiping Imperial Records".
Compared with the records of the sacred tree in many ancient books, the overall shape of the No. 1 bronze tree excavated from Sanxingdui is the Fuso Sacred Tree.
The nine sacred birds cast on the tree are both the sun god bird Jinwu.
The oldest of the ancient books that record the Fuso Sacred Tree should belong to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and it is currently recognized by the archaeological community that the Classics of Mountains and Seas should be recorded and sorted out by many people at different time periods, and the time is about the beginning of the Warring States Period.
The Warring States period dates back more than 2,000 years. The Sanxingdui site is 3,000 to 5,000 years away from this year.
That is to say, the first sacred tree will not be cast with reference to any ancient books.
Since the No. 1 ancient tree did not refer to any ancient books, where did its unique and strange shape come from, just imagine that 5,000 years ago was just the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors of the Mainland, and the story of the Houyi Shooting Sun, which is well known to the Chinese people, also happened to occur in this era, so think about whether the ancient Shu people just witnessed this event and then cast the bronze ancient tree according to what they saw?
It is difficult for humans to create things through their own imagination that they have not seen, just as humans would not have thought that if they had not seen a bird, they would not have thought that living things could fly with wings. Myths and legends are often a kind of oral transmission of history before the advent of words.
In addition to the bronze ancient trees, the various human shapes excavated in the site are also amazing. Whether it is a bronze mask or a bronze figure, its shape is very strange, and even it does not match all the races in the world today.
A pair of eyeballs protruding from the face and extending outward to squint toward the sky, with an eagle hook-shaped nose and large ears that extend diagonally backwards.
The most bizarre thing is the strange smile on the shape, and the corners of its mouth are cracked all the way to the root of the ear.
Why did the ancient Shu people create such a strange shape of the portrait in large quantities, and would this be the true appearance of the ancient Shu people themselves? Or the image of the gods in the mythical age in which they lived.
In addition, a bronze sun-shaped disk was found during the excavation, saying that the sun was not accurate enough.
More precisely, the overall shape of the bronze is more like the steering wheel of today's cars,
This discovery is tantamount to adding a veil of mystery to the Sanxingdui civilization.
In fact, in the excavations of Civilizations such as Egypt and the Maya, murals such as helicopters and submarines have also been seen in murals that are beyond that era.
A large number of bronze products were found at the excavation site, from small bronze ornaments to bronze ancient trees and bronze figures.
The amount of bronze used can be described as very large, and there is no copper mine near Sanxingdui, so how did such a huge amount of copper come from?
This in itself is a mystery.
With the continuous excavation of the Sanxingdui site and the continuous increase in the number of excavated cultural relics, it seems that there is no breakthrough in our understanding of the ancient Shu kingdom, but various mysteries and puzzles have become more and more numerous.
Did this civilization, according to us, 5,000 years ago really witness the occurrence of our ancient myths? Or maybe they were a group of alien immigrants who left Earth en masse for some reason, so the entire Sanxingdui cultural system would be so unique and can disappear overnight without a trace.
It is believed that as the area of excavations continues to increase, various fragments of this strange culture will be gradually pieced together.
We venture to speculate that if the mysteries found in the excavations can be fully solved, then the true face of Sanxingdui will be revealed to the world.