Most of the masses attracted by this kind of topic will eat two bites of melon and run away, and the real academic results will most likely not be seen. At this time, there will be artificial rumors with ulterior motives, such as alien civilizations, and the melon-eating masses do not seek to understand much, but only believe what they believe, and appear to have a lot of insights. Xiao Bai, who did not understand it, felt as if it was very reasonable to follow the letter. In the end things went astray. It is more difficult to restore the truth than to popularize science for people who know nothing.
Today, through the comparison of a large number of bronzes and jade, I will let you look at the relationship between Sanxingdui and the Central Plains and the cultural relics of the same period in the south, and see if Sanxingdui is a celestial heap. The bronzes of that era were like the solid wood furniture of today, which was a symbol of status and status, and the silkworms in the Shu kingdom also had gold, and it was normal to hire several bronze craftsmen to cast several ornaments to fill the façade. It's just that the local level of civilization is low, unlike the Central Plains bronzes carved with some words, may also always lose battles, there is nothing to commemorate, or the Central Plains people when they fight over, there is nothing to grab except gold, give a few bronzes as examples, let them make and pay tribute, they made a lot, encountered the Central Plains Shang Zhou alternate, no one came to take, the locals were happy to burn things and bury.
Let's first look at Sanxingdui's most famous cultural relics, bronze masks and bronze Dali people. Gilded bronze mask
Da Li Ren Sanxingdui No. 2 Sacrifice Pit Sanxingdui Site Museum
Let's take a look at the various stone components excavated from the Shi'an site in Shaanxi in the past two years. Stone carvings of the divine face Shi'a culture (4000-4300 years ago) Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology
Double-faced stone carvings excavated from the Shi'an site of Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute
Like? Is the stone ridge also built by aliens? Again.
Bronze Fang Zun, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology
These two pieces are typical of the Shang Dynasty Zhongyuan Fangzun, paying attention to the size of the neck of the beast's head. Let's take a look at the Fang Zun of Sanxingdui
Coincidentally, before sanxingdui seems to have no fangzun, at least there is no exhibition, but this time in the third sacrifice pit just unearthed fangzun, although it has not yet completed the extraction, we can see that the difference between him and other fangzun is that the fangzun of Sanxingdui is a square round mouth, while the other fangzun is a square mouth square.
Attention is focused on the head of the beast in the neck. Not only in Sanxingdui, but also in the south of the Yangtze River, the size of the statues unearthed is generally larger than that of the Central Plains, and the heads of the beasts are also flatter and larger. And the beast head in the Central Plains is more like a circular carving, while the beast head in the southern bronze is more like a relief.
Comparing Sanxingdui with Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan the same instrument type, size, ornamentation, very similar to Sanxingdui is 950 kilometers away from Jingzhou, 1200 kilometers away from Changsha, and 1500 kilometers away from Nanchang. I said they were made by these four provinces separately and they had no contact with each other, do you believe it?
Compared with the Central Plains, the unearthed ones are like this:
Animal face pattern copper dragon early Shang Dynasty Zhengzhou Baijiazhuang unearthed Henan Museum If the turtle pattern on the neck is determined to be the text "黾", it will be the earliest bronze inscription found in mainland archaeology
Regardless of the ornamentation, proportions, and shapes, does it feel more comfortable and more coordinated to look at? This gap is precisely the process of imitation. Imitation must be from unlike to like, from rough to fine, from simple imitation to its own style.
It looks pretty much the same, but this one is at least 300 to 400 years older than Sanxingdui.
So you say that Sanxingdui is not an alien or even extraterrestrial civilization? Is he mysterious?
The Dragon and Tiger Pattern Zun is also not a Central Plains artifact, and he came out of the water (yes, fished up) in Funan County, Anhui Province. Sanxingdui is 1400 km away. Among them, the tiger devouring human pattern also appears on the national heavy weapon Simu Pengding. And caused a long discussion.
However, the two forms of expression are too different. The tigers of Simu Pengding are more abstract, and the dragon and tiger stripes unearthed in Sanxingdui and Funan are relatively more realistic. In addition, a pair of tiger cannibals have been unearthed in Hunan, which are now in the Collection of the Whole House Museum in Japan and the Municipal Museum of Oriental Art in Paris, France. Tiger 卣 Hunan Ningxiang unearthed Japan Izumiya Bokokan
In Jiangxi Xingan Oceania, there is a huge flat foot. It is several times larger than the similar flat foot in the Central Plains. The shape of the tiger ear on it is closer to that of Sanxingdui and the Anhui Dragon and Tiger Pattern. The name is Fuhu Ear Tiger Flat Foot Bronze Ding, which is currently in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum. And the image of this kind of ornamental ear decorated with standing birds, standing tigers, and standing deer is a typical southern feature.
Such standing bird ears also appear in Sanxingdui.
We have no way of knowing what kind of artifact this standing bird's ear is on, its height of 34 centimeters, and the size of the artifact must be extraordinary. However, from the shape, we can still see that his style is similar to that of Jiangxi Li Bird Ear. The Shaanxi History Museum has a phoenix pillar with two standing birds on it.
Although fengzhu axe was excavated from the tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty, looking at its ornamental characteristics, especially the animal head of the handle part, is it similar to the southern zun and the skull introduced earlier? Sichuan and Shaanxi are bordered again. It is likely that it flowed into Shaanxi from the Sichuan region. Maybe it's communication, maybe it's a giveaway, maybe it's a tomb robbery, maybe it's a booty, we don't know it today.
There is a similar axe in the Izumiya Hirokokan in Japan, and the site of excavation is ominous. The ornamental style is more like a Central Plains artifact. The same is Izumiya Hirokokan (it's all him!). There is also an old drum hidden in the Yuanmingyuan. There are also two standing birds on the drum. Mr. Li Xueqin believes that it should be unearthed in Hunan.
In summary, there are several pieces of bronze, except for the Japanese phoenix pillar, almost all of the others with the image of a standing bird have been excavated in the south. Standing birds also appear in large numbers on the shoulders of zun and miao, which were introduced earlier. It shows that although there are still birds in the north, a large number of three-dimensional bronzes are still mainly used in the south.
Is Sanxingdui really lonely?
Sanxingdui is everywhere linked to all parts of the country. His artifacts feel magical, but not mysterious. I speculate that in the middle of the Shang Dynasty, The southern city of the Shang Dynasty, Wuhan Panlong City, passed on the bronze casting technology to the south.
After the Panlong City did not fall, the bronzes in the north and south developed for at least three hundred years. So we can see that the southern bronzes are basically based on the northern bronzes and ornaments of the middle Shang Dynasty. With the development of time, there will certainly be the latest northern bronzes in the south, so the south began the process of imitation, of which Sanxingdui I suspect is the place where casting began earlier, because the bronzes of this period are generally imitated with heavier traces.
Later, when I arrived in Xingan Oceania, Jiangxi, the bronzes from the process to the design have completely lost the Yin Ruins bronzes of the same period, and some I think there are more than enough. But when you look closely, you will find that many of the ornaments are still based on the popular styles of the middle Shang Dynasty, and some are obviously on top of their own characteristics with the latest design features of the north.
There are certainly many things we don't know about Sanxingdui, such as the relationship between the southern provinces, where the bronzes were cast, how they flowed, and where the bronze culture went after the Western Zhou Dynasty. But because of this, it is more important to try to find answers, rather than because others have lost the ability to think independently because of a mysterious sentence.
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