If you want to understand the development level of the ancient Shu people of Sanxingdui, you must trace the source of Sanxingdui, and the best way is to use jade and pottery, rather than bronze. These things buried in the Sanxingdui feel more like something is hidden, so those pits may also be buried at several different times to hide something. It is important to find a workshop to prove that the things in sanxingdui are made locally and not brought to sanxingdui from out of town. It is necessary to distinguish the time of various types of artifacts, the time of the hidden pit, and the time of the city wall, which is conducive to tracing the source of the Sanxingdui.
Because only by relying on the excavated things are subconsciously classified by archaeologists into the sacrificial supplies for analysis, it is not necessarily scientific, and all the things dug out have an important feature, that is, value. Therefore, I personally feel that the pits dug out by Sanxingdui are most likely not sacrificial supplies, but more like the national bank of the ancient Shu kingdom, preserving the valuables held by this country.
Then we wonder if the bronzes, jades, ivory, and shell currency in them were all valuable items obtained through exchanges with civilizations in other regions at that time, wars, and generally various reasons. These things existed in the ancient Shu kingdom, perhaps only because they belonged to very valuable things at that time.
Therefore, Sanxingdui is basically not established, in addition to the above, the other reasons are that although the bronze ware shape is somewhat different, but the bronze copper mine is basically decoded with modern technology, it is copper containing high radioactive lead, sichuan does not have this copper mine, but it is highly consistent with the content of the shang bronze excavated in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in the same period, basically determining that the copper mine is in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
And sanxingdui ruins on the side of the excavation of the ancient dock, combined with the Sanxingdui jade, you can roughly guess the appearance of Sanxingdui at least along the lower Yangtze River Liangzhu to the middle reaches of the Baodun Sanxingdui here obviously has a clear cultural transmission process, but the sanxingdui theocracy is particularly obvious, whether the scepter or some very distinctive bronzes, I think here is estimated that there is another culture spread from the southwest in the Sanxingdui here formed a collision and combination, After all, the ancient Silk Road in the southwest is actually much earlier than we know, and looking at Sanxingdui can not look at the bronze age of the heyday, the early Sanxingdui relics to the second and third phases of the peak of the bronze age is obviously 500 years later than the Yin Shang period, this can be directly broken by modern technology, there are factual basis, that is, the ancient Shu civilization is an important branch of the multi-point origin of Chinese civilization. Therefore, the development level of the Sanxingdui ancient Shu people is far superior to that of the Central Plains Dynasty.
But in fact, history is written by the victors, so the historical materials handed down are inevitably biased, coupled with some myths and legends, which make the historical truth even more confusing. However, I personally believe that at least a few points should be true: 1, the ancient Shu civilization has a long history, no less than the Central Plains civilization, but also one of the sources of Chinese civilization; 2, the ancient Shu civilization and the Central Plains civilization have exchanges, mutual influence, the ancient Shu civilization in some periods of time in some aspects of the past surpassed the Central Plains civilization; 3, the Central Plains civilization later developed better, gradually emerged from the various sub-civilizations, and integrated other civilizations to form the main body of Chinese civilization.
Finally, where did the people of the Sanxingdui civilization go, why did they suddenly disappear, and why no remains have been found now, this question requires more archaeological discoveries. Here is also a question that everyone can think about, the location of the ancient civilization is not the later ancient capital, such as the Yin Shang civilization is not in Zhengzhou and Xuchang, the Sanxingdui civilization is not in Chengdu, and the Hemudu civilization is not in Hangzhou, does this mean that there was a fault between the ancient civilization and the ancient civilization? People of ancient times and people of ancient times may not be in the same lineage.