#2021 National Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries # I think the biggest significance of Sanxingdui is that it proves one thing, "there are four parties, there is China". The Sanxingdui site is about 4800-3100 years old, much earlier than the ancient Greek civilization. This is a cultural site of the ancient Shu country, the area reached 12 square kilometers, almost catching up with the area of the ancient city of Rome after 2000 years, when the bronze warrior statues of ancient Greece were salvaged in the 70s of the last century, the entire Western archaeological community happily called them the greatest archaeological discovery in the past 500 years, thinking that 14 years later, the excavation of our Sanxingdui directly shocked the whole world, such as large bronze standing figures,
He is the world's largest, earliest, most peculiar and highest level of rare bronze masterpiece, known as the "King of Bronze", at the same time, Sanxingdui has also unearthed other precious bronzes and a large number of precious cultural relics, and from the day they were discovered, there are too many mysteries that are still difficult to solve. For example, such a clever bronze smelting technology and bronze culture, is it a native or foreign object of Sanxingdui? We know that Sichuan's copper production is not much, where does such a large amount of bronze raw materials come from? These bronzes, which are completely different from those in the Central Plains, what kind of stories do they want to express? Judging from the cultural relics excavated from Sanxingdui, a total of eight bronze sacred trees were excavated, and the most completely restored one was 396 centimeters high.
Let's take the "Fan Casting Method" of the Shang Zhou Period, first of all, not to mention how complicated the production process is, it is difficult to achieve it from pouring copper water into the mold, and before the copper water reaches the end of the mold, the copper water has cooled, so how did the ancient Shu people do it? Scientists have found that the bronze artifacts unearthed from Sanxingdui contain phosphorus, the bronzes in the Central Plains are tin plus copper, and the bronzes in Sanxingdui are phosphorus plus copper. As we all know, phosphorus should have been discovered by German merchants in 1669, did the ancient Shu people already discover phosphorus? What's even more amazing is that they can accurately measure the ratio of phosphorus and copper, in addition to the bronze sacred tree, there are a large number of bronze masks,
We know that Sichuan is not a place with high copper production, where do these raw materials come from? Mr. Jin Zhengyao, professor of science and technology archaeology at the University of Science and Technology of China, did a systematic lead isotope analysis and research on the bronzes excavated from Sanxingdui in the 90s of the last century, and he found that these bronzes contained a tissue called high radioactive lead, which was not produced in the land of ancient Shu, but the same source of bronze ore materials used in the Central Plains Yin Ruins, and now the cultural relics excavated from Sanxingdui have reached a weight of more than one ton, not locally produced in ancient Shu, so how were these raw materials transported to the ancient Shu country? Not only bronzes, Sanxingdui also unearthed a large number of ivory,
And where did it come from? Scholars tend to think that they come from exotic regions, such as Burma, South Asia, or India, and that there are excavations of yu chun,
It is difficult to say that the ancient Shu kingdom did not have any communication with the outside world, all of which show that the distant ancient Shu country has a very rich foreign exchange, Li Bai once said that "the Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the Qingtian", perhaps in that time, there was a mysterious ancient road that even Li Bai did not know, linking the ancient Shu civilization with the Central Plains civilization, and even the exotic civilization, he proved to us that chinese civilization is not a single origin, we think that his origin is to occupy China, dominating the four directions, but the Sanxingdui civilization tells us that there are four parties, there is China The huge mystery is unveiled again and again, which will bring us unprecedented shock.