Sanxingdui has a pivotal position in the archaeological community, it interprets the mysterious and magnificent ancient Shu civilization for modern people, and is called the existence of "historical code".
In this site, buried in the 4800 to 2800 years, two thousand years of cultural accumulation, after continuous evolution, people found that the entire ancient Shu civilization can be said to be conceived, born and grown here, until the peak, and then experience the prosperity and decline.
Some historians have said that the Sanxingdui site is not inferior to the existence of the Anyang Yin Ruins, and in the history of the world, it is also comparable to the discovery of the ancient cities of Troy and Nineveh.
Even in the continent with vast land and resources, the ruins of ancient cities that are close to or have reached the stage of civilization throughout the country, such as Liangzhu, Yanshi, Yin Ruins, etc., are almost all records of only a few hundred years, but only a certain period of civilization at that time.
Only the Sanxingdui ruins, like a "time capsule" buried by the ancient Shu civilization, contain the entire process of a civilization from birth to decline.
Sanxingdui can be said to be the most representative site of the ancient Shu civilization, the mysterious ancient Shu civilization, in the historical records, there are many legends and records of strange and chaotic gods, such as the "Shu King Benji", the record of the ancient Shu kingdom is very absurd.
Even in the "Shu Zhi", although the record of the ancient Shu civilization tends to be normal, it is still largely influenced by the "Shu King Benji", in which strange records such as the silkworm bush "its eyes are longitudinal" are left.
It is recorded in the "Benji of the King of Shu" that there were only four generations of rulers of the ancient Shu civilization, but they ruled the entire ancient Shu civilization for 34,000 years.
At that time, people did not understand the written language, there was no liturgical music, and even entered the national stage, for the ancient Shu civilization, in fact, people had a very limited understanding, no wonder there were "silkworm bushes and fish, the founding of the country he was dazed, Erlai forty-eight thousand years old, not with the Qin Saitong people" saying.
But how did the Sanxingdui people, who have a deep cultural heritage, have the support of the ancient Shu civilization, and how did they mysteriously disappear in history?
According to archaeological findings, the Sanxingdui site has a total of sixteen floors, and the influence of foreign civilizations on it is very powerful, and many bronze artifacts such as bronze masks and bronze sacred trees excavated from Sanxingdui can be found, and the quantity and quality are almost exactly the same as those in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
Like its unique cultural heritage, its disappearance is also full of mysterious colors, like the inexplicable disappearance of the Mayan civilization.
The current mainstream theory about its disappearance is that it is because of natural disasters, that is, earthquakes and floods, which led to the abrupt end of the Sanxingdui culture.
Sanxingdui existed between 4800 and 2800, and the Ancient Shu region at that time, from about 5000 to 3500 years, was in the second and third new ice ages, and the rainfall was very abundant.
Coincidentally, the source of the Tuojiang and Minjiang rivers is in the Longmenshan geological fault zone, and since 1169 AD, there have been 25 destructive earthquakes, 20 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above, and 10 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above.
The Book of Han records that Emperor Yuan of Hancheng was in the third year of the first month of The First Month of Yingyin, Shu County, MinShan landslide, the River; the river flowed against the river for three days. Naitong. The "Huayang Guozhi" also contains: In the winter of the second year of the Jin Dynasty Emperor Chengkang, the Min Mountains collapsed and the river was exhausted.
It can be seen from historical data that in history, the plain area often caused floods due to earthquakes, and in the Sanxingdui site, the eighth accumulation layer has a water-rich silt layer, which is caused by the long-term stagnation of the flood.
According to the study, earthquakes in the Min River and its tributaries caused the river to swell, forcing the Mamu River to divert, leading to the destruction of the Sanxingdui culture.
In addition, there are frequent lightning strikes or foreign invasions that lead to the destruction of Sanxingdui, but the real history is no longer available, and it is hoped that in future research, the reasons for the destruction of Sanxingdui can be found.
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