The third generation of the ancient Shu dynasty, the Yu Clan, solved the mystery of sanxingdui culture

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Hello everyone, I am Shushan Penman, it is a pleasure to share the article to everyone. Ancient Shu culture We have talked about silkworm bushes and cypress sludges, today, let's talk about Sanxingdui.

Sanxingdui I went last year (2021), to be honest, go to Sanxingdui if you don't do enough homework, go to the white, just enough eye addiction.

To understand Sanxingdui, it is necessary to figure out its inheritance relationship with the ancient Shu culture, which is exactly what the penman wants to say today.

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To solve the mystery of Sanxingdui, we must first explain the origin of Sanxingdui's exquisite bronzes.

Bronzes, which seem to us to be antiques in modern times, were nuclear weapons in ancient times!

Bronze sword

From the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, human weapons and production tools underwent a qualitative mutation, and those tribes that mastered bronze weapons first took the lead in moving to the throne of kings, including the Shang Dynasty in the Central Plains.

Chinese bronze technology was introduced from two routes: one was introduced through the north of the Tianshan Mountains from the Mongolian Plateau, and the other was introduced through the Onion Ridge and from the Hexi Corridor. The former was introduced to the Shang tribe, which made the Shang tribe stronger; the latter part was introduced to the Sichuan Basin, and Sanxingdui flourished.

The introduction of bronze technology did not mean the birth of bronze, but also needed one important thing - copper ore.

Copper ore

Light has technology, no materials, it is impossible to have large-scale bronzes. Therefore, in the Bronze Age, every dynasty was chasing copper ore, which was a strategic resource at that time, and who mastered the copper mine, who mastered advanced tools and weapons.

So, where are the copper mines in the Chengdu Plain?

The answer is: Longmen Mountain.

Longmen Mountain is part of the Min Mountains, which stretch from the Skyscraper Ridge in the north, which is the starting point of the Three Kingdoms Deng Ai's smuggling of Yinping, and to the south to the Yulei Mountain, which is the Dujiangyan heap cut off by the Warring States Li Bing.

In the area of present-day Pengzhou in Chengdu, Longmen Mountain used to have a name - Xiangshan. There is a river under the Xiangshan Mountain, called the Xiang River, now called the Duck River, and people around Shifang and Guanghan should be very clear.

Why do I say that these things seem to have nothing to do with sanxingdui bronzes? Because there is a copper mine on the mountain, the Baoshan copper mine, and the Xiangjiang River just flows through the current Sanxingdui! As shown in the figure:

As a result, something seemingly unrelated was connected: Did the ancient Shu people smelt copper in The Mountains? And then transported to Sanxingdui via the Xiangjiang River?

One thing can be circumstantially corroborated: Sanxingdui did not find any copper smelting relics such as pottery and copper slag, but in Yin Ruins, they abounded. The only thing missing is direct evidence, if these relics can be found in Longmen Mountain, the source of the Sanxingdui bronzes, you can hammer.

In short, when the ancient Shu culture developed to Sanxingdui, it entered the Bronze Age. And which ancient Shu Dynasty does it correspond to?

The penman's conclusion is: Yu Kaishi.

Statue of the Fish King

Before the Yu clan, the change of dynasties, or the change of the leading tribe, was determined by productivity. That is to say: which tribe is more productive, the more populous it is, the more powerful it is, and the tribal alliance is decided by it. This is how the Cypress clan replaced the Silkworm Clan.

However, after the bronze was produced, this pattern was broken. The right to speak is not only in the hands of tribes with advanced productivity, but also accompanied by powerful armed forces. With the blessing of bronze weapons, even if you have few people, you can defeat the tribes with many people, and this is how the Shang Dynasty arose.

However, the Yu clan seems to be less fond of using bronze as a weapon, but instead sacrifices, using theocracy to control people's minds, which is a bit like the witchcraft of the Red Mountain people.

Sanxingdui sacrifice scene simulation

The first person in GuShu to master the bronze technique was the Yu Clan who lived in Sanxingdui. The Yu Clan crushed the Bai Guan Clan with the advantage of dimension, so that there were not many Bai Guan clan relics in the former Land of Longxing of the Bai Guan Clan (present-day pi du, Wenjiang, and Dujiangyan junction area). Perhaps, time will bring us more surprises.

Some people will wonder: Isn't there four phases of Sanxingdui? How come you only correspond to a dynasty of the Yu clan here? In fact, it goes like this:

The Sanxingdui site has a total of four phases, but the culture has only three phases.

The first phase of the Sanxingdui site is not called culture, only some simple sites, which correspond to the silkworm cong period, when the center of ancient Shu culture was in the Xinjin area of Chengdu, and the Baodun culture rose.

The second phase of the Sanxingdui site began to enter the Sanxingdui culture, that is, the Sanxingdui phase I culture. At this time, corresponding to the Bai Guan period, the center of ancient Shu culture moved north to Pidu and Wenjiang, and the Baodun culture reached prosperity.

The third phase of the Sanxingdui site is the flourishing period of the Sanxingdui culture, that is, the Sanxingdui Phase II culture. At this time, it corresponds to the Yu dynasty, and the center of ancient Shu culture is in Sanxingdui. A large number of exquisite bronzes appeared during this period, and the totems were dominated by birds.

As for the large number of large eyes, large noses, and wide-chin human faces that appear in Sanxingdui, I think it may be related to the people who introduced bronze technology. They were Indo-Europeans of the R lineage, initially known as the Tocharians, then as the Yue clan, and then they were assimilated by other peoples...

We should be thankful that the Chinese nation has preserved its own traditional culture and has not been assimilated by any other culture (which can be absorbed and accepted), and we have continued to this day. This is a great miracle in human history!

The time of existence of the Yu Clan is roughly the same as that of the Shang Dynasty, and the Shang Dynasty did not die, it died first. Replacing the Yu Clan was King Du Yu, who was cognate with it.

The heyday of sanxingdui culture is the second phase culture, but it was devastated, and the third phase of culture began to become mediocre, which shows that Sanxingdui was replaced by another ancient Shu center. This center is the Jinsha site.

During the reign of King Yu, exchanges between ancient Shu and the outside world increased significantly, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yunnan-Guizhou area. As a result, a sub-center of the Yujing King was formed at the Jinsha site, which was smaller in shape and size than Sanxingdui, but incorporated more external cultural factors, such as Liangzhu jade and a large number of southern ivory.

At this time, due to the squeeze of the Shang Dynasty, the Baipu people of the O2a family began to move from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to the upper reaches, which disguisedly increased the exchange of Central Plains culture and ancient Shu culture, and also laid the foundation for the formation of anti-Shang alliances later.

The center of gravity of the Yu Dynasty began to shift south under the impact of the Central Plains culture, and King Du Yu was probably a co-emperor of the Yu Yu King, who later launched a coup d'état and attacked the Yu Wei King of Sanxingdui and set the capital of the new dynasty in Jinsha.

Some historical sources say that King Du Yu was "Du Pi Yi," or Zhi Qu Shang. It shows that there were two capital cities of the Du Yu Dynasty: one Piyi, which should be today's Jinsha, and the Piyi at that time was estimated to be much larger than it is now; the second was Qushang, and Qu shangcheng was in present-day Shuangliu, that is, the Longxing land of the Silkworm Cong clan. This shows that the center of the ancient Shu is shifting to the southeast.

King Du Yu did a big thing, that is, to respond to the call of the Zhou people to help Zhou Feiyi, so that the Shu kingdom officially entered the vision of the Central Plains Dynasty, which is the last word.

The secret of Sanxingdui is here, if you are interested, you can walk along the route I drew, you will find more interesting details.

See you next time in Sanxingdui!

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