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On September 5, 2020, after more than 30 years, the Sanxingdui site began excavation again, and after the news was made public, Sanxingdui once again became a hot topic of discussion.
After half a year of hard excavation, on the 20th of this month, the newly excavated cultural relics from sanxingdui have entered people's vision, and those beautiful cultural relics for a time have really opened people's eyes.
The excavation unearthed more than 500 important artifacts, including mysterious gold masks, ivory and ivory products, in addition to the unearthing of silk traces from more than 3,000 years ago, and so on.
Looking at these cultural relics, the mystery of Sanxingdui itself has not been unveiled, and it is once again shrouded in a thick fog, so that people cannot sort out the ins and outs of Sanxingdui now.
When did it rise and disappear, and what kind of history does this mysterious civilization have?
Is the Sanxingdui, which is incompatible with the Chinese civilization, and the ancient Shu civilization beyond imagination really related to the ancient Egyptian civilization thousands of years ago, and what are the similarities between the two?
Please follow my words and walk into that mysterious forest.
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Located on the south bank of the Yazi River in the northwest of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, sanxingdui ancient ruins have a history of about 5,000 to 3,000 years, and are by far the largest, longest-lasting and most culturally rich ancient Shu cultural sites found in the southwest region.
The Sanxingdui site is known as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, and the artifacts unearthed have surprised the world.
The discovery of Sanxingdui also sends a signal to people that even if it is incompatible with Chinese civilization, the ancient Shu region, like the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin, belongs to the matrix of Chinese civilization.
According to the inference of archaeologists, the age range of the Sanxingdui site group has continued for about two thousand years, and the excavated pottery, jade, bronze, gold and silver ware have distinct local cultural characteristics and are a system of their own, and archaeologists have named it "Sanxingdui Culture".
It is worth mentioning that the area that has been excavated so far accounts for only about 2% of the total area of the site.
If Sanxingdui is fully excavated, it will surely shock the world, and Sanxingdui culture will become another distinctive representative of Chinese civilization.
This not only reminds me of Li Bai's "Shu Dao Difficulty".
I still remember when I studied this poem, I always felt that Shudi was deserted in ancient times, inaccessible, and could not even be read by birds.
However, after knowing Sanxingdui, I learned that as early as thousands of years ago, an ancient civilization that was quite advanced and developed, even comparable to the culture of the Central Plains, had been bred there.
The discovery of Sanxingdui originated from a coincidence.
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One day in 1929, a farmer named Yan Daocheng in Guanghan County on the south bank of the Duck River discovered something unusual when he was in Taohegou, and after careful identification, he found that it was a pit of jade tools.
This honest peasant, who had seen so many jade tools, naturally did not dare to take it for himself, so he reported this news, but it was a chaotic time at that time, and it did not attract enough attention from the relevant departments.
Two years later, a British missionary in Guanghan County heard the news, found the local garrison, asked them to protect and investigate, and gave the collected jade to the West China University Museum for safekeeping.
Based on the clues provided by the missionary, Ge Weihan, director of the West China University Museum, led an assistant, presided over by the county magistrate of Guanghan County, and conducted a ten-day excavation around the place where Yan Daocheng found the jade tools.
The excavation was fruitful, and Ge Weihan also compiled and published the "Hanzhou Excavation Briefing".
Even so, people at that time did not think that there would be an ancient Shu civilization buried underground, let alone that place would shock the whole world.
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After the excavation of Ge Weihan and others, the excavation of the Sanxingdui site has been stalled for various reasons, and if you think about it, this stagnation is also a good thing, if the Sanxingdui was excavated on a large scale at that time, I don't know how many priceless cultural relics would be plundered by robbers.
It was not until the 1980s that Sanxingdui ushered in a period of large-scale continuous excavations, and the thousands of cultural relics excavated were even more shocking to the world.
Among the thousands of cultural relics, the most distinctive are three or four hundred bronzes, which have human heads, human faces, animal faces, sacred trees, sun wheels, peacocks, birds, monsters and so on.
These bronzes can be singled out to write a large paragraph.
For example, the bronze sacred tree, which is 3.95 meters high, is divided into three layers and has nine branches, and on each branch stands a sacred bird symbolizing the sun.
For example, the 1.42-meter-long scepter is full of exquisite and mysterious ornaments.
Another example is the head of the person full of mysterious smiles, whose facial features have almost no resemblance to those of the Central Plains people.
The excavation of Sanxingdui unearthed more than 500 cultural relics, including mysterious gold masks, ivory and ivory products, and silk traces of silk more than 3,000 years ago.
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Speaking of the Silk Road, we are naturally familiar with it, but there are silk traces from more than 3,000 years ago in Sanxingdui, what does this mean?
This seems to indicate that as early as the ancient Shu Kingdom, there was already a Silk Road, from the ancient Shu Kingdom as the source, all the way to the west, through the Indus River, and even to ancient Egypt.
So, are there really similarities between sanxingdui culture and ancient Egyptian culture?
Of course.
In ancient Egypt, there was a famous god named Horus, who was the god of the eagle-headed man, and his eyes had divine powers, and among the artifacts unearthed at Sanxingdui, there was a human face with protruding eyeballs, which also emphasized the power of the eyes.
Ancient Egypt was best known for the pyramids of the pharaohs, and there were three strange mounds in the Three Star Piles, and coincidentally, these three mounds were at almost the same latitude as the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid group.
The most characteristic gold mask in the artifacts unearthed at Sanxingdui seems to have something in common with the ancient Egyptian Tutankhamun gold mask, and the golden scepter is also very similar to the ancient Egyptian pharaoh's scepter symbolizing power.
In The Chinese civilization, the symbol of power is the Ding Instrument, and artifacts such as the Scepter, which have never appeared before the excavation of Sanxingdui.
In addition, a large number of bronze scarabs have been unearthed from the ruins of Sanxingdui, which are an incarnation of the sun god in Egyptian culture and symbolize the sunrise, and there is no record of worship of beetles in the Central Plains culture.
There are other artifacts in Sanxingdui that are similar to the ancient Egyptian civilization, and we will not list them all.
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If the Sanxingdui civilization is really related to the Egyptian civilization, then is ancient Egypt the source or is the Sanxingdui the source?
I think Sanxingdui should be the source.
First of all, the civilization that says Sanxingdui is more than 3,000 years BC, which is more than 5,000 years old, while the egyptian pyramids are more than 4,500 years old.
Secondly, Sanxingdui's gold leaf making technology predates Egyptian civilization by hundreds of years, and the ancient Egyptians did not use this technique of engraving on gold leaf.
Therefore, the Sanxingdui culture and the ancient Egyptian civilization can be connected to explain it like this:
The Sanxingdui culture is self-contained, due to various factors, the ancient Shu ancestors migrated westward, opening up a super ancient Silk Road all the way to the west, reaching ancient Egypt, and finally thriving there.
That is to say, once this hypothesis is demonstrated, we can proudly say to the whole world that the ancient Egyptian civilization was only a branch of the Chinese civilization.
Of course, since most of the Sanxingdui ruins have not yet been excavated, these are just conjectures based on the excavated cultural relics, but with the excavation of the site, I believe that the mystery of Sanxingdui will be unveiled, so let's wait and see.
References: Sanxingdui Ruins, Outline of Sichuan History and Culture, Sanxingdui Museum, etc.
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