From July to September 1986, the largest and most culturally rich ancient Shu cultural site found in Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, the Sanxingdui Cultural Site as we know it, was discovered.
The discovery of Sanxingdui was like a thunderclap, which immediately attracted widespread attention at home and abroad. About the Sanxingdui is built by aliens, etc., mysterious speculation is also like weeds, is Sanxingdui really related to aliens? Why is Sanxingdui subverting Chinese civilization?
First of all, we must know that even if there is no alien gimmick, Sanxingdui is enough to squeeze into the "hot search" with its own popularity.
Sanxingdui unearthed a large number of heavyweight cultural relics: a large number of pottery, stone tools, jade, bronze ware, gold ware, with distinct local cultural characteristics, and even became a cultural system of its own. These cultural relics have strange shapes and are completely different from the Central Plains culture.
One of the most representative bronze masks is the best proof of this.
The person in this mask has a high nose, a large mouth, and a pair of eyes protruding outward, almost becoming a column. And this strange shape of the bursting eyeball has become an important feature of Sanxingdui's heritage.
Based on these, many people believe that Sanxingdui was built by aliens. However, once this trumped-up view is compared with the facts, it is easy to find its loopholes.
Looking at the records of the ancient Shu Kingdom, we can find that the shape on the bronze mask is actually a prototype. In the territory of the ancient Shu Kingdom, there was a king named silkworm bush, and this silkworm bush had the characteristics of "longitudinal eyes": that is, the eyeballs were protruding.
So people caught on this characteristic of him when making it, and exaggerated it to become what we see now.
In addition, this image is also related to the geographical environment of the ancient Shu Kingdom at that time. At that time, some places in the ancient Shu country were mostly saline-alkali land, not suitable for growing food, and because the ancient Shu land was far from the sea, it was impossible to dry seawater as salt, so the local people used saline-alkali land to make soil salt instead of sea salt.
Long-term consumption of this iodine-deficient soil salt, people are prone to endocrine disorders to get hyperthyroidism: swollen neck, protruding eyeballs.