This morning (9th), an event called "I Come to Jinsha Lecture" was held on the side of the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum, which is also the first project of the museum's 2023 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day series
A classroom scene like this is indeed rare: next to the ruins of the ancient Shu civilization that has lasted for 3,000 years, there is an open middle school classroom. More than 60 middle school students from Chengdu Shude Middle School walked into the Sands and met this ancient civilization site again from a new perspective under the guidance of teachers from various schools in Chengdu such as history, art and English.
Since 2021, the Jinsha Site Museum and the Chengdu Academy of Education Sciences have jointly launched the "I Come to Jinsha Lecture" activity, "moving" school classrooms directly into the museum, creating the first teaching classroom presented on an archaeological site.
Inside the Sands Heritage Museum on June 9, 2023
The Jinsha Relics Museum, built on the original site of the Jinsha Site Sacrifice Area, is currently the most well-preserved riverside sacrifice site in China during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and it is also the first archaeological excavation site of the Jinsha site, unearthing tens of thousands of ancient Shu treasures such as the sun god bird gold ornaments, gold masks, and ten jade knots.
Although the Jinsha Site Museum and its representative artifact "Sun God Bird" have long been famous, today's Jinsha class will make you realize that most people do not know enough about the ancient Shu civilization and Jinsha cultural relics.
In the morning junior high school group course "Dayun Jinsha - Inheritance of Civilization", Yang Yao, an art teacher from Chengdu Shimuro Middle School (Beihu Campus), said that the "divine bird" on the most familiar sun god bird pattern is likely to be based on the big flamingo.
The site of the "I'll Lecture at Sands" event
The Great Flamingo, also known as the Great Flamingo, is mostly distributed in Central and South America, Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia and western India, and is rare in the wild in China. However, in November 2012, the second wetland resources survey team in Sichuan Province recorded the first occurrence of the Great Flamingo (flamingos) in the Yazihe Nature Reserve in Guanghan.
According to news reports at the time, the bird's coat was dull and its wings were worn, presumably a migratory bird that deviated from course and broke away from the large army due to the influence of the cold snap during the migration.
6 juvenile flamingos photographed by birdwatchers in 2015
In 2015, birdwatchers were once again surprised to spot six juvenile flamingos on the Tuojiang mudflats in Jintang County, Chengdu. According to professional analysis: they may also be wild flamingos from Central Asia, which migrated to warm areas such as India and Sri Lanka in autumn and winter, encountered bad weather when crossing snowy mountains and plateaus, and then "wandered" all the way to the Chengdu Plain.
Although wild flamingos are rare in Sichuan today, if you go back in time to the ancient Shu period 3,000 years ago, when elephants and rhinos roamed the Chengdu plain, the great flamingo storks probably roamed the warm waters. These beautiful big birds with pink feathers and tall (standing more than 1 meter) must also be extraordinary in the eyes of the ancient Shu ancestors, and can be the incarnation of "divine birds".
Sun god bird pattern at the swipe card of Chengdu metro
According to the relevant person in charge of the museum: after today's "I come to Jinsha lecture" activity, the Jinsha Site Museum will continue the 2023 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day theme series activities for three consecutive days——
On June 10, the public welfare appraisal consultation activity of private cultural relics collected for nearly two months will be held in the Golden Museum, and experts from the Sichuan Station of the National Cultural Relics Export Appraisal will carry out public welfare appraisal consultation for the audience on the spot, guide and standardize the private collection activities, and popularize the knowledge of cultural relics collection appreciation.
"Jijin Wanli - Southwest China Bronze Civilization Exhibition" site
On June 11th, Professor Huo Wei, Academic Dean of the School of History and Culture of Sichuan University and Director of the Museum of Sichuan University, will tell the colorful history of the Bronze Age that will forever reside in the landscape of Southwest China in combination with the exquisite cultural relics displayed in the "Jijin Wanli - Bronze Civilization Exhibition in Southwest China".
On June 12th, the "Jinsha Night - Sino-Japanese Floral Art Exchange Activity" hosted by the Chengdu People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism will present different Chinese and Japanese floral arrangement art styles through the dialogue of floral masters and the on-site display of flower arrangement art.
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