Mystery of Chengdu - the lost ancient Shu Civilization

Mystery of Chengdu - the lost ancient Shu Civilization


Chengdu, in 2001 a road construction site accidents found that shocked the world's archaeological and historical scholars. When a small piece of crumpled gold foil was carefully unfolds, the glittering "Sun Bird" Gold Totem re-rendered in front of the world. This is a foil thickness of only 0.2 mm, gold foil inner ring has 12 hollow rotating light; the outer ring is connected to four feet in the first hollow bird patterns. This precious relics are ancient Shu State brilliant achievements on behalf of gold process, vivid performance of the ancient human "Wu has a negative day" mythology. With the emergence of the Sun Bird gold, a lost ancient civilization three thousand years of re-awakening, to Chengdu, rendering the ancient Shu civilization mystery.

"Sun Bird" gold showroom

2005 "Sun Bird" logo officially became the "China Cultural Heritage" signs

Jinsha thousand years ago, just as opening a mysterious ancient Shu civilization key, not only in Chengdu and Sanxingdui culture, link up Liangzhu culture, but also to the history of Chengdu moving forward for a thousand years. This has never been documented in a mysterious ancient Shu civilization, but has a surprising gold process, mysterious ceremonies, the huge scale of social organization and architecture. It is proved that in the Loess Plateau, the Yangtze River have different systems of ancient civilizations to exist. Sands of the ancient Shu civilization, Peru is the unfinished story, at any time to write another chapter in the Kuang Shi.

Gold mask and Sanxingdui cultural similarities

"Jinsha" is located in the southwest of Qingyang District, Chengdu Jinsha village, about five kilometers from the Chengdu center, the site now to find out an area of about five square kilometers. This site is the twenty-first century, the first major archaeological discoveries in China in 2006, Jinsha has been assessed to the national key cultural relics protection units. This site is near the same period of the Shang and Chou center site, has proven there are worship places, large buildings, general housing, burial grounds ... ... and so on.

Now the site of Jinsha Ruins Museum has been established, which is an order to protect, research, and archaeological finds show Jinsha established by the remains of a theme park-style museum hall, museum, heritage center ... ... very modern architecture such as the composition of .

Museum of Jinsha Relics Museum

Relics Hall inside is the result of the excavation site

Relics Museum is a large dome-shaped building, interior is large column-free space, visitors can experience close places of worship ancient Shu State grand momentum. Exhibition Hall is a square building, focus on the lives of our ancestors show Shu, production and exquisite craft objects, as well as the ancient Shu civilization, occurrence, development, evolution ... ... and other historical knowledge of the system introduction. The roof of the pavilion set up a special key to type a huge skylight, on behalf of Jinsha is open Shu civilization lock and key!

Jinsha Ruins Museum, Exhibition Hall

Jinsha Ruins in Sichuan to build wind Garden Street, was found, the current site of clearing out as many as more than 1000 pieces of precious relics, including more than 30 pieces of gold devices, more than 800 pieces of jade and bronze pieces, more than 170 pieces of stone, in addition to a large number of pottery were unearthed, the most special is the total weight of ivory unearthed nearly a ton. According to expert appraisal, these precious artifacts unearthed in the vast majority belong to the late Shang and early Western Zhou Dynasty between the small part of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Strange bronze portrait

Jinsha relics unearthed in an extremely fine; include gold masks, gold belt, gold round, flared gold ... ... and so on more than 30 pieces, including gold masks, shape, style and a bronze mask Sanxingdui basically the same as other class gold was unique to the Sands. Jinsha excavation of archaeological research is still continuing, according to experts that the current unearthed artifacts are mostly small pieces of artifacts, or may be attached to certain pieces of artifacts on the decoration, and no large-scale artifacts unearthed in the future may also have a significant found.

And thousands of miles away, "Liangzhu culture" in exactly the same Jade

Strange portrait style

Excavated ruins many different kinds of jade; most surprising is the largest one: high of about 22 centimeters of 10 Jade. This jade cong shape, style and the Yangtze River, Taihu Lake Basin Liangzhu culture, exactly the same. Experts speculated that the ancient Shu culture of Jinsha culture is associated not only with the Sanxingdui may also be linked with the culture of the Yangtze River downstream.

Unearthed in Jinsha machine has more than 40 pieces of ivory, only the cylindrical device, cylindrical device with a dot at one end of the center, surrounded by six dots. The ivory was unearthed numerous, with a total weight of almost a ton, these ivory is dedicated to the ancient Shu people sacrificed to the gods heaven and earth. A large number of the complete arrangement of ivory towards the same direction; some ivory was cut into pie-shaped or cylindrical; some time to just take the sharp ivory to worship; of these approaches has shown a strong religious overtones, with a specific religious connotations.

Ruins excavated a large number of ivory, weighing nearly a ton

Jinsha is an important site of one of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, the ancient city with the Chengdu Plain of the prehistoric sites, Sanxingdui the Warring States Period ship coffin tombs constitute the ancient Shu civilization four different stages to prove that the Chengdu Plain is the origin of the Yangtze River upper reaches of civilization.