Sanxingdui Cultural Relics Awards, netizens: The more you dig other sites, the more you understand, the more you dig Sanxingdui, the more outrageous

Among the ancient ruins, the most mysterious and unpredictable is the Sanxingdui civilization site. In the words of netizens, the more other sites are dug, the more clear they are, and the more Sanxingdui is dug out, the more outrageous they are. Since the discovery of the Sanxingdui civilization site, archaeologists have excavated the site many times and unearthed many amazing ancient cultural relics. However, as more and more cultural relics are unearthed, the Sanxingdui civilization has become more and more mysterious. .

The Sanxingdui Cultural Site is an ancient Shu cultural site dating from 2600 to 4800 years ago. Since its discovery in the 1930s, it has attracted the attention of archaeological experts at home and abroad. The excavation of the Sanxingdui cultural site began in the 1930s, and then had to be suspended due to the turbulent current situation. It was not until the 1980s half a century later that archaeologists began to excavate this ancient relic on a large scale.

Since the early 1980s, archaeologists have been excavating the Sanxingdui cultural relics for more than 20 years, and a series of important cultural relics have been unearthed, such as bronze sacred trees, bronze vertical-eye masks, and bronze standing figures. However, after these cultural relics were excavated, archaeologists have not been able to solve the mystery, and the mystery of the origin of Sanxingdui civilization is still confusing. In this case, archaeologists had to temporarily stop the excavation of the Sanxingdui ruins. It was not until November 2019 that after a lapse of more than 30 years, archaeologists excavated the Sanxingdui ruins again.

As more and more cultural relics have been unearthed from the Sanxingdui ruins, archaeologists have further speculated on the origin of the Sanxingdui civilization, but they are still unable to truly solve the mystery of the origin of the Sanxingdui culture, and even when did the Sanxingdui civilization disappear? There is no answer to the question of disappearing for any reason.

Through carbon-14 dating of Sanxingdui cultural relics, archaeologists have calculated that the Sanxingdui civilization is about 2,600 to 4,800 years ago. This time span has exceeded 2,000 years, which is longer than the entire ancient feudal history. In such a long time span, archaeologists are unable to determine when the Sanxingdui civilization disappeared.

In addition to being unable to determine the time when the Sanxingdui civilization disappeared, archaeologists have not been able to find the answer to the cause of the disappearance of the Sanxingdui civilization. According to the judgment of archaeological experts on the site of the excavation of the ruins, it can only be speculated that the civilization may have been destroyed by floods or wars, and some experts believe that the disappearance of the Sanxingdui civilization may be due to tribal migration.

Each of the many cultural relics unearthed from the Sanxingdui civilization relics can be called ancient works of art, especially those bronze masks with exaggerated and unique shapes, which are more like masterpieces of abstract masters. Whether it is the cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui or the ancient city walls, burial groups and sacrificial pits unearthed by archaeologists, it shows that the Sanxingdui civilization is a very mature civilization system. But one thing that surprised archaeologists is that no traces of writing have been found in the Sanxingdui ruins.

As we all know, writing is an important indicator of the development of a civilization. The more mature a civilization is, the more mature it will be. Judging from these cultural relics unearthed in the Sanxingdui ruins, the Sanxingdui civilization must be an ancient civilization with a high degree of civilization, but why can't find relevant written records? Although archaeologists once found patterns of people, fish and birds on a golden rod unearthed in a "sacrificial pit" in Sanxingdui, which looks very similar to ancient hieroglyphs, the number of these patterns is too rare to form words at all the concept of.

Judging from these cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui, the style of jade wares has a high similarity with the cultural relics unearthed from the Liangzhu ruins in Hangzhou area, which indicates that the Sanxingdui civilization may have been deeply influenced by the Liangzhu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Some scholars have studied the Sanxingdui culture and the Yi culture and believe that the Sanxingdui civilization and the ancient Yi people may be inextricably linked, and the two civilizations must have intersected at some distant point in time.

There is no doubt that the Sanxingdui civilization is a very great civilization, with high attainments in bronze smelting and jade carving. It is really unimaginable how a mature civilization like Sanxingdui was destroyed overnight, because there is no written record left, it can be said that it is very difficult to explore the mystery of the disappearance of Sanxingdui civilization. Perhaps only when more cultural relics are unearthed from the Sanxingdui ruins, can the mystery be solved.