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"If National Treasures Could Talk" said that "hundreds of bronze fragments were unearthed from the No. 2 Sacrificial Pit" in Sanxingdui. This was the situation when the Sacred Tree No. 1 was unearthed - hundreds of bronze fragments. "These remain in the world.

How are the pieces put together?

What myths and history does the Bronze Sacred Tree bring us?

Listen to what Zhu Jiake, executive deputy director of the Sanxingdui Museum, said about the modification: the fragments were turned into "hundreds of bronze fragments" - this was the situation when the sacred tree, which was later named Sanxingdui No. 1, was unearthed. Who

Can you dream that these fragments actually form a huge cultural relic with a height of 3.96 meters? It is the largest of the various large and small sacred trees unearthed in the Sanxingdui site. It may even be the largest single piece of the same period discovered internationally.

Bronze artifacts.

In 1986, Sacrificial Pit No. 2 of the Sanxingdui Site was discovered. National treasure-level cultural relics such as the bronze longitudinal mask, golden staff, and gold-faced bronze human head that we are familiar with all came from here.

Director Zhu of the Sanxingdui Museum said: “All the cultural relics in the sacrificial pit had been manually smashed and flattened before being buried. They were burned by fire during the sacrifice, and then put into the pit, filled with soil, and then tamped layer by layer. As a result, the artifacts were deformed and

The degree of distortion and damage is quite serious, which has caused great difficulties in the modification work. "The actual situation of the excavation of the No. 2 sacrificial pit may be even worse. Yang Xiaowu, who presided over the modification of the bronze sacred tree, once said: "The trunk was broken into three pieces in the pit.

The branches were broken into 18 sections, the tree base was broken into 4 large pieces, and the base of the tree had more than 30 pieces that could be assembled together. The birds, fruits, and hanging ornaments on the sacred tree were scattered among the fragments in the pit, and there were almost no pieces.

"There is no integrity at all", some of them "were distorted and deformed after the soil layer was compacted", and "the handles of the fruits on some branches have been burned to a semi-melted state".

Teacher Yang took his apprentice Guo Hanzhong and former Chongqing Museum curator Cai Changxin to officially start the modification work of the bronze sacred tree," Director Zhu said. "Unexpectedly, the modification work continued until 1996, a full ten years later.

In 1997, the Sanxingdui Museum was officially opened, and the bronze sacred tree was displayed to the world with its special magnificence.

"Yang Xiaowu was modifying the Sanxingdui cultural relic sacred tree on super-high scaffolding. The bronze sacred tree we see now has three layers of branches, three branches on each layer. There are two fruit branches on the branches, one upward and one hanging down.

The fruit base is huge, and there are nine birds in the whole tree, standing on the fruits on the upward branches. "But the top of the tree is still damaged, because there is no reference and no data record, so we don't know what is on the top and what it looks like."

shape.

Teacher Yang once said that the mystery of the damaged tree top cannot be solved by guesswork. Perhaps the truth will be revealed only when another identical bronze sacred tree is unearthed.

"The Bronze Sacred Tree also has a dragon on the trunk of the Bronze Sacred Tree. Curator Zhu said, "The bronze dragon was broken into 13 pieces, and after modification it was 1.75 meters long.

At the beginning, we did not know that the bronze dragon was part of the sacred tree, but modified it as an independent artifact.

After the sacred tree was modified, the experts attached the dragon to the tree. The dragon's claws and abdomen were closely connected with the sacred tree and fit perfectly.

"Actually, in addition to the No. 1 sacred tree that we know about, there are several other sacred trees in Sanxingdui. Director Zhu told us, "In addition to the two large-scale sacred trees that appeared in the documentary "If National Treasures Can Talk," there are 4 more.

Small sacred tree, 2 separate sacred tree bases.

Most of them are now on display in the Sanxingdui Museum Collection Hall, but the damage to the small sacred tree is serious and cannot be further modified.

"Intrinsic: Turning Myth into Reality What is the intrinsic content of such a unique bronze tree? Why is it known as the "sacred tree"? Director Zhu said: "There are several different views on the intrinsic nature of this bronze tree.

, but we have reached a consensus on defining the copper tree as a 'sacred tree'.

In ancient Chinese classics, records about sacred trees are usually closely related to myths. Divine trees are often depicted as different plants. They are places where the sun and moon appear and symbols of international exchanges. Fusang, Ruomu, and Jianmu are

It is such a unique tree in the legend.

“Let’s start with the ‘Ten Days Myth’ and the hibiscus tree in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Director Zhu said eloquently, and the distant movement seemed to bring us back to that different era, "Legend has it that there are ten suns in one sun in the sky, and the work of the sun is carried out by a golden crow carrying the sun."

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These ten suns rise in turn every day. Whenever one sun works from east to west, the other nine suns rest on the fusang branches.

Fusang is the sun god tree that grows in the East. It is the place where the sun bird hovers every morning when it rises and prepares to fly.

Legend has it that Ruomu grows in the far west - where the sun sets. Every morning the sun rises from the hibiscus trees in the east, and at night it sets on Ruomu in the west.

"Details of the Bronze Divine Tree Director Zhu paused for a moment, and then said in a tone of great appreciation, "This is probably the most imaginative sun myth in the world, and it also fully reflects the ancient Chinese ancestors' views on trees and birds.

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