Sanxingdui ruins of gold mask pictures and uses Sanxingdui ruins is what dynasty

Recently samsung heap ruins in the mask is not attracted everyone's attention, in the social conditions of the time, how to extract gold? And what is the use of this mask? What is the significance of the civilization at that time? These issues are one of the more concerned about the problem.

Samsung heap site is what dynasty

Samsung heap site of the earliest excavation of the two ritual pits time equivalent to the Shang culture of the Yinxu period, which the time of the first pit is slightly earlier than the second ritual pit.

Many people see here in the heart has been the answer, the Shang Dynasty, understand, at that time in Henan's Yin Ruins had unearthed a Houmuwu Ding, and samsung heap of bronzes, although the shape is different, but all accounted for a large.

But some experts came forward to say that the excavation of the first burial pit and the second burial pit is only the heyday of the Sanxingdui civilization, the entire Sanxingdui site is much wider, a full 1,200 hectares, visible at the time of the civilization of the ancient state of Shu of the splendor.

In fact, the upper limit of Sanxingdui culture is the Neolithic period, according to the time division of the Central Plains, Sanxingdui culture is from the Longshan culture continued to the Western Zhou period, before and after about two thousand years of long years.

The first king of Shu was called Silkworm, and legend has it that his eyes were longitudinal, "There was the Marquis of Shu, Silkworm, and his eyes were longitudinal." Legend has it that the bronze longitudinal eye masks of the Sanxingdui might be related to him.

In Li Bai's poem also wrote, "Silkworms and fish mallards, the country is not clear", so that people are more curious about the mysterious civilization of ancient Shu, but also for a layer of mystery veil.

Samsung Pile civilization is not the only product of their own, people in the excavation of the time once found that some of the artifacts on the Samsung Pile and Yin Shang period of some artifacts with similar patterns.

It can be said without hesitation that the ancient Shu Kingdom at that time had cultural exchanges with the Yin Shang period, and applied these cultural exchanges to all aspects of their own.

Samsung Mound exquisite bronzes no let people y shocked, these exquisite artifacts do not reflect the long and brilliant civilization of ancient Shu, but also reflects the Samsung Mound culture is not closed, but at that time the outside world has had a lot of cultural exchanges between these in the shape and ornamentation can be seen on the two.

Summer Dynasty, in the end, where, can not be determined. The study of Xia culture based on the Erlitou site as well as the Erlitou culture, trying to decipher the history and culture of the Xia dynasty, can only be a moon in the water, rootless wood. The Xia Dynasty is surprisingly not recognized by international historiographical studies, and China's provable history of civilization is only 3,700 years old, which is the beginning of the Shang Dynasty.

Don't think about the Xia Dynasty civilization must be weaker than the Shang Dynasty, the royal family of the Shang Dynasty may not be the ancestors of the present Han Dynasty, the level of bronze artifacts of the Shang Dynasty may be inferior to that of the Xia Dynasty, or else it is not possible to accept the idea that Samsungdui may be related to the Xia Dynasty.

Xia moved west, learned metal smelting and back to the Central Plains, Majiayao culture is the Yangshao culture of the west, may be the first landing point of Xia.

Historical research, to take the road of science. Broad thinking, rigorous argumentation, strong conclusions. Samsangdui so advanced metal casting technology, higher than the unearthed Shang dynasty bronze; aesthetic interest in the Chinese land is disappearing, may be the result of the Shang dynasty as well as the Zhou dynasty replaced. Manchu shaved hair and easy to dress may not be advanced or aesthetic, military occupation and domination will change everything.

Gold Mask Usage

Tested, this gold mask contains about 85% gold, silver content in 13% to 14%, and other impurities. Only half of the mask has been found so far.

There is no accurate statement about the use of the gold mask, but many people believe that this gold mask and the masks unearthed in San Jinsha have a connection, there is speculation that the mask has a ritual or the role of the birth of a symbol.

First of all, there is no doubt that the gold masks used as sacrificial vessels in the Sanxingdui-Jinsha system are distinctly different from the masks that functioned as funerary objects in ancient Egypt. Samsangdui two ritual pit unearthed in the 57 pieces of bronze sphinxes, there

4 pieces on the attached gold masks, fully illustrates the Samsangdui gold masks is the main function of the bronze sphinxes to wear on the ritual use, the newly discovered masks of the fifth pit is no exception.

No understanding of Chinese Nuo culture, there is no way to understand the mask. To this day, Nuo culture and Nuo masks are still blossoming everywhere in China.

The fundamental use of Nuo masks are still used to sacrifice to the gods jumping ghosts, pestilence and epidemic. This is for the Chinese ancestors, can be said to be the most important thing in life.

In the "Zhou Li - Xiaguan" has this record: "Fang Xiangshi, four madmen. Fang Xiangshi. Palm masked bearskin, gold four eyes, Xuanjie Zhu dress, holding a go Yang shield, handsome hundred subordinates and when difficult (exorcism), to Suo room to drive away the epidemic; great mourning, the first pivot, and the tomb, into the expansion, to go to the four corners of the drive Fangliang (spirits and demons)."

This mask and the masks excavated at Jinsha are clearly related in some way. The Jinsha civilization was hundreds of years later than Sanxingdui, and these two are so close together. It would be natural to link the two together. But the artifacts unearthed at the two sites are very different.

And the most important significance of the excavation of this mask lies in linking the Sanxingdui and Jinsha cultures together, so that the Sanxingdui no longer stands abruptly by the Tuojiang River.

golden mask picture

Golden mask unearthed in Jinsha

Samsung heap unearthed gold mask

Samsung heap culture to go

Samsung heap culture at the end of the relics from the relics may have occurred a sudden change in the two buried pits of the unearthed bronzes may be an abnormal situation of the emergency response, or the hostile forces of the damage or destruction of the samsung heap cultural collapse type of rapid Slippage. At the same time, the Twelve Bridges site was rising rapidly in the vicinity of present-day Chengdu, and it is likely that a rapid shift in political power occurred in the Chengdu Plain at that time. The era of the Sanxingdui came to an end, and the Twelve Bridges Culture, with the Twelve Bridges and Jinsha Ruins as its main survivors, emerged. According to archaeologists, the Twelve Bridges Culture began and ended around the middle of the 12th century to the 6th century BC. From the archaeological excavations, the artifacts used in the Twelve Bridges culture are similar to those of the Sanxingdui culture, which indicates that the Twelve Bridges culture inherited some of the contents and elements of the Sanxingdui culture. All the way up to here, we can sort out a schematic diagram of the evolution of the cultural sources of the Chengdu Plain in this historical stage:

After the Twelve Bridges Culture faded away, what emerged in the Sichuan Basin was the Qingyanggong Culture, which lasted from the middle of the 5th century B.C.E. to the middle of the 2nd century B.C.E. The nodal event of this phase was the annexation of Ba Shu by the Qin in 316 BC, and the Sichuan Basin was directly incorporated into the political map of the Central Plains dynasty. Of course, culture has a certain degree of inertia relative to politics, rich in the cultural elements of the ancient Shu identity has been retained for some time, knowing that the establishment of the Han Empire Han Wudi development of the Southwest Barbarians, most of the elements of the culture of ancient Shu into the history of the subsequent.

However, this new discovery of the priest pit may be able to extend the Samsangdui site of the next time some more, so that the relationship between the two sites of Samsangdui and Jinsha will have to be re-examined.

The correct understanding of the Sanxingdui culture

Sanxingdui is a very local characteristics of the archaeological culture, due to some of the excavated ritual bronzes and the Chinese culture commonly used in the bronze ceremonial objects are different, in this era of entertainment to the death of the media only focus on eyeballs as an "alien civilization". But when we analyze the artifacts unearthed at Sanxingdui itself, we can see that Sanxingdui culture is still a regional culture under the "multi-dimensional" pattern of China's ancient period.

In the artifacts unearthed at the Sanxingdui site, we can see the influence of the local culture of Baoshu region, such as Baodun culture (seen in the early days of Sanxingdui culture), and we can also see the influence of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the eastern gorges of the Euxi Chuan (small flat-bottomed jars, bird's head handles spoons, rims, vases with necks, long-necked jugs), and also see the influence of the Central Plains culture (ceramics, sealing_, _, goblet, high handled beans, copper plaques, bronze bell, jade goads, jade jangs), and also see the influence of the central plains culture. , jade goblet, jade jang). From this level, the Sanxingdui people are not isolated, but with neighboring areas to produce a certain degree of cultural exchanges, and is not alone in the Chengdu Plain, "foreigners".