In Chengdu China tour videos sightseeing, Sanxingdui Museum, also known as Three-Star Piles Museum is a hot destination, which is situated northeast of Sanxingdu archeological site, west of the famous cultural city of Guanghan, on the bank of Jian River (usually known as Yazi River), 40 kilometers (approximately 24.9 miles) north of Chengdu City.
This relic area extents for about 12 square kilometers (around 4.6 square miles), making it the oldest, largest, and most connotational Shu cultural relic in Sichuan. Legend has it that the Heavenly Emperor cast down three handfuls of earth which fell near the Jian River, turning into three earth mounds on Chengdu Plain. The three earth piles, were depicted as three golden stars in a line, hence the name Sanxingdui. Affirmed by modern archaeology, the three earth mounds of Sanxingdui Relic are in fact the southern wall of an ancient city built with earth. There are two breaches in the city wall, with time passing by, after several time's collapse and subsequent erosion, presenting the appearance of three mounds we see today.
The discovery of the Sanxingdui Relic was accidentally, it is in the spring of 1929, when a peasant found a piece of bright-colored jade whilst digging ditch. That was the catalyst to the discovery of the mysterious ancient kingdom, from then on, 400 jade items were successivly excavated.
Later, from 1933, systematic excavations of archeological work in Sanxingdui Relic spans for half a century. The relics excavated proved the development of culture from late Neolithic Age (7000 BC-5000 BC) through to the late Shang (16th - 11th century BC) and to the early Zhou Period (11th century BC - 711 BC).
Sanxingdui Relic last minute China travel deals was estimated even of possibility to be the capital of ancient Shu since it has a history of more than 3,000 years. With the discovery of Sanxingdui, the veil of Shu was finally uncovered and the blankness of bronze culture in Chinese archaeological history was lastly padded. In the following decades, several generations of archaeologists worked in succession on the Sanxingdui site and they accquired a lot. Among all their findings, the two sacrificial pits found in 1986 is the most striking.
In the end, more than 1000 cultural relics were unearthed, including a golden veiled head portrait, which is a 260-centimeter (around 102.4 inches) tall and 180-kilogram (around 396.8 pounds) bronze figure, a 142-centimeter (around 55.9 inches) long and 500-gram (around 31drams) golden staff, and also a big bronze mask with more than 10 centimeters (around 3.9 inches) bulging pupils, a big Yuzhang (a kind of jade adornment of the leader of a tribe, the symbol of power) and two ears spaced at 168 centimeters (around 66.1 inches). Of all these cultural relics, some are apotheosized and mysterious, some are realistic, and some are of primitive simplicity but all of them are quite impressive, even aroused worldwide attention.
Sanxingdui is a cultural relic of ancient Sichuan China Sichuan Tours, called Shu then, the excavation of which greatly changed people's understanding of ancient history and culture. Want to visit a place to know more about Chinese Shu (Sichuan) culture, do not miss it, for the civilization revealed by the cultural relics can really be called a wonder.
The discovery of Sanxingdui Relic is heart-stirring though some cultural relics remain mysterious.The unearthed cultural relics have affirmed ancient Shu is no less developed than the Central Plain and to some degree, it can also be regarded as the most representative cradle of Chinese civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. In a word, Sanxingdui Relic is an indispensable factor to grasp the development of history and culture in Sichuan, and even the southwest area of China as a whole. Some cultural relics can not be named as the archaeologists have never seen their ilk before, which also add some mysterious color to Sanxingdui.
The exhibition area encompasses around 4,000 square meters (nearly 1 acre), opened to the public since October 1997. It is an archeological museum while at the same time, there are quite a lot excellent modern facilities. Most of the cultural relics you can see in the museum were excavated from the Sanxingdui site, thus to know more about Sanxingdui site can certainly help to know more about the museum.
So as to better keep and exhibit the cultural relics, the museum is divided into four sections, each of the four sections has its own theme. Totally, there are over 1000 pieces of cultural relics from Sanxingdui Relic and the two sacrificial pits of Shang Period, including gold plate, bronze ware, jade articles, pottery and ivory.
All in all, it is a good place to master the history of Shu and also an area to experience the profound culture of Chengdu, China.
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