The discovery of Sanxingdui site began in the spring of 1929, when local farmers Yan Daocheng and his son accidentally discovered a jade stone pit, including reeds, walls, inkstones, jade rings and stone beads, with more than 300 pieces. 193 1 in the spring of, the British missionary Dong found the local garrison to assist in the protection and investigation, and also handed over the collected jade and stone tools to the Museum of West China University for safekeeping. According to the clue provided by Dong, Ge, curator of the Museum of West China University, and Lin Mingjun, assistant, formed an archaeological team in the spring of 1934, and conducted a ten-day excavation near the jade found by Yan. Rich excavation, * * unearthed more than 600 pieces of cultural relics, which were later collected by the Museum of West China University. The results of this archaeological excavation were compiled by Ge into Hanzhou Excavation Briefing, which was published in Huaxi Frontier Monthly of 1936. This paper named these unearthed cultural relics "Guanghan culture".

Sanxingdui Ancient Site is located in the south bank of Yahe River in the northwest of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, with a distribution area of 12 square kilometers. It has a history of 5000 to 3000 years. It is the largest, longest-lasting and richest cultural site in southwest China so far. The east, west and south walls and the inner wall of Moon Bay are best preserved. Sanxingdui site is regarded as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, which shows that the Yangtze River basin, like the Yellow River basin, belongs to the matrix of Chinese civilization and is known as the "source of Yangtze River civilization".

Among them, the unearthed cultural relics are precious human cultural heritage, and among the cultural relics in China, they are one of the most historical, scientific, cultural, artistic and ornamental cultural relics. Among these ancient Shu treasures, there are bronze giants with a height of 2.62 meters, bronze masks with a width of 1.38 meters and bronze sacred trees with a height of 3.95 meters, all of which are unique. The gold ware represented by the golden staff, the jade and stone tools represented by the decorative edge Zhang are also rare treasures that have never been seen before.