There are three different but developing archaeological cultures in Sanxingdui site, namely, the first-stage culture represented by Zhixia site group in Longshan era in Chengdu Plain, also known as "Baodun culture"; The second stage culture represented by the large ancient city of Sanxingdui in Shang Dynasty and the highly developed bronze civilization; The culture from the end of Shang Dynasty to the beginning of Western Zhou Dynasty, represented by Sanxingdui, is the "Twelve Bridges Culture" in Chengdu. In Shang Dynasty, Sanxingdui has developed into a highly developed center of bronze civilization, which is the heyday of Sanxingdui civilization, that is, the early Shu State.

Sanxingdui site is an ancient Shu cultural site from 4800 to 3100 years ago. The discovery of Sanxingdui ruins and cultural relics strongly proves the existence of the ancient Shu kingdom three or four thousand years ago and the diversity of the origin of Chinese civilization. Sanxingdui site is an important representative of the world bronze civilization from16th century BC to14th century BC, which is of great value for studying the process of early countries and the development of religious consciousness and occupies an important position in the history of human civilization. It is the largest capital city in the southwest of China, with a regional center position. Its discovery provided unique physical evidence for the disappearing ancient Shu State, and pushed forward the history of civilization in Sichuan for more than 2,000 years.

The Excavation Background of Sanxingdui Culture

The naming of Sanxingdui culture is based on many archaeological investigations and excavations from 1933 to 1980 and 198 1. Gehe in the Museum of West China University was first excavated from 1933, and scientific archaeological investigation and excavation were not carried out until after 1949. The Cultural Relics Management Committee of Sichuan Province and the History Department of Sichuan University conducted archaeological work in this area in May 1956, 1958, 1963, 1964 and 1980 respectively. At that time, the ancient site in this area was called Zhongxing Ancient Site.

From June 1980, June 1 1 to May 198 1, the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Management Committee, the Provincial Museum and the Guanghan County Cultural Center excavated in Sanxingdui, and obtained rich information. They found 18 housing base, 3 ash pits, 4 tombs and 65433 jade articles. The upper age limit is 4500 150 years ago, which generally lasts until about 3000 years, that is, from the late Neolithic age to the corresponding Xia and Shang Dynasties in the Central Plains.

architectural feature

Sanxingdui Site is located on the south bank of Yahe River in the northwest of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, China, 40km south of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, and 7km east of Guanghan City. This is a huge site group composed of many ancient cultural relics.

Sanxingdui site group is huge in scale and wide in scope. Most of the ancient cultural relics are distributed on the high platforms on the north and south banks of Mamu River on the south bank of Yahe River. The site group is irregularly trapezoidal in plane, with a width of 5-6 km from east to west and 2-3 km from north to south, with a total area of about 1.200 hectares. It is the largest and most important ancient cultural relic in Sichuan. There are more than 30 confirmed sites of ancient culture, among which Sanxingdui in the south, Moon Bay and Zhenwu Palace in the middle, Xiquankan in the north, Shiziyan in the east, Hengliangzi in the west, Rensheng Village and Dayan Village extending westward are the most important sites.

What does Sanxingdui mean?

Sanxingdui is actually Sanxingdui Town in Sichuan Province. Because several cultural relics have been found around here, this culture is called Sanxingdui culture. The name of Sanxingdui Town comes from the fact that there are three loess piles here in ancient times, and it also has the reputation of "three stars accompanying the moon". It has nothing to do with South Korea's Samsung Company. This is a real traditional cultural site in China.