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How did the farmers who used to "dig" cultural relics in Sanxingdui find them?
Recently, archaeologists in China have developed and excavated the Sanxingdui site in Sichuan, which once again attracted widespread attention. The discovery of Sanxingdui originated from a farmer in Guanghan, Sichuan in 1929. His name is Yan Daocheng. When he was digging a ditch in the ground, he found a jade pit. It is because of the discovery of farmer's uncle that we understand the existence of Sanxingdui civilization.

What is the discovery process of Sanxingdui?

1929 In a piece of land in the northwest of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, Yan Daocheng, a farmer at that time, accidentally discovered a pit of jade tools while digging ditches. This is the 1 major discovery of Sanxingdui. Archaeologists at that time did not notice this and thought it was just an ordinary tomb.

Until 1980 to 198 1, archaeologists excavated here again and found a large number of exquisite cultural relics, hence the name of Sanxingdui culture and its spread.

1988, Sanxingdui site was officially recognized as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

For the excavation of Sanxingdui, a large number of exquisite cultural relics were unearthed in the 20-year excavation work at the end of last century. Since then, Sanyingdui civilization has established an important position in Chinese civilization.

By the middle of March, 20021year, archaeologists in China had restarted the excavation of Sanxingdui, and nearly 500 exquisite antiquities were unearthed, including an ivory weighing 500 Jin and a gold mask weighing nearly 500 grams, which had high cultural value.

What is the historical value of Sanxingdui site?

The discovery of Sanxingdui site has filled a lot of historical gaps in the history of ancient literature, bronzes and aesthetics in China. Let the whole world re-examine Chinese civilization and its achievements again.

The excavation of Sanxingdui civilization has also changed again, and the understanding of Bashu culture in historians has also changed. Historically, the ancient Bashu area has always been regarded as a closed place relative to the Central Plains, with little contact and communication with the Central Plains civilization. However, judging from many bronzes unearthed in Sanxingdui, Sanxingdui actually has a very important connection with the civilization in the Central Plains.

The discovery of Sanxingdui civilization once again verified the existence of the ancient Shu kingdom, and pushed forward the history of the ancient Shu kingdom for about 5000 years. It shows us that the ancient Sichuan region also belongs to the important cultural center of Chinese civilization.

The discovery of Sanxingdui civilization also has a new understanding of the birthplace of the Chinese nation, which proves that both the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin are the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, and their cultural achievements are no less than those of the Yellow River Basin.