The word "嘗Bur" is also called "痗薶". This is one of the ancient rituals of offering sacrifices to the ground. It actually means burial.
However, before the burial, a final burning ceremony was held, which actually meant the destruction of the weapon.
This is why most of the artifacts in the sacrificial pits in Sanxingdui we see today have traces of being burned or beaten.
Rather than being destroyed by others, it is better for us to destroy ourselves, that's what it means.
Now Chen Wenzhe has a comprehensive understanding of Sanxingdui, especially the unearthed cultural relics. He even knows what these things are used for!
He knows this better than the researchers at the Sanxingdui Research Institute.
Those people still relied on blind guesses, but he directly saw the usage scene.
"Huh? This is Chaping Mountain? It should be Longmen Mountain or Yulei Mountain, right? This is Jian Mountain? Shenxian Ridge is a landmark!"
Looking back this time, the scene I saw was very familiar, because these places are very famous.
Of course, it is not only famous, but also mainly because Chen Wenzhe knows that the kings of Shu, Cancong and Yufu, were all "deified into immortals" in Naoshan Mountain.
Jianshan Mountain is Chaping Mountain located on the western edge of the present-day Sichuandu Plain. It is actually connected with Longmen Mountain and Yulei Mountain, and is the origin of the Jianjiang River.
The Jianjiang River is one of the three major tributaries in the upper reaches of the Tuojiang River. It is called the Jianjiang River from the Pengzhou Pass.
The following plains are divided into "Jianjiang Nine Rivers", including the Duck River flowing through the north of Sanxingdui Ancient City, the Mamu River passing through the city, etc.
Chaping Mountain, the birthplace of the Jianjiang River, has been considered the place where "immortals" live since ancient times, and it is still called "immortal ridge" by the locals.
If it were before, Chen Wenzhe might not necessarily know all of this.
However, Sanxingdui is so famous that I saw so many imitation bronzes of Sanxingdui.
So, he really understood a lot.
When he visited the Sanxingdui Bronze Ware before, he saw the introduction. The route that the Yufu King took to Jianshan to be deified was clearly marked.
It starts from the Sanxingdui ruins and follows the current Duck River-Mamu River-Xiaoshi River from east to west to reach the pass.
From there, it passes through Tianpengque with two mountains and a river, and then along the Jianjiang River from south to north to the foothills of Longmen Mountain.
After that, it enters Longmen Mountain from southwest to northeast and the wide Mianjiang River Valley to the east.
Finally, climb up the Shuo River and climb to the destination of Shenxian Ridge, which is more than 4,700 meters above sea level.
This is a landmark building. As long as you take one look at it, Chen Wenzhe will never mistake it.
Today's Tianpeng Que in Peng County is located at the transfer station. It is very easy to identify because of the two mountains facing each other and the difficult terrain.
And because of this terrain, this place became the east-north-south turning point of Yufu King's "Road to Immortality" and the so-called dividing line between the human world and the world of ghosts and gods.
The river valley in the east of Longmen Shandong is a fishing, hunting and gathering area where the "humanized people" depend on for survival, while the high mountains and ridges are an ideal place for self-cultivation and immortality.
After the Yufu King led his people into the Jian Mountain to be "deified", some of the Yufu people were left behind to migrate eastward.
Later, in the Sichuandu area, the Twelve Bridges Culture with obvious characteristics of the Sanxingdui Culture was formed;
Another part went north, passed through Hanzhong City, and entered the Baoji area of present-day Western Shaanxi.
They established a country during the Western Zhou Dynasty, and now a cemetery of this country has been found in Rujiazhuang, Baoji, and even has inscriptions.
It seems to be from the bow, from the fish, which means to shoot the fish.
In addition, a bronze standing figure similar to Sanxingdui was also found, which indicates that the two are probably related.
In that area, especially in the ancient tombs discovered previously, many cultural relics have been unearthed, the most representative of which is a bronze fish statue.
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This fish-shaped statue from the Western Zhou Dynasty is 15 cm high, 28 cm long and weighs 1.1 kg.
The body of the fish Zun is fat and hollow, the mouth is slightly open, and there is a small perforation in the lower lip.
The fish has full gills, a square mouth at the dorsal fin, and an arched square cover on the mouth.
The dorsal fin of the fish is used as a square cover to catch the hand, which shows the unique ingenuity of the ancients.
In order to attach the fish body, there are four human-shaped legs under the belly of the fish, with their backs facing each other and their hands holding the belly as if to bear weight.
Three of the four little figures have their mouths wide open, their eyes wide open, and their hair growing on their heads;
The other little boy had his mouth closed tightly and his head was hairless.
Four little people with exaggerated expressions are used as the base of the fish statue, which is vivid and full of interest.
The whole body of the fish statue is fully decorated with withered scale patterns, and the two gills are each decorated with a set of simplified curved patterns to distinguish it from the body of the fish.
The two sides of the button cover are each decorated with a complete set of fish patterns. The edges of the square cover are each decorated with a dragon pattern. The dragon heads meet at the front of the button cover.
The decoration of the fish statue is simple but not complicated, accurate and precise.
This treasure is now in the Baoji Bronze Museum. It is a bronze that combines Sanxingdui ancient Shu culture and Central Plains culture.
Many things like this were later unearthed.
Not to mention other things, just Shu Ge, there are quite a few.
For example, a bronze triangular aid from the late Shang Dynasty was unearthed in Chenggu.
This kind of Yuan Ge, which is an isosceles triangle in appearance, is also called "Shu Ge". It is mostly distributed in Shu and Hanzhong areas, especially in Shu, and is extremely rare in the Central Plains.
This may be the material relic of King Wen of Zhou's "conquering Shu" and "conquering Shu", the ancient Shu people surrendered to the Zhou Dynasty, and the exchanges between the two sides.
It may contain a large amount of cultural information about the ancient Shu people who migrated north.
After the "deification" of the Yufu Kingdom in ancient Shu disappeared, the Yufu survivors were able to go north to establish a country, probably due to the influence of the migration of these ancestors.
This ancient country is located at the northern end of the Qin-Shu ancient road "Chencang Road", and Chenggu is located at the hub of the ancient road.
This ancient country was most likely built by the survivors of the Sanxingdui ancient country after they migrated from Chenggu.
According to the existing archaeological data, in addition to inheriting the local Baodun cultural factors, the early Sanxingdui culture also absorbed a large number of other foreign cultural factors.
Such as the Xia and Shang culture in the Central Plains, the late Shijiahe culture in the Jianghan Plain, and the Shimao culture in northern Shaanxi, etc.
From November 2019 to May 2020, when archaeologists excavated the Sanxingdui site, they unearthed a 1.15-meter-tall bronze figure with both hands on top of the statue in Sacrificial Pit No. 3.
Similar bronze statues have been unearthed in the past, but perhaps because they were small and inconspicuous, they did not attract people's attention.
This bronze figure represents the image of the worshiper in a sacrificial scene.
The use of precious objects like the bronze statue on the head as a sacrificial vessel embodies the ritual system of Xia and Shang culture.
Bronze statues similar to the production techniques and shapes of Central Plains bronzes have also been unearthed in Sanxingdui Sacrifice Pit No. 1 and 2.
There are also bronze medallions inlaid with turquoise similar to those of the Erlitouxia Culture of the Central Plains, indicating that the bronze culture of the Central Plains had a significant impact on the formation and development of the Sanxingdui Culture.
This is also consistent with the traditional cultural content of the Central Plains such as the mythological content of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" reflected in the above-mentioned bronze sacred trees.
All of this shows that our culture is connected with our hometown, influences each other, and is inherited from the same origin!