For example, 9 bronze animal-faced statues were discovered in Sanxingdui Pit No. 2.
These statues all have long eyebrows, straight noses, huge eyes, and wide and long mouths.
The most special thing is the long horns on the side of its head and its pointed and drooping ears, which makes it look like a terrifying beast.
Some experts speculate that this is the mask worn by the ancient Shu people when they channeled spirits and prayed for "Nuo dance".
In ancient times, masks were called "masks".
There is a record in "Zhou Li·Xia Guan" that "the palms were covered with bear skin, the eyes were golden, the black clothes were red and the clothes were used to drive away the epidemic".
It is a tradition in the Central Plains to use masks to pray to spirits during sacrifices.
The human-faced and animal-faced statues in Sanxingdui are obviously also influenced by the Central Plains culture.
This is the benefit of being knowledgeable and talented. In the past year or so, Chen Wenzhe has not been copying works from famous kilns such as Ru Kiln every day.
It was impossible for him to work every day, so he spent more than a year either studying or making porcelain.
The process of learning is not only review, but also reading.
Especially during this period at sea, he spent more time reading.
Of course, writing a book also takes a lot of time.
Especially through review and reading, he needs to record everything.
After all, the full name of his precious cheating device seems to be Civilization Heritage System?
Many of the techniques he learned definitely need to be recorded. Even if it is not for inheritance, Chen Wenzhe always needs to sort out what he has gained.
Now, he no longer feels that it doesn't matter if the system is not systematic.
Now he knows that the word "system" is like giving a name to the treasure that he can accept based on his imagination.
For example, now, there are no tasks at all, and he is no longer asked to study anything specifically.
With the upgrade of Sui Hou's Pearl, this treasure seems to have really become an auxiliary item.
A treasure that can assist him to the extreme, a treasure that can make his wishes come true, and he can get enough information about whatever knowledge he wants to know.
Coupled with his excellent memory, he has really learned a lot in the past two years.
For example, if he takes a look at the cultural relics in Sanxingdui, he can find many related antiquities of a similar age.
Therefore, he is now a qualified historian and archaeologist.
It would definitely be appropriate if he were asked to study the origins of Chinese civilization, or even to date the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.
Unfortunately, he has no interest in doing research, he is only interested in collecting.
This time when he came to the museum, Li Jinli and the others gave him a huge surprise.
It turned out that the antique porcelain he couldn't obtain had to be copied by himself.
Now he has realized that he can actually copy not only porcelain, but also bronze, gold, silver, and jade. He also has the ability to copy stoneware.
After all, he knew that there were too many treasures he wanted to get.
How heartbreaking is it to know and understand the situation but not get it?
In fact, he should have thought of it the first time he saw the national treasures all over the city.
If you can’t get the real thing, it’s a good idea to make a high imitation and put it at home for fun.
Nowadays, in addition to bronzes, porcelain, jade and stoneware are also included in the national treasures.
When he has time, he will first collect a large number of good jade stones, and then he can imitate whatever he wants.
For example, he has several beauties from the Tang Dynasty.
With the addition of Jade Dragon and so on, this can be considered a big series.
Unfortunately, he is unlikely to obtain truly top-notch ancient jade.
Even if he could get it, it would definitely be through illegal channels. At his current level, there is no need to do such a thing again.
Speaking of beauties, Chen Wenzhe began to think back again.
Because compared to the slightly exaggerated jade figures of the Tang Dynasty, the Sanxingdui portraits are more exaggerated.
The most unearthed jade figures seem to be cultural sites in various river basins.
For example, in the Hongshan Culture and other cultural sites mentioned thousands of times, jade works have been found in almost all of them.
Of course, among these beauties, the many features of the Sanxingdui portraits are the most conspicuous.
This is not to say that the Sanxingdui figures are the most special, because they have also been found in other cultural sites.
For example, there are many discoveries on the heads of jade figures from the late Shijiahe Culture.
In particular, specific features such as the ears of the Sanxingdui figures have a clear inheritance relationship with the jade heads of the Shijiahe Culture and the stone carving heads of the Shimao Culture, and they all express the meaning of the divine ancestors.
This is actually very interesting, because in it, Chen Wenzhe saw some elements of other ethnic groups.
Therefore, Sanxingdui culture may also contain some elements of Central Asian and West Asian civilizations.
This is also conceivable, after all, the Sichuandu Plain is located at the hub of cultural exchanges between China and the West.
The background of Zhang Qian's "digging through the Western Regions" in the Han Dynasty was the discovery of specialties such as Shu cloth, wolfberry sauce, and Qiong bamboo sticks sold from Shu to Insan and Central Asia, which led Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to open up the "Silk Road" feat.
What's more, as early as four to five thousand years ago, the wave of bronze culture led by West Asia and Central Asia was introduced to the Central Plains through Xinjiang and Mongolia.
Therefore, this kind of exchange and communication between the ancient Sichuan capital plain adjacent to the Xinjiang province and the outside world should have existed for a long time.
However, the current archaeological data are not enough to form evidence of this chain of cultural transmission and exchange.
And this is Chen Wenzhe's opportunity, because he can see the activities and even the life trajectory of the ancient Shu people at that time through the cultural relics discovered in Sanxingdui.
Now Chen Wenzhe already knows that the Sanxingdui Culture was originally in the Sichuan Plain, only distributed around the central site of Sanxingdui, and basically did not leave the Tuojiang River Basin.
After that, it expanded southward, and by the third phase, that is, the middle Shang Dynasty, or slightly later, it had been distributed to the Sichuan City area in the Minjiang River Basin.
But during this period, the number of discovered sites was smaller.
By the fourth period, from the late Shang Dynasty to the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the distribution range expanded slightly.
During this period, the number of ruins also increased significantly, and two centers emerged, Sanxingdui and Chengdu.
The Sanxingdui culture has a narrow distribution range, which shows that although its bronze and gold manufacturing technology has reached a certain level, its political, economic and cultural strength still lags far behind that of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
Therefore, it is natural that it surrendered to Shang and Zhou successively.
After the decline of the Shijiahe culture in 2000 BC, five or six hundred years later, the Jianghan area once again entered a period of prosperity during the early Shang Dynasty.
The large-scale entry of early Shang people contributed to the rise of the Early Shang Bronze Cultural Center in Panlongcheng, Wu City.
The early Shang culture had a profound impact on the culture of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, including the Ganjiang River Basin, the Xiangjiang River Basin and the Sichuan Basin.
During the Baodun Culture period from 2500 BC to 1700 BC, there were no signs of bronze casting in the Sichuan Basin.
Although in the middle stage of the Sanxingdui Culture, bronze medal decorations that may have a certain relationship with the Erlitouxia Culture were discovered, there are basically no other bronzes from the same period.
This can be considered as the bronze culture had not really developed at that time.