China News Service, Chengdu, August 16 (Shan Peng and Zhang Lang) On the central axis of Chengdu, the Tianfu Overpass, which connects the new and old towns of Chengdu, stands quietly.

On the 16th, under the overpass, Li Ming, a citizen of Chengdu, used his mobile phone to photograph the sun bird pattern on the top of the overpass bridge and uploaded it to social networks to participate in the "discover the sun bird" casual photography activity.

　　On the same day, in order to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the golden sun bird of the Jinsha Site as a symbol of Chinese cultural heritage, the Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum launched the "Discover the Sun Bird" hand-to-hand photography activity, inviting the public to use the lens to record and share the sun god they see around. bird.

　　The gold ornaments of the sun god bird with a gold content of 94.2%, a thickness of only 0.2 mm, and a thin piece of paper are one of the most representative cultural relics of the Jinsha site.

2021 is the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the Jinsha Site.

Twenty years ago, the Jinsha site, which had been dusted for thousands of years, reappeared, which not only expanded the connotation and extension of the ancient Shu culture, but also found strong evidence for solving the mystery of the sudden demise of the Sanxingdui civilization.

　　On February 8, 2001, the Jinsha site was accidentally discovered at a construction site in Jinsha Village, the western suburb of Chengdu.

According to Zhu Zhangyi, the current director of the Jinsha Site Museum, the day after a large number of "special items" made of jade were discovered, Jiang Zhanghua, then deputy director of the Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, led researchers Zhu Zhangyi and Zhang Qing to rush early in the morning. Go to the scene of the cultural relic discovery in Jinsha Village.

The scene before him made Zhu Zhangyi unforgettable in his life: ivory scum was everywhere, and the surface of the soil was white flowers like white snow.

Archaeologists know well that in Sichuan, only the Sanxingdui site has seen massive use of ivory.

　　In the subsequent rescue excavations, thousands of gold, jade, copper, and stone tools were unearthed at the Jinsha site, as well as tons of ivory, thousands of wild boar tusks, antlers, etc., and even large-scale construction sites. , Sacrificial activity places, general residential areas and other important relics, with a distribution area of ​​5 square kilometers.

Subsequent studies have confirmed that the Jinsha Site was the capital of the Ancient Shu Kingdom, the ancient civilization center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River from the 12th century BC to the 7th century BC, and it is very likely to be another political, economic, and cultural center that emerged on the Chengdu Plain after the decline of the Sanxingdui civilization. .

　　This year, Sanxingdui has made new progress in archaeology: 6 newly discovered "sacrifice pits" successively unearthed more than 500 key cultural relics, including fragments of golden masks.

This provides a new direction for the research of Sanxingdui and Jinsha sites.

"The age of Sanxingdui No. 4 Pit is set from 3200 to 3000 years ago, and the age of the Jinsha Site is about 3200 years ago. From this perspective, the discovery of the new'sacrifice pit' and the future of more'sacrifice pits' The release of dating data will allow us to see the evolution process between Sanxingdui and Jinsha sites more clearly, as well as the similarities and differences in sacrifices between the two, so as to better understand the inheritance or continuation relationship between them. "Zheng Manli, deputy director of the Heritage Protection and Research Department of the Jinsha Site Museum, said.

　　“If the cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui show the splendor of the ancient Shu civilization, then the archaeological discoveries at the Jinsha site explain the continuation of the ancient Shu civilization." Huang Jianhua, a researcher at the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, believes that the Jinsha site did not appear after the Sanxingdui civilization was completely annihilated. In history, the two have coexisted for a period of time. "The age of Sanxingdui No. 2 Pit was the late Yin Ruins culture, and the Jinsha site was during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The two overlapped in time. In terms of scale, a large number of exquisite bronze figures were unearthed in Sanxingdui. However, the number of bronze statues unearthed at the Jinsha site is small and the scale is small, so it is speculated that Sanxingdui is the ancient city of the king of Shu, while Jinsha is the place where the general tribes are stationed; in addition, the straight-line distance between the two is relatively close, about 40 kilometers."

　　The discovery of the Jinsha site is of greater significance in supporting the development pattern of the pluralistic integration of Chinese civilization.

In Zhu Zhangyi's view, the ten-section jade cong, jade bi, and jade ge unearthed at the Jinsha site show that Jinsha culture is not isolated, and it is inextricably linked with the Central Plains culture in the Yellow River basin and the Liangzhu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. , Is an important part of Chinese civilization.

　　"Before the age of Sanxingdui and Jinsha sites, the Baodun culture also appeared in the Chengdu Plain. This fully shows the long history of the ancient Shu civilization. From the origin of Chinese civilization, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River are the cradles of Chinese civilization, and the civilizations of various places are interconnected. The Chinese civilization is pluralistic and integrated." Huang Jianhua said.

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