The Pengzhou gold and silver warehousing comparable to Sanxingdui and Laoguanshan is one of the major archaeological discoveries in Sichuan and the largest Song Dynasty gold and silver warehousing discovered in China so far. It is of great historical and artistic research value.
On June 7, the "Celebrity Lecture Hall" arrived as scheduled. Qi Dongfang, a famous archaeologist and professor of the School of Archaeology and Museology of Sichuan University, walked into the Alai study and shared the batch of "national treasures" in the Pengzhou Museum.
After the lecture, Professor Qi Dongfang, Xie Tao, director of the third department of excavation and research at the Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Wang Lang, a librarian of the Pengzhou Museum, attended the roundtable meeting. In this way, we will talk about the archaeological excavations and cultural relics protection of this batch of gold and silver artifacts in the Song Dynasty.
Why did a large number of Song Dynasty cellars unearthed in Sichuan?
In 1993, at an infrastructure construction site on West Street in Pengzhou City, 351 pieces of gold and silver artifacts from the Song Dynasty were unearthed, which shocked the world.
Why can Sichuan find so many gold and silver hoards?
Xie Tao revealed that when they wrote the archaeological report on the Pengzhou gold and silver warehousing, they did preliminary statistics on the hoards unearthed in Sichuan in recent years, and it was clear that there were at least 50 hoards in the Song Dynasty in Sichuan, and a large number of gold and silver wares were unearthed in these hoards , coins, porcelain, bronzes.
In the third year of Duanping in the Southern Song Dynasty (1236), the Mongolian troops were divided into three routes to attack the Song Dynasty. Among them, the Western Route Army captured Hanzhong from Dasanguan and entered Sichuan in the same year. It only took more than a month to enter Chengdu City. There are dozens of prefectures, and seven or eight are left behind.”
When disaster struck, people buried their valuable belongings one after another, which was the main reason for the emergence of cellars in the Song Dynasty.
What is the connection between Pengzhou cellaring and the Silk Road?
During the lecture, Professor Qi Dongfang introduced the exquisite cellar cultural relics unearthed in Pengzhou, including more than 90 tea saucers and a wide variety of wine vessels. Does this mean that Pengzhou cellars are closely related to the Silk Road?
Qi Dongfang said frankly that during the Tang and Song Dynasties, Sichuan's Mengding Mountain tea was famous all over the country. "The heart of the Yangtze River is the tea on the top of Mengshan Mountain." more than half.
Not only tea, Sichuan is also the most important silk producing area in the country. Shu brocade was very strong as early as the Han Dynasty. The loom unearthed from the Han tomb in Laoguanshan was restored and reproduced the "Five Stars Out of the East" brocade.
Xie Tao added that the brocade technology in the Han Dynasty was already perfect. In the Song Dynasty, the products were rich, and Shu brocade was especially famous. The brewing industry, printing industry, salt mining industry and other commodity economies were very prosperous, and social development had a great relationship with the prosperity of the Silk Road. .
In Qi Dongfang's view, the Silk Road is like an adjective to describe the interactive exchange of cultures.
This batch of cellared cultural relics has typical Chinese traditional cultural characteristics and has not been influenced by foreign cultures, which is due to the fact that Sichuan had a group of excellent craftsmen at that time.
How is Pengzhou cellaring no longer low-key?
Among the gold and silver wares unearthed in the Pengzhou cellar, there are as many as 115 first-class cultural relics. Therefore, the Pengzhou Museum has become the county-level museum with the most first-class cultural relics in the country.
How to maximize the value of these cultural relics and let more people know about these cultural relics sparked heated discussions among the experts present.
Wang Lang shared that the Pengzhou Museum has gradually participated in some outreach exhibitions in recent years, sending exquisite cultural relics to the Sansu Temple Museum and Suzhou Museum, and participating in the special exhibition of cultural relics of the Song Dynasty, attracting more people to understand the charm of the gold and silverware stored in Pengzhou.
In addition, the museum is also carrying out digital work, using 3D modeling and other technologies to gradually complete the digital collection of cultural relics, and it is expected to meet the audience in digital museums and online exhibitions in the future.
In Xie Tao's view, the digitization of cultural relics is the future trend. To make cultural relics come alive, not only the blessing of technology, but also the need to tell Chinese stories well, dig deep into the historical background, character relationships, and ins and outs behind the cultural relics, and use supporting cultural lectures, Cultural and creative products attract more people to pay attention to these cultural relics.
This proposal won the praise of Mr. Qi Dongfang. Looking back on his 40 years of archaeological work, he has a deep understanding of it. Artifacts will not speak by themselves, and archaeologists need to act as translators to convert historical information into easy-to-understand. The language tells the audience that at the same time, it is also necessary to act as an "intermediary" and build an "introducer" to communicate between the public and cultural relics, and such translation and introduction are based on profound academic research. , to tell the audience what the patterns on this utensil represent, why it is popular, and what historical value is behind it, just like the "National Treasure" program, telling the story of cultural relics is naturally popular."
West China Metropolis Daily-Cover reporter Zeng Jie photographed by Chen Yuxiao