Stunning appearance!
Sanxingdui bronze mask was officially exhibited for the first time
At the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger, the Sanxingdui bronze mask made a stunning appearance, attracting many audiences.
On February 15 (the Lantern Festival), the bronze mask was officially displayed for the first time in the Sanxingdui Museum Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Hall, and the Lantern Festival exhibition "Easter Eggs" was presented to the majority of tourists.
This bronze mask is 131cm wide, 71cm high, 66cm deep, and weighs 131 pounds. It has a wide forehead, exaggerated face, smooth eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, ears and other lines with clear edges and corners. It is a piece unearthed from the Sanxingdui site. The most complete, largest and best-preserved large bronze mask.
Lei Yu, the head of the Sanxingdui Site Workstation and the director of the Sanxingdui Museum, introduced that the large bronze mask was unearthed in the Sanxingdui Sacrificial Pit No. 3, and was buried in the south of the center of the pit. After careful cleaning, it finally came out.
"It has a lot of attachments on its right eye and other parts. For example, there are seashells under its nostrils, and there are many jade residues on the right eyeball. We were pleasantly surprised to find silk fabric residues on the right eyeball."
Lei Yu introduced, first of all, the large amount of large masks; secondly, the bronze mask of Sanxingdui itself is also a kind of artwork with the most individuality and aesthetic characteristics in the world at the same time; finally, the casting technology of large masks is also relatively complicated. It is the same as that in the Central Plains, and it is mainly a separate casting method.
"At present, we are studying that this mask has about 4 parts of separate casting, and then they are cast together. This casting technology comes from the Central Plains region of the Yellow River Basin, and its casting technology, including its core components, is almost the same as the Central Plains region. It also proves that our ancient Shu civilization is an inseparable part of Chinese civilization."
From now on, the bronze mask will officially meet the audience in the Sanxingdui Museum Cultural Relics Protection and Restoration Hall.
In the next step, the Sanxingdui Museum will also cooperate with the domestic first-class technical team to further carry out the restoration and research of cultural relics such as bronze masks, and through the production of excavation, restoration, introduction videos and other auxiliary display methods, more Sanxingdui cultural relics protection research results Share with the public, let the general public have a deeper understanding of Sanxingdui bronze culture, and appreciate the splendid and colorful ancient bronze civilization in China!
(Headquarters reporter Yang Ni Wang Yulong)