The Kneeling Portrait of Sanxingdui Dingzun and the Bronze God Beast Crossing the Pit Successfully "Fit"

　　China News Agency, Chengdu, January 2 (Reporter Yue Yitong) The reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology on the evening of the 1st that the kneeling figure unearthed from No. The pairing is successful, and they "fit" again through thousands of years.

　　It is understood that both cultural relics were unearthed during a new round of sacrificial pit excavations at the Sanxingdui site.

Among them, the kneeling portrait of Ding Zun has a strange shape, which once attracted widespread attention.

The cultural relic portrait is in a kneeling state, with hands crossed and closed, as if holding objects in hands, and as if saluting. On the head is a bronze statue with dragon-shaped ornaments, which is 1.15 meters high.

This large-scale bronze artwork that combines human beings and statues is the first discovery in the world.

　　The bronze beast is more than 1 meter long and weighs nearly 300 kilograms. It is the largest mythical beast unearthed from the Sanxingdui site so far.

The mythical beast has a big head, a thin waist, and four hooves with ornamentation. It is considered to be the image obtained by mixing various animal images.

　　Xie Zhenbin, chief engineer of the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that these two artifacts can not only reflect the diversity of Chinese civilization, but also show the imagination and creativity of the ancient Shu people.

"For example, the statue on the top of the bronze statue is an element of the civilization of the Central Plains. The combination of the bronze statue and the kneeling portrait has not been found in other civilizations. So it can reflect the imagination and creativity of the ancient Shu people. Creativity can also reflect the communication between the ancient Shu civilization and the Central Plains civilization.”

　　According to Xie Zhenbin, although the three-dimensional images of the "fit" of the two artifacts have been released, the two cultural relics have only completed the cleaning work and have not yet been formally restored.

"Because there may be other things that can be combined with it in the future, we have to wait until the unearthed artifacts are cleaned up to see if the cultural relics in the same pit can be matched, and then we can see whether cross-pit matching and restoration work can be carried out. "(use up)