The Sanxingdui site, discovered in Deyang City, Sichuan Province, is known as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of mankind in the 20th century. After the discovery of Sanxingdui in 1929, the mainland cultural relics department continued to carry out new archaeological excavations of the Sanxingdui site. In early July 2020, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology announced the news: the local archaeological team found important sites around Sanxingdui, and many Neolithic cultural relics from 3000 to 4000 years ago were unearthed in this site, including a pottery pig that detonated the Internet, and even many netizens saw this pottery pig and thought that the United States had infringed the copyright, and they had to pay the corresponding fees to China.
According to the information in my possession, in October 2019, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, together with the Deyang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Guanghan Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics Management, conducted rescue archaeological excavations on the sites around Sanxingdui. The excavation area reached 7,000 square meters, as of the end of June 2020, nearly 4,500 square meters of excavations have been completed, and a large number of relics from the Neolithic, Shangzhou, Qin, Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties, Ming and Qing dynasties have been found, and thousands of relics such as ash pit tombs and kiln sites in various periods have been revealed, and a large number of pottery, porcelain and stone tools have also been excavated. Although excavations are still underway, important cultural relics such as pottery pieces have been unearthed at the site.
After about a month of intense excavation work, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology released such a news on July 29, 2020 Beijing time: the ancient ruins excavated by a group of joint villages in Nanfeng Town, Guanghan City, should be the Sanxingdui branch. From the geographical point of view, the joint site is no more than 8 kilometers away from the sanxingdui ancient city site, and a large number of Neolithic cultural relics have been excavated, which is not much different from the sanxingdui site. Among them, several cultural relics have attracted the attention of netizens, and there is a pottery pig that is about 3200 years ago, because of its special appearance, it is also on the popular search list.
This is a pottery pig produced in the Sanxingdui Phase 4 cultural period, which has a history of more than 3,000 years. From the appearance, the object is oval, like a conch, and there is a small bump on the top of the object. Since this object has just been excavated from the ground, archaeologists have not yet had time to study it in depth, so it is still unclear what this pottery pig is for. From the appearance of this object, the facial features are more abstract, and the combination is particularly cute. There are many friends who like to play online games and recognize them at a glance. This 3,200-year-old pottery pig is particularly similar to the animal image in a game in the United States.
This game is believed that many people have played, the name is called Angry Birds, this pottery pig and the image of the piglet in it are almost exactly the same, but the color is somewhat different. Therefore, many netizens feel that the founding culture of the United States is not more than 300 years old, and the image of the game is that of this pottery pig that copied the Sanxingdui culture, and the American game company needs to pay the corresponding copyright fees to the Sichuan Archaeological Research Institute. However, these are all jokes from netizens, after all, this pottery pig was only unearthed in July 2020. Previously, even our Chinese did not know that there was such a special cultural relic in the Sanxingdui culture, then Americans certainly had no way of knowing.
Joke by joke, this excavation has yielded fruitful results, from cultural relics from 3,000 to 4,000 years ago to ancient sites in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Through the excavations of these village sites and funerary items, archaeologists can also deduce the relationship between the Sanxingdui site and the joint site, thus deriving traces of human life and migration in the Sichuan Plain a thousand years ago. Everyone should note that the cultural relics excavated from ancient sites such as Sanxingdui and Longshan culture may not be too valuable in themselves, but these cultural relics can provide archaeology and literature and history experts with a large number of materials to study the lives of ancient humans, which is priceless.
By studying the details of the lives of ancient humans, we can also explore the development and origin of Chinese culture. Therefore, some of the cultural relics excavated from the Sanxingdui site are not too valuable in themselves, and many Chinese and foreign scholars have derived the Sanxingdui culture through the study of the Sanxingdui site. The Sanxingdui site is also an important representative of the world's bronze civilization, which is extremely important for the study of the religious consciousness of early ancient tribes and the development of human beings. For example, archaeologists can judge the use of this pottery pig, and for what purpose the ancients made this object to infer the religious culture at that time, as well as the details of life, thus forming a cultural research topic with the region as the central unit, and also pushing forward the history of civilization in Sichuan again, hoping that the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology can crack the real use of this pottery pig as soon as possible.
Reference: Sichuan Online