At the scene of the Spring Festival Gala, Ran Honglin, director of the Sanxingdui Archaeological Research Institute of the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the famous actor Zhang Guoli released a bronze mask of Sanxingdui's "heavyweight" cultural relics to celebrate the Spring Festival with the people of the whole country.
Sanxingdui bronze large mask
Three thousand years at a glance!
Sanxingdui newly unearthed large masks were excavated in Pit 3
This large bronze mask that debuted at the Spring Festival Gala is 131 cm wide, 71 cm high, 66 cm deep, and weighs 131 pounds, which is the largest and well-preserved large bronze mask known to have been excavated from the Sanxingdui site. Its wide forehead, angular edges, smooth eyebrows, eyes, lips and other lines, all protruding from the face, thick and long eyebrows as a raised shape, the two sides of the mask up and down and in the front of the forehead in the square perforation, may be used for fixed purposes. The bronze mask is a typical artifact of the Sanxingdui culture, which has a history of more than 3,000 years, reflecting the understanding and thinking of the ancient Shu ancestors on the natural world and the world of gods and people.
Located in Guanghan City, Deyang, Sichuan Province, about 40 kilometers south of Chengdu City, sanxingdui ruins are one of the most important ancient sites in the pre-Qin period in southwest China. In 1986, the excavation of the First and Second "Sacrifice Pits" unearthed thousands of precious cultural relics such as bronze sacred trees, bronze da liren, bronze masks, and golden scepters, and the Sanxingdui site "woke up and shocked the world", attracting worldwide attention.
Sanxingdui bronze large mask excavation site
The shocking bronze mask on the spring evening not only makes people appreciate the brilliant and colorful bronze civilization, but also laments the profundity of Chinese civilization, but also further increases the public's strong interest in understanding archaeology, understanding archaeology, and drawing spiritual nourishment from archaeology.
Sanxingdui bronze large mask
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