Why did Sanxingdui have an unearthed jade in every sacrifice pit?Jade is the core ritual in the sacrifice

Cover news reporter Zeng Jie

Sanxingdui was awake again, and the six newly discovered sacrifice pits brought people like a "blind box". Whether it is a jade seat full of animal noodles, bird patterns, human face patterns, and tree patterns, or the god tree pattern jade with the ancient "Tianyuan Place" cosmic view of the ancients, more and more jade articles are extracted, allowing people to appreciate The light of ancient Shu civilization.

Interestingly, on June 14, the turtle -back mesh -shaped mesh -shaped mesh -shaped mesh -shaped mesh -shaped mesh -shaped mesh of the "moonlight treasure box" and "barbecue racks" entered the cleaning stage. It is not known whether this jade is engraved with text or symbols or patterns, but these clues are of great significance to speculate on the Sanxingdui sacrifice ceremony.

Why does this "Moonlight Treasure Box" wrap a piece of jade? Why did the six new sacrifice pits newly discovered by Sanxingdui were unearthed more or less? On June 15th, Wang Fang, deputy curator and research librarian of the Chengdu Sands Site Museum, interpreted this in an interview with the cover journalist. In her opinion, the jade is the most important ritual in the sacrifice of the ancient Shu people. First, it is an important carrier for the ancient Shu people to communicate the gods of heaven and earth.

Mysterious brick -shaped jade unearthed from Sanxingdui

Sanxingdui Jade Ware

According to Wang Fang, the jade unearthed from Samsung Dou, as a whole, the materials are mainly local and basically the material. From the perspective of the production process, there is not much difference from other places, especially the jade unearthed from Sands.

Wang Fang is a research expert of jade wares. He has in -depth research on the jade articles of the ancient Shu people. He has visited Sichuan and surrounding areas many times and went to the jade mine for research. She further introduced that through the preliminary investigation of the distribution of jade material distribution in the Longmen Mountains in the northwest of the Chengdu Plain, and the preliminary observation and comparison of jade material specimens in other regions of China, most materials of ancient Shu jade were clearly different from others than others. Regional jade culture jade materials, except for a few of the ancient Shu jade articles in except for direct input from the outside area, most of the jade articles should be made from local materials and locally. Most of the materials are derived from the Longmen Mountains in the northwest of Chengdu Plain. Essence

The most distinctive jade articles of Sanxingdui are Jade, because in the sacrifice of Sanxingdui, Jade Hiroshi played a very core role. Wang Fang remembered that among the cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui, a bronze portrait was holding 璋 in his hand. This cultural relics reducing the scene of Sanxingdui people's sacrifice.

In ancient times, it was a symbol of status and status. It has the role of communicating heaven and earth, sacrificing mountains and rivers, and communicating gods. Although Yuzhang originated in Erlitou culture, with the movement of Erli, after the transmission of Yuzhang to Sichuan, it was promoted in Sanxingdui and the golden sandy, becoming the most important ceremony in sacrifice activities.

It is worth mentioning that the combination of Yu Ge and 璋 from the Central Plains was born, which was born of the creation of the ancient Shu people in the process of absorbing foreign culture.

King

Jade was unearthed in the sacrifice pit

At the news ventilation of the Sanxingdui site archeological excavation staged results, nearly 13,000 newly discovered sacrifice pits in Sanxingdui 6 newly discovered pits, including 3,155 relatively complete cultural relics. Cover news reporters observed an interesting phenomenon. The six newly discovered sacrifice pits were more or less unearthed: the most jade articles unearthed from the No. 3 pit, up to 207; 205 pieces of jade have been unearthed, and it is expected to live later; the No. 6 pit of the wooden box was unearthed, and a jade knife was also found.

There can be no bronze or ivory in the sacrifice pit of Sanxingdui. Why can it be unearthed? This phenomenon has also attracted the attention of Wang Fang.

During the 8,000 -year -old jade culture development process, ancient jade articles from as a psychic god to sacrifice ceremony, from the "God" to the "King" to the "person". Each period shows its own style.

Because of the scarcity of jade articles, it looks particularly distinguished in ancient society. The ancients used the God of God, the God of God, and the sacrifice of the gods. In Wang Fang's view, the unearthed jade artificially provides a certain basis for the attributes of Sanxingdui buried pits. At the same time, jade articles unearthed in eight sacrifice pits indicate that jade articles are essential in the sacrifice ceremony, and the importance is not the importance. Saying.

Grid

The most concerned about whether the jade is engraved or has text

The turtle -shaped mesh -shaped grid unearthed from pit No. 7 has attracted much attention because of its peculiar shape. It was ridiculed by netizens as "barbecue racks" and "Wahfu cake". Among the bronze wares that cross the shape, not only a piece of jade is wrapped, but the civilian officers also found gold utensils and silk fabrics on it.

Wang Fang said that this is the most concerned and anticipated piece of utensils she is most concerned about during the excavation process of Sanxingdui. This instrument that was found in the first archeological process was wrapped in complete jade, which made people unable to conjecture. What is this? what is the purpose? Why wrapped in jade?

Wang Fang's most curious is whether there are text on this jade?Are there any engraving?If there is text or patterns, what kind of thoughts are conveyed by the ancient Shu people?Although these problems may gradually find the answer with the development of cultural relics, Wang Fang tried to speculate that using such a complicated bronze grid to wrap a complete piece of jade, which shows that this jade is very precious."In addition, turtles are regarded as spiritual animals. They often appear in ancient sacrifice activities. The turtles were used by the ancients to divination. This turtle -shaped mesh bronze was covered with turtle -shaped jade.What is the purpose? Let's wait and see that this cultural relic must be very important for the ancient Shu ancestors. The process of discovery and discovery is the charm of archeology! "

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