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Aya Shawn
Living in Singapore, professional investorApr 11
Sanxingdui
is a modern place name, the name means "three mounds"
The place where the ruins were found was a wasteland with three mounds, so the locals called it "Sanxingdui"
name is obviously a modern one, so there cannot be "Sanxingdui" in the historical records of xia, Shang and Zhou. This should be easy to understand
Sanxingdui Ruins is an ancient site. In this site, there are traces of human activities for a long time. In fact, the lowest layer of ruins belongs to the Neolithic Age, dating back 5,000 years ago, while the largest layer of ruins dates back to about 3,500 years ago. Belongs to the same period as the Shang Dynasty.

三星堆
是一个现代地名,意思是“三个土丘”
遗址发现的地方是一片荒地,有三个土丘,当地人称之为“三星堆”
这个名字显然是现代的,所以夏商周的史籍中不可能有“三星堆”。这个应该很容易理解。
三星堆遗址是一个古老的遗址,在这个遗址里,很早就有人类活动的痕迹,其实最底层的遗址属于新石器时代,距今5000多年,而最顶层的遗址则可追溯到约3500年前,与商朝属于同一时期。


Left: Bronze kettle from the Shang Dynasty
Right: Bronze kettle from Sanxingdui

左:商代青铜壶
右:三星堆青铜壶

It is clear that this is an ancient tribe, having existed for more than a thousand years in total. At the end of his civilization, he had close ties with the Shang dynasty in the east.
Among the cultural relics unearthed at Sanxingdui, in addition to the unique bronze masks and bronze sacred trees, there are many cultural relics very similar to those of the Shang Dynasty, and there are also some similar cultural relics to other southern civilizations at that time. Therefore, Sanxingdui was not an independent civilization. It had close ties with other civilizations on mainland China at that time.
Since no writing was found at the Sanxingdui site, archaeologists are unable to determine his real name, so the "Sanxingdui site" is currently named after the place where it was found.
However, judging from its geographical location, time and cultural relic characteristics, it is very likely that the Sanxingdui civilization was recorded in the oracle bone inscxtions of the Shang Dynasty: Shu Kingdom
In the oracle bones library of the Shang Dynasty, Shu is recorded as one of its many servant states. When the Shang Dynasty collapsed, Shu joined the camp against him, and his army joined the Zhou Dynasty in overthrowing the Shang Dynasty.
Of course, there are many unreasonable phenomena in the distribution of cultural relics in Sanxingdui. Historians have other theories.

显然,这是一个古老的部族,存在时间总计超过一千年,在其文明末期,与东方的商朝有着密切的联系。
三星堆出土的文物中,除了独特的青铜面具、青铜神树等,还有不少与商代极为相似的文物,也有与当时其他南方文明相似的文物,因此三星堆并不是一个独立的文明,它与当时中国大陆的其他文明有着密切的联系。
由于三星堆遗址未发现任何文字,考古学家无法确定他的真实名字,所以目前“三星堆遗址”以发现地命名。
但从其地理位置、时代、文物特征等来看,三星堆文明很有可能是商代甲骨文中记载的:蜀国
在商朝的甲骨文库中,蜀国被记载为商朝众多的附庸国之一。商朝灭亡后,蜀国加入了反商阵营,蜀国的军队也加入周朝,推翻了商朝。
当然,三星堆的文物分布也存在很多不合理的现象,历史学家也有其他的说法。


Left: Jade cong from Sanxingdui Civilization
Right: Jade cong from the Liangzhu Civilization in the south

左:三星堆文明的玉琮
右:南方良渚文明的玉琮

For example, some historians have discovered that although the remains of human life at the Sanxingdui site are very ancient, they are very crude. No huge palaces, mausoleums, or city ruins were discovered. All traces and evidence of human activities prove that this place seems to be just a small tribe.
But in this simple ruins, several huge sacrificial pits were discovered, filled with massive amounts of bronze, jade and ivory. These things are obviously not something that can be made in this simple tribal ruins.
According to the general principles of human civilization, when you find a large number of bronzes, irons, or pottery in an ancient site, you will have a high probability of discovering the places, materials, and waste where these things were made. But Sanxingdui found none of this.
All high-end human creations seemed to have fallen from the sky and been buried there.
Therefore, an additional guess also exists. A Chinese history professor told me about another guess:

比如,有历史学家发现,三星堆遗址的人类生活遗迹虽然很古老,但却十分简陋,几乎没有发现任何巨大的宫殿、陵墓、城址,一切人类活动的痕迹和证据都证明,这里似乎只是一个小部落。
但就在这片简陋的遗址中,却发现了数个巨大的祭祀坑,坑内装满了大量的青铜、玉石和象牙,这些东西显然不是在这片简陋的部落遗址中能够制作出来的。
按照人类文明的一般规律,当你在一个古遗址发现大量的青铜器、铁器或者陶器时,有很大的概率会发现这些东西的制作地点、制作材料和遗留物,但三星堆什么都没有发现。
这些人类的高端创造物仿佛都从天上掉下来并埋葬在那里。
因此,还有许多额外的猜测。一位中国历史教授告诉我另一个猜测:


Left: Jade sacrificial obxts from the Sanxingdui Civilization
Right: Sacrificial obxts from the Erlitou Civilization
Erlitou is considered to be a city ruins from the xia Dynasty

左:三星堆文明的玉制祭祀器
右:二里头文明的祭祀用品
二里头被认为是夏代城市遗址

Sanxingdui is just a backward tribe, and a large number of high-level cultural relics found in Sanxingdui actually come from another more advanced civilization: xia
Yes, xia was the first dynasty in Chinese history. According to Chinese historical records, xia was founded in 2040 BC. After xia was defeated by Shang, its royal family was not wiped out. The Shang Dynasty allowed the xia royal family to continue to exist as common people, and they migrated to other places. But where they went, history has no record.
There is such a hypothesis that after xia's defeat, its royal family migrated with a large number of royal sacrificial supplies, and finally came to the tribe where Sanxingdui was located, and settled down again here. In order to prevent their massive wealth from being coveted by their enemies, they buried all these things underground, hoping that they would have the opportunity to regain their country in the future.
However, they never opened this treasure again until 3,500 years later.

三星堆只是一个落后的部族,三星堆发现的大量高级文物其实来自另一个更先进的文明:夏
是的,夏是中国历史上第一个王朝。根据中国史书记载,夏建国于公元前2040年。夏被商灭后,其王室并未被消灭。商朝允许夏王室继续以平民身份存在,他们则迁徙到其他地方。但他们去了哪里,历史没有记载。
有这样一种假说,夏朝灭亡后,其王室带着大量皇家祭祀用品迁徙,最终来到三星堆所在的部落,并在此地重新定居。为了防止自己的巨额财富被敌人觊觎,他们把这些东西全部埋在地下,希望将来有机会收复国家。
然而,直到3500年后他们才再次打开这批宝藏。


Left: Pottery from the Sanxingdui Civilization
Right: Pottery from the Erlitou Civilization

左图:三星堆文明的陶器
右图:二里头文明的陶器

This explanation involves a lot of speculation and storytelling
But it can explain many unreasonable phenomena in Sanxingdui
1. Why are there so many high-level cultural relics?
As a defeated royal family, it is normal to transfer many of the dynasty's wealth and sacrificial supplies. This may also explain why among all the artifacts, there are very few weapons. Because they don't have much of an army.
2. Why is the Sanxingdui ruins so small?
This place was not originally the capital of the country, but a backward tribe. The nobles moved here to live, and naturally they could not recreate the glory of the imperial capital.
3. Why is there a big gap between the civilization level of the ruins and the civilization level of the cultural relics in the sacrificial pits?
Because all high-level cultural relics are foreign
4. Why are there many cultural relics similar to those of the Shang Dynasty and southern countries?
Because the xia Dynasty was once the center of civilization, it was normal to receive gifts from surrounding countries.
5. Why are their bronze masks and sacred trees so different from those of the Shang Dynasty?
The xia Dynasty itself is another civilization, older than the Shang Dynasty, and it is normal to have a unique style.
6. Why is the Jinsha ruins, dozens of kilometers south of Sanxingdui, considered to be the destination for the second migration of Sanxingdui people? It is later than Sanxingdui, but there are not so many high-level cultural relics.
The nobles buried all the dynasty's treasures and became a group of desolate common people. By the time their descendants migrated to the Jinsha ruins, they had lost the ability to make these things again.

这种解释涉及很多猜测和故事
但可以解释三星堆很多不合理的现象
1、为什么有这么多高级别文物?
作为战败的皇室,转移很多王朝的财富和祭祀物资也是很正常的事。这或许也能解释为什么在所有的文物中,武器很少。因为他们的军队不多。
2、三星堆遗址为什么这么小?
这里原本并不是国家的首都,而是一个落后的部族,贵族们迁到这里居住,自然无法重现帝都的辉煌。
3、遗址的文明程度和祭祀坑内文物的文明程度为何差距这么大?
因为所有高级文物都是外来的
4、为什么有很多与商朝及南方国家相似的文物?
因为夏朝曾经是文明的中心,接受周边国家的馈赠是很正常的事。
5、他们的青铜面具、神树为何与商朝有如此大的不同?
夏朝本身是另外一个文明,比商朝还要古老,有独特的风格也很正常。
6、为什么说三星堆以南几十公里的金沙遗址是三星堆人第二次迁徙的目的地?它比三星堆晚,但高等级的文物却没有那么多。
贵族们把王朝的宝物全部埋藏起来,成为了一群凄凉的平民,等到他们的后代迁徙到金沙遗址时,已经失去了重新制造这些东西的能力。

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