typical representative of the bronze dragon of this period in southwest China

Many eyes, you can list a big battle with all these eyes group portrait, or wide open with, or turn a blind eye meditation, clearly express an image - Ancient Shu Kingdom relentless pursuit of heaven and earth, the natural understanding of the universe. After thousands of years, with their own eyes through the eyes of these bronze, see the soul and spirit of the Ancient Shu Kingdom, imagine their understanding of the universe, life and thought. Second unit of the country of the gods - the mysterious primitive religion in this unit.
We have broken the traditional practices of the past the window of a single display, a panoramic view of the display, set of four large-scale scenes combination with intent to reveal the ancient Shu social structure and spiritual world of the ancestors, to reproduce the outline of a long-vanished ancient society. Some of the bronze sculpture even fall to pieces. Take a look: the first group of two pit wonders of this group display a real model in the beginning of the two sacrificial pits exposing state as the main exhibits. Generally faithful to the original model, the ratio narrowed slightly. One pit was a rectangular pit left, and right three channels and the Hang Hau was shaped distribution of "goods". The pits were excavated more than 400 pieces of bronze, gold, jade, stone, bone, ivory, etc.. Also unearthed hundreds of pieces of seashells and about three cubic meters of burned bones. The world-famous golden scepter will be out of this pit.
2 pit compared to the 1st hole, not only larger, deeper, and the cultural relics unearthed in terms of the types is still the number should be much richer, not including the thousands of pieces of seashells, a total of unearthed cultural relics of 800 . Among them, the sacred tree, Dali portrait, large Zongmu mask, wearing the crown Zongmu mask round the sun, the gold surface of human head, Humanities and Yu Zhang, and other artifacts are called rare treasures. First is the characteristics of the corrosion of bronze sculpture. Of the existence of the tunnel, two pit toward consistency, the artifacts of the two pit inheritance relationship, the two pit artifacts have been man-made destruction and burning of these factors together, we can roughly draw the following conclusions: buried in two pits in Sanxingdui Bronze Shu country the same reign within the Group, in different periods of regime change; no doubt in the burying process was held with a strong ritual meaning large-scale religious activities, and artifacts have been destruction and burning, it is in The results of the two Ji France debris Ji "and" Pan Liao Ji worship activities. All kinds especially in the late Shang dynasty bronzes of the most spectacular, most impressive, the most attractive. Sanxingdui bronze Army, is a typical representative of the bronze dragon of this period in southwest China. This group display bright colors and gold leaf, copper tiger, the peculiar shape of the dragon-shaped ornaments, the imposing appearance of a large rooster, more elegant, these bells ... we carefully watch. Sanxingdui bronzes, gold purity up to about 85%. The color of the newly unearthed bronze sculptureusually present in green. The other 15% is silver, a few other trace elements can be neglected. Gold casting process is roughly as follows: the original panning alluvial gold, and then into the molten smelting alloy gold with artificial hammering and rolling from Gympie, gold foil. Sanxingdui bronze alloy composition, can be divided into five types, which pewter copper this ternary alloy consisting of most bronze.
Sanxingdui bronzes lead content is generally high, ancient craftsmen intended to lead mobility and flexibility, to pursue the complex and beautiful bronze shape. Next, make friends, breath focus a lot of copper eyes and the eyes. Varying degrees of corrosion has happened to the left over or unearthed bronze sculpture.