Jinsha Site Museum, Chengdu, China
Jinsha ( 金沙 ) is an archaeological site in Chengdu, capital of China's Sichuan Province. Located in Qingyang District, along the Modi River (摸底河), the site is named for a nearby street, itself named after the Jinsha River.
The Jinsha site was accidentally discovered in February 2001 during real estate construction. Located about 50 km away from Sanxingdui, the site flourished around 1000 BC and shares similarities in burial objects with the Sanxingdui site. Ivory, jade artifacts, bronze objects, gold objects and carved stone objects have been found at the site. Unlike the site at Sanxingdui, Jinsha did not have a city wall. Jinsha culture (1200–650 BC) was a final phase of Sanxingdui culture and represents a relocation of the political center in the ancient Shu Kingdom. The city was built on the banks of the Modi River.
The Jinsha site are enlisted on Unescos list of tentative world heritage sites together with Sanxingdui and Tombs of boat-shaped coffins.
이 금사유적은 비교적 근자에 발견 발굴된 곳으로, 이곳에서 두 시간 정도 떨어진 그 유명한 삼성퇴 유적 단계에 해당한다.
이곳은 발굴결과 현장 보존조치되고 근자에 현장박물관으로 개장했다.
이곳은 크게 네 구역이지만 두 구역이 중요하다.
1, 유적 발굴현장
2, 관련 출토유물 성과 전시를 위한 박물관.
사진에서 소개한 곳은 현장박물관이다.
이것이 우리에게 시사하는 바는 자명하다.
요컨대 유적 전체를 박물관으로 맹근다는 실로 담대한 발상을 해야 한다.
이른바 현장박물관이 절실한 시점이다.
Covering a total area of about 38,000 square meters (9 acres), Jinsha Site Museum mainly consists of Relics Hall, Exhibition Hall, Cultural Heritage Protection Center and Ecological Garden. It is a rare site museum among Chinese museums because of its combination of modern civilization and the civilization of ancient Shu State (Sichuan Province was called Shu State in ancient times), as well as the combination of ecological environment and culture.
Jinsha Site Museum is built to protect, study and display the archaeological finds of Jinsha Site, which was discovered by archaeologists in February 2001. Covering an area of about five square kilometers (1,236 acres), Jinsha Site probably dates back to about 3,000 years ago, the time from the late Shang Dynasty (17th-11th century BC) to the early Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC-476 BC). It is the core of Shang and Zhou Dynasty (17th century BC-221 BC) and the second ancient city of Shu State found only after the Three-Star Piles Museum. Altogether 63 sacrificial spots, 6,000 pieces of precious relics, over 70 building spots and 3 centralized cemeteries were unearthed here.
Jinsha Site Museum has the world's most concentrated ancient ivory among its kind in the same period. Unearthed ivories include complete ivories, cut ivories, ivory segments, ivory pieces, ivories in shape of strip, bean or bead and so on. In addition, there are a small number of elephant skulls and molars. After specific identification, these ivories are considered to be local Asian elephants’.
It is one of the sites that have unearthed the most gold articles compared with others in the same period in China. More than 200 pieces of gold articles have been found, including gold foils, gold films, gold masks, gold belts, Gold Foil of the Sun God Bird, box-shaped gold, flared gold, frog-shaped ornaments, fish-shaped ornaments. Most of the gold items are attachments of other objects as symbols of nobility. These vivid gold objects show the superior technology and exceptional artistic imagination as well as rich ancient history information.
Jinsha Site Museum unearthed the most jade among all its kind of the Bronze Age. More than 2,000 pieces of jade of various kinds are revealed, such as jades in shape of axe, chisel, knife, sword, spear, ring, bracelet, etc. The number of Zhang jades even exceeds the sum of other parts in China. Most of the jades were used for sacrifice.
In addition to the 'three mosts', Jinsha Site has another important feature, namely its lifelike stone statues. Kneeling stone figures, stone tigers and stone snakes are the representatives. Using red, black, white and other colors and many smart techniques, vivid human or animal images with flowing lines came out.
Jinsha Site Museum mainly consists of Relics Hall, Exhibition Hall, Cultural Heritage Protection Center and Ecological Garden.
The relics hall is a semicircle with an area of 7,600 square meters (2 acres). The main structure is large span steel structure with column-free space. In this hall, you can feel the grand sacrificing ceremony, life scenes and ecological environment 3,000 years ago. Besides, you can have a close view of the process of archaeological excavation. The hall also displays the exquisite artifacts demonstrating the occurrence, development, and evolution of the civilization of ancient Shu State.
The Exhibition Hall has a special structure. It is a sunken building with a basement and 3 floors above ground and the northern part is much lower than the southern part. In this hall high technologies are used to reproduce the civilization of ancient Shu State and help tourists discover the mysterious Jinsha Site. As a result of 'sound and light painting' technology, visitors can see life scenes 3,000 years ago, for example, hunting wild boar, the mother with a baby in hands, and lovely elephants, etc. The inductive directional query system makes it possible for visitors to get rich information on places or objects by simply clicking the mouse. The multi-media interactive system, which is used for the first time in China, shows the relationship of the civilization of ancient Shu State with other early civilizations, such as the Mayan civilization, the Mesopotamian civilization and ancient Indian civilization. What's more, one of the most outstanding artifacts, the Gold Sun God Bird, a perfect complex outcome of 'Harmony' philosophy, rich imagination, extraordinary artistic creativity and superb technology, is exhibited in this hall.
The Cultural Heritage Protection Center is located in the northeast of Jinsha Site Museum, covering an area of 8,000 square meters (about 2 acres). It is the center for protecting and studying the cultural relics unearthed there. Nearby, there is a little theater. A lot of performances related with Jinsha Culture are played there.
Ecological Garden in Jinsha Site Museum is very beautiful with surrounding ginkgos, metasequoias and other ancient trees. The garden has the 'Sun Bird Sculpture', 'Western Hills', 'Jade Road' and 'Ebony Forest' which are worthy of recommendation.
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