Cultural Connotation of Directory Background Information
Description of cultural relics: the trunk of bronze sacred tree is 384 cm high and 396 cm high, which consists of two parts: the tree seat and the trunk. The tree seat is slightly conical, the base is round and decorated with moire, and three mountains above the base are connected, and there are moire on the mountains. The trunk is cast in the middle of the top of the mountain, straight and bare. There are three branches on the trunk, and each branch has three branches. There is a fruit at the end of the branch, a fruit branch rises, a bird stands on the fruit, and two fruit branches droop. A steam wheel is cast under the tree fork and the fruit rack respectively. On one side of the tree, a dragon came down to help the tree, with a braided horse face and sword-shaped feather wings. From the modeling point of view, the bronze sacred tree should be the Shenmu "Fusang" representing the East. Edit the background information of this paragraph. Eight bronze sacred trees were unearthed in Sanxingdui No.2 Sacrificial Pit, which can be divided into three types: big bronze sacred trees, medium bronze sacred trees and small bronze sacred trees. Among them, there are two large sacred trees and several small sacred trees and broken pieces that cannot be spliced. After the restoration, the large bronze sacred tree is as high as 3.95 meters, which may be the largest single bronze relic found in the world at present. The rest of the scared trees are broken and can't see the whole picture clearly. The residual height of 1 copper tree is 396 cm. Because the top has been missing, the estimated total height should be about 5 meters. The lower part of the tree has a circular base, and three diagonal braces like roots support the bottom of the trunk. The trunk is straight and covered with three layers of branches, three on each layer. The whole tree has nine branches. All the branches droop gently. There is a short branch sticking out from the middle of the branch. There are small circles and flower buds with hollow patterns on the short branch, and there is a bird with its head held high and its tail cocked. There are pointed peach-shaped fruits on the branches, wrapped in two hollow leaves, one long and one short. In each layer of three branches, one branch has two long branches. There are four short beams on one side of the trunk to fix an upside-down dragon on the trunk. Among all the archaeological discoveries in the world, the bronze sacred tree unearthed at Sanxingdui site is a unique and extremely wonderful artifact. The whole making tree is beautiful in shape, rigorous in layout and seamless. The No.1 bronze sacred tree is divided into three layers, and the branches are inhabited by nine sacred birds, which is obviously a portrayal of "living in the next branch for nine days". When unearthed, the top was broken and not repaired. Legend has it that there were 10 suns in ancient times. They live in the holy tree, Fusang, and change it every day. There are nine birds left on the restored bronze sacred tree, but there are no sacred birds at the top of the sacred tree. Presumably, there should also be a god bird symbolizing "a day on a branch", and several bronze birds and face birds standing on the bud have been unearthed. Probably one of them is a bronze bird living on the branch of a sacred tree. The second bronze tree in Sanxingdui only keeps the lower part, and the overall shape is unknown. Below is a disc base. On the pedestal between the three diagonal braces symbolizing the roots of trees, there is a man kneeling on each side, and the hand of a portrait is stretched forward, as if holding something originally. The recoverable trunk has three branches extending from each floor. Its branches have a bud wrapped in a long leaf and a short leaf, followed by a small circle, basically the same as the No.1 copper tree; However, the main body of the branch sticks out and sticks up, and the bird perches on the leaves of the bud, which is different from the No.1 copper tree. Edit the cultural connotation of this paragraph. These two big copper trees are huge, especially the No.1 big copper tree, which is surrounded by dragons. They should not be ordinary trees, but should be sacred trees with some divinity. There are more than one kind of sacred trees in ancient myths and legends in China, such as Jian Mu, Fusang, Ruomu, Sansang and Du Tao. Which of the sacred trees above is closer to the bronze tree that once stretched in the sky of Sanxingdui? Scholars compare the same document and get different explanations. Therefore, people try to find answers in ancient books and myths. Many scholars believe that they represent Fusang and Ruomu, and they are a bronze sacred tree in the ladder showcase where ancient Shu people fantasize about becoming immortals. This ladder is connected with the place where the sun is. It is called Fusang in the east and Ruomu in the west. Some scholars believe that the bronze sacred tree found in Sanxingdui may be or be related to sword wood. Rosen, a British scholar, wrote in the book The Secret of Ancient China that the bronze tree in Sanxingdui is made of precious materials, that is, it is cast in bronze, which may imply that it represents the immaterial world outside the world. Sanxingdui copper tree shows us a sky-high theme with its trunk, birds, flowers and the sun on the sacred tree for people to imagine. On the branches of the bronze tree, you can clearly see some perforations for hanging utensils. Archaeologists found some small bronzes from the object pit of Sanxingdui. These bronze sounders may be hung on copper trees. Three thousand years ago, when the wind blew through Sanxingdui, people in the whole kingdom could hear the music played by the swaying and collision of metals. The crisp sound proves that a great bronze age reached its peak in Sichuan Basin. Such a huge bronze sacred tree will tilt because its center of gravity moves up. The restored bronze tree we see now is fixed by several steel cables. The hollow bronze trunk is also reinforced and supported by steel pipes. Some scholars believe that if this bronze sacred tree is assembled and erected according to the prototype, the original three-legged base can't bear all its weight at all. It is speculated that this sacred bronze tree should be cast temporarily for large-scale sacrifice, rather than set up as a long-term display. Casting many sacred trees with bronze required great determination at that time, because it was a very huge and complicated manufacturing process. Judging from the casting technology of bronze sacred tree, the craftsmen of Sanxingdui used the most advanced technology and means at that time, as if they had completed a number of immortal ritual vessels. However, if the speculation of "one-time use" is established, we will ask: did the craftsmen at that time know that the works would be burned, damaged and buried after completion before making them? If you know, you still consume a lot of energy, so that you are tireless in any details? Perhaps, the maker of the sacred tree thinks that "manufacturing completion" is not the ultimate goal, and only by "completely crushing" according to the ultimate ritual of sacrifice can it be truly "completed"!