Jinsha Site Museum

Chengdu Top 2 in Must-Visit Museums

A very cool museum for anyone who finds archeology fascinating! So manny wonderful pieces and a lot to learn

Impressive site with few visitors, 30 mins from downtown to the scenic. It is worth of paying a visit.

Jinsha site is my favorite place in Chengdu. It is very convenient to come here. The subway is very close. It was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Xiang, mainly divided into ruins museum and exhibition hall. The treasure of the town hall is sun god bird gold decoration and the Shang Zhou Da gold mask, but unfortunately the ruins hall did not have I imagined "stimulus", I thought there would be someone bones or something. But it is still very worth seeing, especially not only the pavilion, the garden outside is also very interesting, the place is very large, not many people, slowly wandering is just a good place to kill time.

▶ Sun Godbird Gold Decoration: The inner layer of the design is equidistantly distributed with 12 rotating toothed lights. The outer layer is composed of four identical anticlockwise birds. It is a bit like paper-cut, very thin, but it is indeed gold foil material, containing up to 94.2% gold, is a Chinese cultural heritage mark. It is also the core of Chengdu city symbol, in Chengdu and even the whole Sichuan people have a high symbolic meaning in the heart, the art value is very high, the gold decoration reappears the ancient human "golden Wu negative day" myth and legend, four god birds around the spinning sun, and the cycle, recurring, The constant life, reflecting the ancient people to the sun and birds of the strong worship. ▶ Shangzhou Dajin Mask: It is the most complete and most bulky gold mask in the Shangzhou period in China. The overall shape looks very powerful, but the back of the mask is not very smooth, and it looks a little rough and uneven, so it is not worn. It's said to be worn on bronze ware. ▶ The gold crown with the arrow of the human face fishbird: It consists of four groups of the same designs. Each group of designs is a fish, an arrow, a bird and a circle. This pattern is basically the same as the gold war pattern that the Samsung heap has been drawing. It should be the symbol of the highest power. Going to the Jinsha Museum, we know that the Jinsha culture and the Samsungdui culture have very high identity and continuity, which is an important reference for understanding the development of the ancient Shu culture.

Jinsha site is about 3000 years ago, the center of ancient Shu. The museum is composed of the ruins museum, the exhibition hall and so on. The ruins museum has the archaeological site, the exhibition hall displays the unearthed cultural relics, and there are five exhibition halls and mobile exhibition halls. The exhibition hall is a single-line tour in the order of the development of Jinsha civilization. It is worth seeing. It is best to have audio or guide commentary. There are many unsolved mysteries in the sands. The Sunbird is the most famous, selected as the symbol of Chinese cultural heritage, the degree of corruption is self-evident, the design is very modern, the craftsmanship. The gold mask looks more dignified, and Samsungdui bronze masks in the same vein. Other things in the exhibition hall are jade, ivory and so on. Other points of view in the museum: ebony forest, desolate and solemn, good place for pictures; beside the fragrant fragrance; deer garden, elk song, wild apple.