Jinsha after the Disappearance of Sanxingdui Civilization

　　The discovery of the archaeological remains at Sanxingdui was one of the 20th century's most notable finds, one which is significant to this day.

　　Entering the Sanxingdui Museum, one sees a complex bronze society, which the world had been ignorant of for thousands of years. The artifacts tell the story of a large-scale city and its theocracy and ritual system. Known as the ancient Shu state, the civilization had its own distinctive local culture, agriculture, and handicraft. It maintained cultural and economic exchanges with the central part of the country and neighboring regions and developed into an important cultural center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

　　The ancient Shu civilization, represented by the Sanxingdui bronze sculptures and the bronze tree, can be paralleled with the Zhongyuan civilization in the Shang Dynasty, the West Asian civilizations and other bronze civilizations in the world.
A large number of small bronze wares, jade wares, ivories and antlers were unearthed in the Jinsha relics, which was found in the western suburbs of Chengdu in the spring of 2001. Most of the unearthed wares were used for ritual ceremonies, and some of them resembled those unearthed in Sanxingdui, in terms of form and production technique.

　　Scholars and experts agree that the Jinsha site used to be a sacrificial center in the ancient Shu state and it was another center of Shu after the disappearance of the Sanxingdui Civilization. It was estimated through archeological means that the Jinsha relics originated 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, where the ancient Shu people had lived for nearly 1,000 years.