Minda
and I went to the Hong Kong Palace Museum (香港故宮文化博物館) after Tai Chi Beginner Class (太極初班) on 17th Dec 2023. Today is very
cold down to 12oC.
Our
purpose is to see the Sanxingdui Sanxingdui (三星堆) cultural relics.
The
exhibition named “Gazing at Sanxingdui: New Archaeological Discoveries in
SiChuan” (凝視三星堆──四川考古新發現).
In
the beginning, a brief of history for this discovery was mentioned.
Entered
the museum, many sculptures were observed such as human head with gold mask,
giant standing figure, mask with protruding pupils, etc.
The
Giant standing figure (大位人像) is replica.
Human
head with gold mask.
We selfie
with one of big mask.
The
largest gold mask was found in Sanxingdui which weighs 350g that made of an
alloy with approximately 85% gold plus 15% other metals including silver,
copper, iron and tin.
The
digital display (hologram) for Bronze Tree (青銅神樹) was showed. The Bronze Tree was found very
consistent with the "Fusang Tree" (扶桑樹) described in "The Classic of Mountains
and Seas" (山海經).
After
that the chronology of the archaeological cultures in the Chengdu Plain Sichuan
was showed.
Finally,
a video demonstrated how to excavate, protect and preserve unearthed
archaeological artifacts.
Completed
tour of the exhibition room, we took a photo in the platform and saw an event
outside.
I
brought a souvenir that gave people an experience of archaeological discovery.
It
would be one of six sculptures.
On
23 Dec 2023, Minda and I opened this gift and simulated to find the sculpture in
the archaeological site.
Finally,
we found the Bronze Standing Figure!
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