The recent opening of a new exhibition building at the Sanxingdui Museum, in Guanghan, in Sichuan province, made the place instant tourist hot spot. The bronze heads, golden masks, holy trees and various statues reveal the ( mystery) faces of a culture dating back more than 3,000 years.
For those who cannot make it to Guanghan, where the extensive site of Sanxingdui is located, an immersive exhibition equipped with digital technology, ( title) Hello Sanxingdui, ( offer) an alternative means to be awed by the magnificence of this Bronze Age culture. It is running at the Longfu Art Museum in Beijing until Feb 29.
It provides a time- travel experience for both an educational and artistic appeal. The journey begins a brief timeline of texts, photos and videos, showing how Sanxingdui was first discovered in the 1920s, objects were found by farmers digging an irrigation ditch(灌溉沟渠); and it highlights the important moments in the past century's continued archaeological efforts, to reveal the myths surrounding Sanxingdui and the secrets yet ( uncover).
On show ( be) life- size reproduction s of dozens of astonishing artifacts, supervised by Sanxingdui Museum, such as 2.6- meter bronze statues, 3.8- meter- wide bronze masks and" the holy tree" standing nearly 4 meters.
Images of these objects found at Sanxingdui and their ( pattern) have been digitalized, animated and projected on screens, leading the audience into the ancient kingdom of Shu, a ( civilize) that thrived for centuries in the southwest during the Zhou Dynasty, and disappeared suddenly, leaving many myths and legends.
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