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National treasure Bronze standing man in Jinsha Site Museum of Chengdu Royalty Free Stock Photo

National treasure bronze mirror standing man in Jinsha Site Museum of Chengdu Royalty Free Stock Photo

National treasure Bronze standing man in Jinsha Site Museum of Chengdu

The man standing in bronze was found as a sacrifice.Jinsha site was unearthed in February 2001 in Chengdu in an area spreading across about 5 square kilometers. It was the capital of the ancient Shu state, the center of the ancient civilization center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River from the 12th century BC to the 7th century BC. Among the important relics unearthed at Jinsha site are large-scale building foundations, the sacrificial zone, general residential sites, large-scale burial grounds, etc. Among the unearthed precious cultural relics are gold, bronze, jade, stone, ivory objects and lacquerware, tens of thousands of pottery pieces, tons of ivory, and thousands of wild boar tusks and antlers.