"Huayang National Chronicles" contains: "Zhou lost the discipline, Shu first called the king, there was Shu Hou silkworm cong, its eyes longitudinal, the first king. ”

The meaning of this passage is that when the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty was in vain, the Shu Marquis Silkworm Cong took the lead in claiming the king. There is a very distinct feature of this person's appearance: "its eyeballs", that is, the eyeballs are clearly protruding outward.

Based on this account, many scholars believe that the prototype of the Zongmu mask was a silkworm cong.

In Yangxiong's "The Book of the King of Shu", Silkworm Cong is also the founder of the ancient Shu Kingdom and the first person to claim the throne.

The people in the Bashu area regard the silkworm cong as the "first silkworm", and say that they first taught the people to raise silkworms and reel silk, and called them "Tsing Yi God". The name "silkworm cong" may be derived from this.

The ancients believed that the ancient Shu Kingdom existed, Yang Xiong of the Western Han Dynasty wrote "The Book of the King of Shu", and Chang Xuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty wrote "Huayang National Chronicles", which recorded the ancient Shu Kingdom, although the language is grotesque, it is also a rare historical material.

The gold-foiled scepter was unearthed in the No. 1 sacrificial pit of Sanxingdui, with a total length of 1.42 meters and a diameter of 2.3 centimeters. The upper end of the rod is carved with three groups of eucalyptus, the upper two groups of the same eucalyptus, the top two fish, the middle of which is two birds, and a feathered arrow through the fish and the bird.

The bottom group is a portrait of a human head, wearing a five-tooth crown.

This image is obviously also a symbol of the king.

Who is the king who owns this golden battle?

Some scholars believe that the fish and birds on the scepter are the fish and the scepter, and the scepter refers to the osprey.

In the legend of the ancient Shu Kingdom, there is a king named "Yu Zhu", and the owner of this scepter is likely to be this person.

Although, such an explanation is somewhat far-fetched.

But this is already the most reliable explanation that can be proposed, which can link the written records of the ancient Shu Kingdom left by the Chinese civilization with the cultural relics unearthed at the Sanxingdui site.

What era are the characters of silkworm cong and fish fish?

How long is the history of the ancient Shu Kingdom?

This has always been a mystery that has puzzled modern scholars.

More than 1,000 years ago, the poet immortal Li Bai once wrote: "Silkworms and fish, how dazed is the founding of the country!" He is 48,000 years old, and he is not populated with Qinsai. ”

The "historical" basis of Li Bai's poems is the record in Yangxiong's "Shu King Benji": "Before Shu, the kings were silkworm cong, cypress irrigation, fish squirting, Du Yu, and enlightenment. …… From the enlightened to the silkworm cong, it is 34,000 years old. ”

Li Bai said that "Erlai is 48,000 years old", which is an exaggerated language to say the long history of the ancient Shu Kingdom.

Of course, he would not believe that the silkworm bush and the fish were characters tens of thousands of years ago.

Therefore, the sentence "He is at a loss for the founding of the country" expresses his doubts about the founding history of the ancient Shu Kingdom and his desire for the truth.

"The Book of the King of Shu" also said: "These three generations (referring to the three generations of Shu kings of silkworm cong, baiguan, and yujiao) are each hundreds of years old, and they are all deified and immortal, and their people are quite following the king." "It is even more said that the founder of the ancient Shu Kingdom is miraculous.

This is obviously a bit too mysterious.

According to the "Huayang National Chronicles", the silkworm cong was called the king in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

After the death of the silkworm cong, Bai Guan and Yu Yu became kings one after another.

Later, Du Yu and Kaiming were both emperors.

However, this statement is more in line with realistic logic.

At present, it is widely believed in the academic community that the statement of "Huayang Guozhi" is closer to the real history of the ancient Shu Kingdom.

Moreover, in "Huayang National Chronicles", he does not think that Silkworm Cong is the founder of the ancient Shu Kingdom, but only that he is the first person to claim the throne of the ancient Shu Kingdom.

Before he became the king, there was already an ancient Shu kingdom and a marquis of Shu.

Who was the founder of the ancient Shu Kingdom?

"Huayang National Chronicles: Shu Zhi" also said:

"Shu is a country, caused by the emperor, and is confined to Ba. To the Yellow Emperor, his son Changyi married the daughter of the Shushan clan and gave birth to a son, Gao Yang, who was the emperor. Seal its branch in Shu, the world is Hou Bo. Lixia, Shang, Zhou, King Wu cut down, Shu and Yan. ”

What does this phrase mean?

That is to say, Shu was the first to become a country, and it was the first to be sealed by the human emperor.

And the human emperor here, contact the following "to the Yellow Emperor", indicating that it should be the Shennong clan earlier than the Yellow Emperor.

In this way, according to the "Huayang National Chronicles" "Shu is the country, caused by the emperor", the ancient Shu country has a history of at least about 5,000 years.

Later, the Yellow Emperor married the daughter of the Shushan clan for his son Changyi and gave birth to Gao Yang, one of the "Five Emperors".

Zhuan Xuan divided his branch into Shu land, the world for the Hou Bo, experienced the Xia, Shang, Zhou dynasties.

When King Wu invaded, Shu also sent troops to participate.

The ancient Shu State sent troops to participate in the war of King Wu, which is recorded in the "Shangshu Pastoral Oath".

The word "Shu" first appeared in the oracle bone inscription.

Because there are records of Shang and Shu in the oracle bone inscriptions, some scholars believe that the ancient Shu Kingdom existed in the Shang Dynasty at the latest.

The cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui also confirm this.

The Sanxingdui sacrificial pit that has been excavated is about 3300 ~ 3000 years ago, which is equivalent to the middle and late Shang Dynasty.

The records of the relationship between the Yellow Emperor, Zhuan Xuan and Shu can actually be corroborated with the actual archaeological discoveries of the Sanxingdui civilization.

First of all, through the four phases of cultural stratification of the Sanxingdui civilization, it can be determined that the earliest Sanxingdui civilization did indeed begin in 3000 BC.

Even as early as the late Neolithic!

This undoubtedly corresponds to the time of Shennong's existence.

After that, the Yellow Emperor married the daughter of the Shushan clan and gave birth to the Gaoyang clan, that is to say, one of the five emperors, the matrilineal ancestor came from Shu.

And after that, the branch was divided into Shu land.

This is also corroborated by the archaeological discoveries at the Sanxingdui site.

Sanxingdui has always been influenced by the culture of the Central Plains and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and has introduced advanced technology from the Central Plains and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, absorbing the advanced artifacts of these cultures.

The Sanxingdui civilization has never been closed off from the country and developed independently, but has always had exchanges with the Central Plains culture.

Obviously, the reason why there are such frequent exchanges is because the Sanxingdui civilization is the mother family of Zhuan Xuan and belongs to a member of the Central Plains cultural circle, so of course there will be close exchanges!

In the oracle bone inscription, there is indeed a record of the place "Shu", and even the related things of Shang and Shu are recorded.

This also shows that Shu culture still existed in the Shang Dynasty.

In the later period of King Wu's war, not to mention.

Several sacrificial pits currently excavated in Sanxingdui are all in the Late Shang period, which proves that the Sanxingdui civilization was already a highly developed civilization in the Late Shang period, and the bronze craftsmanship was not inferior to that of the merchants.

Then of course they have the strength to participate in this large-scale battle film that swept the entire East Asian region three thousand years ago: King Wu's Invasion!

If it is verified according to the mutual verification of the "Huayang National Chronicles" and the oracle bone inscription and the "Shangshu Pastoral Oath".

It seems that the source and inheritance of the Sanxingdui civilization can be clarified.

However, things didn't go so well.

If the Sanxingdui civilization is the later ancient Shu Kingdom.

The prototype of these longitudinal masks is the silkworm cong, and the silkworm cong, as the recipient, is the ancestor of the "Sanxingdui people".

Then the era in which he is located is earlier than the Sanxingdui sacrificial pit, not the Spring and Autumn Period mentioned in the "Huayang National Chronicles"!

All of a sudden, the timeline doesn't match again!

Sanxingdui at least in the late Shang period, there was already a habit of sacrificing the "king of Zongmu".

Is the silkworm congregation earlier than the longitudinal eye, or is the longitudinal eye earlier than the silkworm congregation?

When scholars think they have solved the mystery of Sanxingdui, an even bigger mystery ensues!

And this is the charm left by Sanxingdui culture!