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As one of China’s most significant archeological discoveries in the 21st century, the Jinsha Cultural Relics site is valuable for searching the origin of the civilization of the middle-upper reaches of the Yangtze River. However, it is an ongoing attraction because of the continuing excavation. What does the totem of the ancient Shu Kingdom look like? How did our ancestors conduct their sacrificial rites? These questions inspire people to have a better understanding of and have a closer look at the secrets buried underground. It was announced on March 25th that the Jiansha Museum, under construction since 2004, is to be open to the public this month. It’s believed that the “Jinsha Ancient Town” will stage a comeback for the Ancient Shu Kingdom dating back to 3,000 year ago.
Value
The Jinsha Site Museum, located in the city’s western suburb, is a theme museum built on the original place of the Jinsha Cultural Relics Site. It covers an area of 300,000 square meters with 70% of it green space. With a cost of 389 million yuan, the museum functions as protection for the site, a base for archeological research and exhibition of unearthed cultural relics.
The museum is made up of five parts including a cultural relics site hall, an exhibition hall, a cultural relics protection center, a public park and a tourist center. Here the people can not only see the dazzling treasures unearthed from the Jinsha Cultural Relics Site, but also know more and better about the Jinsha City of the ancient Kingdom of Shu. It’s a perfect place for visitors to have a full understanding about the brilliant civilization of the Shu Kingdom. A lot of rare old trees, including ginkgo, metasequoia, and ebony, will be planted inside the museum to copy the vegetation and aquatic environment of 3,000 years ago.
Design
Inside the museum, visitors can see that a river named “Modi”, whose name can be traced back to pre-historic time, runs though the museum, dividing it into the northern part and the southern one. The cultural relics hall is the first building that visitors will enter at the museum. The outer appearance of the hall is like a declining cylinder with a post-modern architecture style. Located on the northern bank of the Modi River, the exhibition hall is a cubic like an object rising from the underground, symbolizing that the Jinsha Civilization emerges from the soil. The pattern of the sunbird is highlighted at the fa?ade of the building. Some typical cultural relics like the gold sunbird adornment and gold mask will be displayed in the hall, enabling visitors to know about the life, production and culture of the ancient Shu Kingdom.
Multilingual Service
The Jinsha Cultural Relics Site is the ruins of the capital city of the ancient Shu Kingdom. It is one of the ruins with the most unearthed ivories compared with others in the same period all over the world and with the most excavated gold and jade wares among all the same kinds of ruins all over China. How were the ivories buried? How magnificent the fete ceremony must have been? As soon as the Jinsha Cultural Relics Site Museum unveils itself, visitors from home and abroad can get answers. According to an insider from the museum, multilingual service will be offered to foreign visitors. Interpreters speaking in English, French, and Japanese will bring foreign visitors back into the miraculous Jinsha Civilization.
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