Exploring the Ancient Shu Kingdom: Understanding Chinese Civilization Through Sanxingdui/?????:?????????

Examining the mysterious connection between the Sanxingdui site and the capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom. With Chinese civilization emerging from multiple independent origins, what position did the ancient Shu civilization hold? 考证三星堆遗址与古蜀国都城的神秘关联；中华文明多源并起，古蜀文明占据怎样的地位 This book represents the cumulative achievement of years of archaeological research by Mr. Huang Jianhua, a researcher at the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. It presents a wealth of historical materials in meticulous detail and, with the aid of exquisite artifact illustrations, offers a thorough introduction to the mysterious origins of Sanxingdui civilization, the theocratic rule of the ancient Shu kingdom, its religious ideology, economy, and culture. The work includes both a vertical exploration of the origins and evolution of the ancient peoples, cities, and states associated with Sanxingdui culture, and a panoramic depiction-from ecology to cultural patterns, from industries to science, technology, and crafts, and from social life to the subjective spiritual world of the divine arts. Well-grounded in evidence and appropriately detailed, the book highlights the rich and varied life of ancient Shu civilization, its highly advanced craftsmanship, and the exchanges and mutual learning between ancient Shu and foreign civilizations as well as economic and cultural interactions across Southwest China, South Asia, and West Asia. Ultimately, it underscores the unique position of ancient Shu civilization and its relationship to the pluralistic yet unified nature of Chinese civilization. 本书是四川省文物考古研究院研究员黄剑华先生从事考古研究多年的成果累积，详尽罗列了大量史料，并借助精美的文物图片对三星堆文明的神秘起源、古蜀国的神权统治、宗教意识形态、经济文化等加以详细介绍，既有对有关三星堆文化古族、古城、古国的渊源流向的纵向探索，又有从生态到文态、从产业到科技工艺、从社会生活到神灵的主观艺术世界的全景式描绘，有理有据，详略得当，彰显了古蜀文明丰富多彩的生活、高度发达的制作工艺，以及与外来文明和中国西南与南亚及西亚经济文化之间的交流互鉴，进而凸显出古蜀文明的独特地位和中华文明多源一统的关系。