Dance "Golden Face"
A girl in a white skirt walked into the secret world of time and space, attracted by a huge bronze giant. She felt that everything was deja vu, so she reached out and touched it. With the girl's touch, she opened the whirlpool of time and space, crossed the world of ancient Shu civilization, and met the golden youth of ancient Shu ... This is a scene in the creative dance "Golden Face".
"Golden Face" draws new inspiration from Sanxingdui civilization, extracts creative elements, and adopts cinematic shooting method to build a three-dimensional world of ancient Shu civilization. Through optical capture technology, female dancers and bronze giants can break the physical boundary between the real world and the virtual world, dance in the same world, form novel visual effects, and reproduce the fantasy color of ancient Shu civilization. This visual feast of ancient Shu civilization, which combines traditional culture and cutting-edge visual technology, has made hundreds of millions of viewers feel the profound connotation of ancient Zhang Shuhua.
In 202 1 year, the archaeological excavation of six new sacrificial pits in the sacrificial area of Sanxingdui site attracted great attention at home and abroad. Its grotesque bronze masks and portraits, tall bronze sacred trees, masks made of gold and golden staff have brought strong visual impact to the world and refreshed people's traditional understanding of ancient world civilization.
During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, many core knowledge of China's ancient ideological world was gradually forming, and ancient astronomical and geographical experiences, such as the place, center and four directions of the circle, the changes of Yin and Yang, the changes of seasons, the positioning of the sun, the moon and the stars, and the framework model of the universe, began to be expressed in different ways and appeared in archaeological materials. For example, the bronze sacred tree in Sanxingdui symbolizes the cosmic tree and the sun tree in ancient human civilization. For example, the sun god bird unearthed from Jinsha site.
Ancient Shu ancestors had a careful observation and profound understanding of sunrise and sunset, the changes of four seasons, especially the powerful power of the sun. The gold products they created, which represent the worship of the sun and the moon and the concept of the four seasons of Yin and Yang, are not only the simplest and natural expression of the universe and everything in the world by the Chinese nation, but also provide an extremely precious model for the history of world art and ancient thought with its almost perfect artistic modeling.
A large number of archaeological discoveries in Sanxingdui are relics and remains related to sacrifices, thus providing the world with an unprecedented knowledge picture of China's ancient spiritual world. Why is sacrifice so important and sacred in ancient China?
This involves a basic problem of early civilization in ancient China, that is, the communication, exchange and harmony between man and nature and between man and god. Ancient humans generally believed that there was some kind of "mysterious power" between nature and heaven, earth, man and god. Through certain rituals and ceremonies, human beings can "reach the heavens and the earth", or master the laws and codes of this mysterious power to obtain its protection, or actively use various "spells" (namely witchcraft) to avoid misfortune.
Since the Neolithic Age, primitive witchcraft and sacrificial activities have been found in archaeological discoveries. Many scholars have pointed out that the animal face pattern on the jade cong in Liangzhu culture, the dragon and tiger pattern on the mussel shell in Puyang, Henan Province, the jade plate pattern on Lingjiatan in Hanshan, Anhui Province, and the temples and statues in Hongshan Culture, Kazuo, Liaoning Province all contain the meaning of primitive witchcraft and sacrifice, and are considered to have the mysterious power of "touching the sky and attracting ghosts and gods".
In the bronze age of Shang and Zhou Dynasties in the Central Plains, sacrifice became a national event, and even a set of etiquette system centered on bronze ritual vessels was formed, which was widely used around the world. What Sanxingdui shows to the world is undoubtedly a different expression of this ancient tradition. It not only inherits China's view of the universe and divinity since ancient times, but also constructs people's understanding, imagination, thinking and expression of the ancient spiritual world in southwest China with its unique perspective and extraordinary observation and creativity.