Ep. 276 | Sanxingdui and Ancient Shu
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Just in time, we look at all the recent finds at the newly discovered six sacrificial pits at Sanxingdui. Archaeologists and historians are pretty sure all these exciting discoveries going back to 1986 at Sanxingdui, Jinsha, Shangwangjiaguai are from the ancient state of Shu. This topic has been requested constantly throughout the years. I'm glad I waited until now to unleash it on you. Be looking for even more incredible discoveries at the Sanxingdui site that will be announced in the coming months and years.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone, Lossel Montgomery here with another China History Podcast episode, |
| 0:05.2 | the 276th, in fact, since I started doing this popular family program 11 years ago, |
| 0:12.2 | still going strong since June 2010. Thanks to all my peoples who have been with me since I hung |
| 0:18.3 | out my shingle 11 years ago, and to everyone else who managed to find me through the years. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey, listen, before we get started, let me put in a quick plug for my new podcast show, |
| 0:28.6 | already being called one of the best tea history shows at 2021. You can find it in all |
| 0:34.7 | the same places where you can find the CHP or at the teacup.media website, the tea history podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Give it a shot. Okay, enough of all that. Let's get right on it. If you drove down to Wu Hotsu |
| 0:49.2 | Street in Chengdu and stood before the tomb of Liu Pei, pretty much for about 40, 50 miles in |
| 0:57.5 | every direction. Buried underneath you are layers and layers of artifacts and tombs from an |
| 1:04.5 | ancient civilization. It went back to times that even preceded the Shang Dynasty. There's about |
| 1:12.0 | 15 million people now living on top of what is believed to be the ancient kingdom of Xu. |
| 1:19.1 | And this many people crowding above a buried prehistoric civilization. As you could imagine, |
| 1:24.5 | it's limited the degree to which scientists and archaeologists can freely excavate and find out |
| 1:29.5 | more about who these people were, who long preceded them to this great city in China. Nonetheless, |
| 1:36.9 | it's starting to happen with more regularity that whenever construction workers or farmers in and |
| 1:43.8 | around Chengdu start digging in the ground, they stumble into some tomb or a horde of jade bronze |
| 1:52.4 | objects from three, four thousand years ago. In this episode, I'd like to introduce some of the |
| 1:58.5 | amazing discoveries that have been made on the Chengdu plain since the last century. And what they |
| 2:05.0 | mean to the traditional narrative of ancient Chinese history that developed in the north along the |
| 2:10.8 | yellow, way, and why rivers and all their many tributaries. What inspired me to cover this subject, |
| 2:18.4 | and besides so many requests over the years, was the recent article in the May 11th Washington Post |
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