Sichuan's Sanxingdui Museum looks set to deepen collaboration with HK in future
發佈日期: 2025-09-27 20:20
TVB News
Two years after bringing its treasures to Hong Kong, Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan is looking to deepen cultural collaboration with the Hong Kong Palace Museum.
This 2.6-metre-high bronze standing statue boasting a history of more than 3,000 years, is the oldest and the tallest of its kind.
It is among the most prized pieces at Sichuan's Sanxingdui Museum -- prohibited to leave China for exhibitions. Scholars are still debating whether the figure represents a sorcerer or a king.
Another national treasure banned from being exhibited abroad is this No. 1 bronze sacred tree, rising nearly 4 metres high, believed to be a ladder to heaven to the minds of the ancients.
But the most iconic relics of Sanxingdui are of course these distinctive bronze face sculptures and gold masks.
The Sanxingdui archaeological site in Guanghan City in Sichuan dates back more than 4,000 years ago -- as early as to 2,800 BC.
President Xi Jinping visited the site in 2023, noting it presents powerful evidence of the pluralistic origins of Chinese civilisations with interactions between the ancient Shu culture and the Central Plains.
The deputy director of Sanxingdui Museum says many artifacts unearthed in Sanxingdui share similarities with other civilisations along the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers pointing to common worship of nature and the sun -- linking Sanxingdui with broader human cultural patterns.
He adds that the exhibition and international symposium held in Hong Kong two years ago were a major success.
They hope to collaborate with the SAR again in the future to undertake deeper academic exchange and more extensive exhibitions.
The museum currently has an average of 20,000 visitors per day.
The museum is also actively developing various cultural and creative products, with related revenue having reached 200 million yuan last year.
