Several years ago, construction workers accidentally discovered the Jinsha Site at the west suburb of Chengdu. More than a thousand precious cultural relics were cleaned up from the site, including gold articles, jade articles, bronze ware, stoneware and ivory articles. In addition, plenty of pottery wares and nearly one ton of ivory were unearthed here. Analyzed from the material and sculpt of cultural relics unearthed, it is to a certain extent similar with Sanxingdui Site, which is also situated on Chengdu Plain with a history of about 4000-5000 years, and meanwhile there are some differences between them.

 Successive relationship with Sanxingdui

The gold design of 'the sun bird' unearthed in the Jinsha Ruins, which artistically expresses the admiration of the sun by ancient Chinese, was officially selected as the sign of Chinese cultural heritage last August.

Thus, this shows Jinsha Site has some successive relationship with Sanxingdui. Plenty of exquisite and marvelous cultural relics are unearthed from Jinsha Site, including the gold decoration of 'Sun Bird'. Its design is 'four birds circling the sun', whether the four flying birds in the exterior side or the revolving sun in the interior side are full of innervations. It has expressed the worship and eulogizing of ancient Shu people to the Sun Bird and sun-god. The design of "Sun Bird" was used as the symbol of Chinese Cultural Heritage by State Cultural Relics Bureau in 2005. From then on, the symbol of 'Sun Bird' has appeared on all the Chinese cultural heritages and it has traveled into the outer space accompanied with the 'Shenzhou VI' spacecraft.

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