三星堆英文导游词Good morning, Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Sanxingdui Museum. The museum is Situated in the northeast of the Sanxingdui Site and it was opened to the public in October 1997.It’s no doubt a treasure-house. Because it has a great number of historical relics , which are very spectacular, such as a stately standing figure, a freakish bronze mask, and a towering bronze holy tree; all of them are unparalleled treasures. Moreover there are many gold wares and jade wares ,and many of them are the first ever seen of their kind. All these relics proved that Sanxingdui was the capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom more than 3,000 years ago. Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to introduce you one of the most unique and grotesque relics in the museum - the bronze mask with protruding eyes. Everybody, please watch the mask carefully. It is 78 centimeters wide , 82.5 centimeters high and on the forehead there is a dragon-shaped crown, which is 68-centimeters long. The mask’s eyeballs are quite strange,right? they are not the normal eyeballs ,but look like two bulging circular cylinders, and each thrusting outward about 10cm. The ears are also stange ,they are very big and stretch out on both sides. Actually , the mask is half human beings half animals . So you may feel confused: What was their prototype or origin? Why must they be expressed in such way? The answer may lies in the history. 3000 years ago, Sanxingdui was the capital of the Shu Kingdom and Cancong was the first ruler. So the Shu people regarded Cancong as their ancestral deity. According to written records in the Shu Kingdom’s Chronicle, it says: “ Cancong had protruding eyes”. In the past, scholars wer...
