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 were very confused of the term “protruding eyes”, because they did not know what it really meant. In order to explain it, a lot of speculative theories were invented. But none of them were convincing. Now with the excavation of this mask, most archeologists agree that the term should refer to the appearance of the mask. They believe that the mask represents the image of CanCong , the first ruler of the Shu kingdom..

Everybody ,do you agree the explanation? If you don’t , here I want to share other

speculations with you. One opinion is the mask is associated with some folklore. Because the exaggerated eyes and ears are the most impressive features of the mask. So some archeologist believed that these images symbolize the so-called Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Accompanying Ear in Chinese folklore. Another opinion is that the mask shows the evolution of totems. Because early cultures tend to mix animism with ancestral worship , so it is not strange that the mask has both animalistic and human features. Everybody, no matter which opinion you take, because we have no written records about how and why the mask was made, I believe the debate about the mysterious mask will go on for a long time.

Now Ladies and Gentlemen, I will give you 5 minutes to observe the mask. And you can also freely photograph or film it, but please remember, don’t use flash here.

Thanks.

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