Sanxingdui - famous Mask Museum/Jan 2014
Now that I have finished writing about our Christmas trip home, I will start writing about China again. We have been having trouble with the Chinese government lately. They are giving us problems issuing diplomatic license plates. We have 12 cars that still don't have license plates. Our car arrived in October from Beijing. We never had problems registering it there, but they are giving us all trouble registering our cars here. So 12 cars remain without license plates. It is such a bummer. Since our car arrived from Beijing they gave us a temporary plate for a few weeks. It was so nice to go shopping without having to take a taxi. And so nice not to all pile in a taxi to church or any other place we want to go. But a few days before leaving for vacation the temporary plates expired. Just recently, the DMV gave us all temporary plates again for a month. Today I am writing this on Feb 9th. These plates will expire this week.
A month ago, right after we got the plates, we took that opportunity drive a couple hours away to the Sanxingdui Museum. Lincoln really wanted to go here because he learned about this museum and the masks in his school in Beijing. They even made a copy of the most famous one in art class. So we drove our car to the museum, we also piled 3 more people in our car with us. Katherine Ellison and her 2 kids Morgan - 7, Lincoln's friend, and Jane - 4, Izzy's friend.
Here are some facts about the Museum. It was pretty amazing seeing all those Bronze Masks and other things that were thought to have been from the 12-11th centuries BCE!!! Crazy!
Sanxingdui (Chinese: 三星堆; pinyin: Sānxīngduī; literally "three stars mound") is the name of an archaeological site and the previously unknown Bronze Age culture for which it is the type site. Sanxingdui is now believed to be the site of a major ancient Chinese city in what is now Sichuan, China. The Bronze Age culture which inhabited it was re-discovered in 1987 whenarchaeologists excavated remarkable artifacts, that radiocarbon dating dated as being from the 12th-11th centuries BCE.[1
In 1929, a farmer unearthed a large stash of jade relics while digging a well, many of which found their way through the years into the hands of private collectors. Generations of Chinese archaeologists searched the area without success until 1986, when workers accidentally found sacrificial pits containing thousands of gold, bronze, jade, and pottery artifacts that had been broken (perhaps ritually disfigured), burned, and carefully buried.
This is the famous Bronze Mask. Lincoln made one similar in his art class last year. Kind of frightening!
Everyone is getting ready for Chinese New Year! Love these Lanterns!
Kelly and I are standing in front of the place of Sacrifice. I got my haircut the day before and he straightened it. I really like it, but can't do it myself so it must stay curly.
And cute Mabel. Her hair is growing more now and more curly. She is so cute!
A month ago, right after we got the plates, we took that opportunity drive a couple hours away to the Sanxingdui Museum. Lincoln really wanted to go here because he learned about this museum and the masks in his school in Beijing. They even made a copy of the most famous one in art class. So we drove our car to the museum, we also piled 3 more people in our car with us. Katherine Ellison and her 2 kids Morgan - 7, Lincoln's friend, and Jane - 4, Izzy's friend.
Here are some facts about the Museum. It was pretty amazing seeing all those Bronze Masks and other things that were thought to have been from the 12-11th centuries BCE!!! Crazy!
Sanxingdui (Chinese: 三星堆; pinyin: Sānxīngduī; literally "three stars mound") is the name of an archaeological site and the previously unknown Bronze Age culture for which it is the type site. Sanxingdui is now believed to be the site of a major ancient Chinese city in what is now Sichuan, China. The Bronze Age culture which inhabited it was re-discovered in 1987 whenarchaeologists excavated remarkable artifacts, that radiocarbon dating dated as being from the 12th-11th centuries BCE.[1
In 1929, a farmer unearthed a large stash of jade relics while digging a well, many of which found their way through the years into the hands of private collectors. Generations of Chinese archaeologists searched the area without success until 1986, when workers accidentally found sacrificial pits containing thousands of gold, bronze, jade, and pottery artifacts that had been broken (perhaps ritually disfigured), burned, and carefully buried.
This is the famous Bronze Mask. Lincoln made one similar in his art class last year. Kind of frightening!
Everyone is getting ready for Chinese New Year! Love these Lanterns!
Kelly and I are standing in front of the place of Sacrifice. I got my haircut the day before and he straightened it. I really like it, but can't do it myself so it must stay curly.
And cute Mabel. Her hair is growing more now and more curly. She is so cute!
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