the decoration of the bronze dragon equals to an emotional language of people in the Shang society

The bronze sculpture are the fruits of the hard-working Chinese people. This "alkali stone, of frying the salt. Land Gang halogen, not grain." Until modern times, this place is still a severe iodine deficiency, Graves disease endemic areas. We know that an important feature of the hyperthyroid patients, the eyes protruding. Therefore, the Shu Wang Cancong is may be a severe hyperthyroid patients, during his lifetime eyes extra bulge. The when in shaping Cancong statue, his descendants, to seize this feature and "deification", which is Shu Wang Cong statue has been portrayed as the reason of the Zongmu.384 cm high bronze sacred tree, a tree nine branches stand the habitat of birds, hook hanging branches under fruit tree trunk next to a dragon aid tree down, very vivid, mysterious of the ancient myth of hibiscus image reflected the a. Sanxingdui bronzes characterized by a large number of figures, birds, beasts, Chongyi, plant shape. Therefore, the decoration of the bronze dragon equals to an emotional language of people in the Shang society, reflects the spirit, pursuit and ideas of the Shang people. Bronze heads, the faces of the people like and human mask on behalf of worship of ancestral spirits; bronze the legislation portrait and Kneeling Figure on behalf of the ritual prayer and presided over the ritual; eyes protruding forward bronze animal masks and flat bronze Animal mask, etc. may Shu worship of natural gods; imitation plants in the shape of the characteristics of the bronze sacred tree, which reflects the religious consciousness of the Shu plant worship. Ancestor worship and the animals, plants and other natural gods worship as the main religious concepts, which is the spiritual world of the early Shu main.
Two pit unearthed bronzes, in addition to bronze container with Central Plains Shang culture and style of the bronze culture of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the remaining types of artifacts and shape have a very strong local characteristics, they unearthed the first time to show the world the Shang Dynasty highly developed and stylized look of the late Shu bronze civilization. The use of bird pattern on the bronze sculpture is especially pronounced. It is worth noting: the relics of the "eyes" not only a large number of bronze relics unearthed in Sanxingdui, performance, and these relics rare, exotic, such as a mask, the eye is extremely exaggerated, pupil part of the cylindrical columnar protrusion, long up to 16.5 cm. Again so sudden mesh copper mask, eyes prominent cylinder 9 cm long.
 In addition, there are dozens of pairs of eye-shaped copper ornaments, including the diamond-shaped, hook-shaped cloud, round bubble-shaped, so many forms, surrounding both mortise holes, can be assembled or separate suspension lift Bong, showing the unique eye attention. Why the ancient Shu people attach so much importance to portray the eyes? Why copper mask eye pupil section for cylindrical? Zhou people preferred this type of patterns to be on the bronze sculpture . It turned out that the worship of ancestors of the ancient Shu people. As mentioned earlier, Huayang "reads:" Shu Hou Cancong, the head vertical, before the king "burial" Zongmu mound. According to scholars, the so-called "Zongmu, which means a cylindrical bulge in the eyes of this copper mask, unearthed in Sanxingdui bronzes sudden mesh copper mask, it is the ancient statues of King Shu Cong. According to historical records, Shu Wang Cong originally living in Sichuan, northwest the Minshan upstream of the Munsan County.