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Water, stone and high valleys

A regional view of Sichuan

Follow the Min and the Yangtze, then climb into the high valleys, to see how the regions and their places sit across Sichuan. Points are representative references, not boundaries, gates or routes.

Sichuan
Chengdu Deyang Leshan Ya'an Aba Ganzi Liangshan Yibin Zigong Heming Teahouse Jinsha Site Dujiangyan Sanxingdui Leshan Giant Buddha Mount Emei Mengding Mountain Dengchigou Hejiangmen Shenhai Well Jiuzhaigou Huanglong Taoping Qiang Village Suopo Towers Dege Printing House Jianchang Ancient City Mianyang Guangyuan Meishan Nanchong Luzhou Li Bai Memorial Yuewang Tower Mianyang Science City Qianfo Cliff Mingyue Gorge Huangze Temple Sansu Shrine Qingshen Bamboo Weaving Langzhong Ancient City Nanchong Silk Park Luzhou Old Pits Fubao Ancient Town Wuhou Shrine Du Fu Thatched Cottage

Approximate regional orientation · north is up · not for navigation

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Deyang.

Deyang is rarely the first name in a Sichuan itinerary. Its importance here is Guanghan, the county where the Sanxingdui pits were found, and the bronze masks that changed the story of ancient Shu.

A bronze head from Sanxingdui
A bronze head from Sanxingdui

Deyang

A bronze head from Sanxingdui

Masks that look past you

The bronze masks of Sanxingdui are not portraits. Their projecting eyes and wide mouths belong to a ritual world we can only partly read.

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Sanxingdui

Sixty-five kilos of face

The Sanxingdui bronze mask is 131 centimetres wide and 65.5 kilograms. It was made to be carried or mounted, and it is not a portrait.

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Places

Sanxingdui

The Guanghan site whose bronze masks, trees and figures date from about 4800 to 2800 years ago.
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  1. A bronze head from SanxingduiGary Todd / CC0 · CC0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.