金沙遗址博物馆讲解材料(英文).pdf

Tour Guide Wording for Jinsha Site Museum Edited by Chengdu Jinsha Site Museum October 2006 1 Tour Guide Wording for Jinsha Site Museum (Tour guide starting from the Southern Entrance Gate) Good morning (afternoon) everyone, welcome your presence and visit to Jinsha Site Museum. My name is , a tour guide special for Jinsha Site Museum. It is a great honor for me to stay with you today in your visit to Jinsha Site Museum. You may be ignored that you have already stood upon the land where splendid Jinsha cultural relic site with a profound history of more than 3000 years has been buried. Let’s go through the tunnel of time for a journey of Jinsha discovery. (After access into the Museum Entrance Gate) Discovered on February 8, 2001, Jinsha Site is identified as the ancient Shu cultural relic attract which was prosperous in the Shang Dynasty (16th—11th Century BC) and Zhou Dynasty (after the Shang Dynasty to 221 BC). Jinsha Site is situated in the northwest of Chengdu City, between the 2nd Ring Road and the 3rd Ring Road, 5 kilometers away from Chengdu City Center the Tianfu Square. Jinsha Site was discovered by accident in a capital construction site which was on progress. This discovery was awarded as “2001 China Top Ten Archaeological Discoveries” in the same year when it was unearthed. Through years’ archaeological study and excavation, it is quite certain that the site distribution is scattered over 5 square kilometers around. Within this historical cultural site, some important cultural heritages such as large-scale palace-style buildings, sites for worship activities, civilian ho