Out with the old, in with the new
Archaeologist Xu Danyang sits with his colleagues at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Deyang, Sichuan province. Xu is a member of the archaeological team working at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Deyang, Sichuan province, which provides glimpses of an ancient civilization dating back more than 3,000 years. "After its excavation in 2020, I was assigned to Pit No 4 and became the team leader in charge of half a dozen people, so they started calling me 'Pit Manager'," Xu smiled. Among them were unique and huge objects, such as a peculiar "sky-reaching" bronze sacred tree, a dragon-shaped bronze statue with a "tiger head" and a standing figure appearing to look like the Japanese superhero Ultraman. Initially, the popularity of the Sanxingdui site surprised Xu, but later he found out that many young people are interested in not only the site's bizarre-looking artifacts but also his painstaking archaeological work done there.
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