Tour Guide Wording for Jinsha Site Museum (English V.0) Tour Guide Wordingfor Jinsha Site MuseumEdited by Chengdu Jinsha Site MuseumOctober 2006Tour 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. Lets 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 (16th11th 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 housing area and Graves have been discovered. About over 6000 pieces of precious cultural relics including gold wares, bronze wares, jade wares, stone wares, lacquered wooden wares along with a large number of ceramic wares, ivories, wild boar buckteeth and deer horns have been unearthed. These unearthed discoveries help us a lot in understanding in general the living style, production, custom for burying the death, religious worship of ancient Shu people in Jinsha Time; in addition, they are also helpful for us to draw an initial conclusion regarding the nature and age of the heritage site. Upon the evaluation of the scale of the Site and some high honorable traces and relics discovered in the Site, Jinsha Site can be conjectured once to be the Capital of ancient Shu State followed after San Xing Dui Civilization from late Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty. Jinsha Site is recognized as the most important archaeological discovery of China in early 21st Century as well as another significant archaeological discovery followed after San Xing Dui discovery in Sichuan Province. Discovery of Jinsha Site greatly extended the content of the ancient Shu culture, which is of great significance in research on the origin, development and decay and perish of the Shu culture; in particular, it provided us with reliable evidence to explain the miracle of sudden perish of San Xing Dui civilization. It is no doubt to advocate that Jinsha Site has reproduced the glory and prosperity of the ancient Shu State, recovered a missed history and revealed the 3000-year-long sleeping ancient civilization. Furthermore, this discovery has brought forward the history of Chengdu existence from 2300 years ago to about 3000 years ago. Like a thunder advocating the coming of spring, Jinsha Site started with a new page to look into the miracle of ancient Shu State. And also due to such discovery, Jinsha Village located in the northwest suburb of Chengdu City which was quite unknown by the public before year 2001 has become a magnetic field in West China attracting wide public concerns and peoples curiosity. (From the Entrance Gate to the Relics Site Hall) Jinsha Site had received wide concern from all works of the society when it was discovered. The State and CCP leaders have shown their special concerns and contributed their great efforts to the excavation, protection and construction of Jinsha Site. More than 20 top leaders from the China Central Government including Jiang Zemin, Zeng Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng, Qiao Shi, Song Ping, Wei Jianxing, Wang Lequan, Wu Yi, Li Lanqing, Li Tieying, Jiang Chunyun and Chen Zhili and so on have paid their visit and inspection one after anther to Jinsha Site, leaving their instructions to explore, protect and construct Jinsha Site well. Various governmental administration and departments of each level such as State Administration of Cultural Heritage, Sichuan Provincial CCP Committee, Sichuan Provincial Peoples Government, Chengdu Municipal CCP Committee and Chengdu Municipal Peoples Government also have contributed their high regard and support to the protection and construction of Jinsha Site. Early in the end of 2002, Chengdu Municipal CCP Committee and Peoples Government specified the boundary for the site p