A video blogger has amazed netizens recently for reproducing a gold scepter which was uncovered in Sanxingdui Ruins in Guanghan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. Photo: Xinhua

A video blogger has amazed netizens recently for reproducing a gold scepter which was uncovered in the Sanxingdui Ruins in Guanghan, Southwest China's Sichuan Province.

It took four months, 250,000 yuan ($38,596) and 600 grams of gold to make the gold scepter, which is 143 centimeters long, 2.3 centimeters wide and weighs about 500 grams," said the blogger Caiqian to a media reporter, according to Xinhua News on Weibo.

The blogger also said that to make the scepter he had to have more connection with the Sanxingdui, he used a tree branch that he found in the ruins of Sanxingdui ancient city as a mold to shape the scepter.

Unearthed cultural relics at the Sanxingdui site, such as a mysterious bronze mask, a more than 2-meter-tall bronze statuette, a mask made of gold, and a gold scepter are windows giving modern people a peek into the ancient cultures that existed in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River during the pre-Qin period (before 221 BC). 

The gold scepter unearthed in Sanxingdui is now kept by Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan. With elaborate carving decorative patterns on it, the scepter is the largest piece of gold ware of the same period that has been unearthed in China.

Xinhua