The gold artifacts of the Sanxingdui culture include gold rod, face-screen, tiger, fish-shaped ornament, leaf-formed ornament, gold block and so on. The gold rod excavated from No.1 sacrificial pit is 1.42m in length and about 500g in weight, with flat-carved designs of human head, birds, fish and crop ears on the upper part. The gold face-screen was still worn on the bronze head sculpture when first excavated from the earth. The gold wares of Sanxingdui are not only great in number but also large in size, which proves the first discovery in the Shang (Dynasty) Culture.

The gold rod is made of a wooden core coated with thick gold wrappings, 142cm in length and

2.3cm in diametre and with 46cm-long ornamental line designs on the upper end of the rod. Over 500g in weight, the rod is so far the largest gold artifact of the Shang Dynasty ever found in China. Its convex line design by double intaglios is extremely exquisite. The cutting is made along the two sides of the line to make the central line convex and thin as hair so as to render a strong cubic effect. With regard to the structure of the design, the equilibrium of the fish and the bird has strengthened the ornamentalbeauty of the design.

The gold face-screen and gold tiger are made by mould-pressing of thin gold plate and their detail features are conspicuous. Seen from the workmanship of mould-pressing, hollowing-out and carving of these exquisite gold artifacts, the Shu people then had already considerable knowledge of the properties of gold the very rare metal so that they could create with ease such exquisite artistic wares of it. These advanced technologies were already in lead of gold manufacture at that time.