The 2012 Chengdu Jinsha Sun Festival will be hosted in Jinsha Site Museum from January 20 to February 15, 2012.

For the first time, the museum will hold a temporary exhibition named Treasures of Yinxu to show the 60 years' archaeological achievements of Yinxu ruin in Anyang city, Henan province. The prosperity of the late Shang dynasty’s capital is presented through 140 pieces (groups) of national-treasure-class cultural relics, including Yin Ruins oracle bone script, carriages 3000 years old, bronze and jade artifacts unearthed from the tomb of Fu Hao, China's first female general in history.

The festival will amaze visitors with the horned dragon lantern, a giant one dubbed as the “first dragon in Shu” with a height of 15 meters and a length of nearly 300 meters. Also, other attractions include the colorful peacock crystal lamp formed by stringing together more than 10,000 crystal bottles elaborately, the five-colored fairy bird lanterns praising Yu the Great for taming the flood, and 20 other lantern groups of visual impact.

During the festival, visitors will experience the pleasure of urban skiing even though it commonly won't snow in Chengdu's wintertime. A verisimilar venue of ice and snow cheating the senses will be a cynosure. The dry-land ski ground situates on the east side of the Exhibition Hall. With a length of 80 meters and a height of 154 meters, it is dubbed as the largest one outdoors made with environment-friendly materials.

The museum charges a discounted price of 30 yuan per visit.

As the year turns a new page, Jinsha witnesses it's unearthed Sun and Immortal Birds Gold Ornament identified as the main pattern on Chengdu's city logo. It is also the first time in the world when a local unearthed cultural relic speaks for a city.