Of interest to scholars studying Sanxingdui, however, is the following passage from Huayang Guozhi: "There was a nobleman of Shu whose zongmu were the cause of his ascendance to the throne" Scholars long puzzled over the meaning of zongmu, which literally means "vertical eyes."
根據晉人所撰寫的《華陽國志》中提及：「有蜀侯蠶叢，其目縱，始稱王。」過去學者們對於「縱目」的意義百思不解，有的推測是額頭中間多長一隻眼睛；有的推想是在眼睛上刺青；也曾有人提出就是眼睛向外長出；也有學者主張所謂縱目不過是一種形容。