从考古发现看《山海经》中有关早期巴国的地望与年代

A Probe into the Location and the Age of the Ancient State of the Ba in Shan Hai Jing from Archaeological Discoveries

我国古籍《山海经》中关于“西南有巴国”的记载,一向很受人们重视。但这古巴国的地望究竟在哪里?距今年代有多久?可又众说纷纭,难于定论。直到鄂西长阳香炉石古文化遗址的发现,我国早期巴人的起源地和古巴国的地望与年代才豁然开朗。因该遗址出土了大量夏、商、周时期古代巴人的可靠遗物,并颇有代表性。故这一重要考古发现,不仅解开了巴人的起源之谜,而且也充分印证了《山海经》的记载是准确可信的,其史料价值不可低估。

It is recorded in Shah Hai Jing the ancient Chinese book that＂There was a State of the Ba nation in the south-west of China＂.There have been different versions as to where it was,and how-long a history it has.But not until the discovery of the historic site,with Changyang incense burner stone in the west of Hubei province,were these problems enlightened,where many reliable and representative relics of the ancient Ba people were unearthed.These important archaeological discoveries in the dynasties of the Xia,the Shan and the Zhou,not only define the origin of the Ba People,but justify the reliability of the records in Shan Hal Jing.