早期楚文化初析

A Preliminary Study on Early Chu's Culture

江汉地区的早期楚文化遗存最早出现于夏商时期的盘龙城遗址,以鼎式鬲为代表,主要分布于鄂东地区。晚商至西周早期汉水东北地区出现柱足鬲遗存。西周中晚期时早期楚文化正式形成,出现早期楚式鬲和完整的早期楚文化陶器组合。此时早期楚文化遍及江汉地区,重心则在鄂西地区。夏商时期的早期楚文化与楚国无关,西周时期的楚国也只是早期楚文化中很小的一支。

Panlongcheng, dated to the Xia and Shang period and mainly distributed to eastern Hubei province, is the earliest manifestation of Chu culture in Jianghan area, which is represented by the ding- cauldron style li-tripod. Cultural manifestation with vessels of Column-foot li-tripod appeared in nor- theastern Han River area, dated to late Shang to early Western Zhou period. Chu manifestations during the middle-to-late Western Zhou period is represented by a combination of early Chu style li-tripod and and other early Chu pottery vessels. Meanwhile, sites of early Chu culture are distributed all over the Jianghan area, but the center remained to be located in western Hubei province. Early Chu culture in Xia and Shang period has little to do with cultural manifestation of Chu State, while the Chu State duing the Western Zhou was only a small part of early Chu culture.