论鄂东南地区西周时期的考古学文化格局及政治势力变迁

Archaeological Culture and Political Chang of the Southeastern E Region in the Western Zhou Period

鄂东南地区自古以来就是文化交汇的重要地区。在青铜时代,由于这里拥有丰富的铜矿资源和具有扼关转枢的重要位置,更是中原王朝的重点经略地区。本文利用对本地区西周时期各种文化因素时空变迁的分析,并结合文献材料,讨论发生在这一时期的政治变迁。结果表明:西周王朝早期继续延用商王朝的统治策略,在清除了殷商遗民势力之后,西周王朝势力获得了较大程度的扩展。但随着地方势力的逐渐增强,宗周王朝对此地的经略逐渐艰难;西周中晚期,王朝统治策略变迁,开始借用地方势力统治地方,从而地方势力有一个较大程度的发展。西周晚期地方势力(鄂政权)最终被灭,代之而起的楚国势力"渔翁得利",逐渐成为了这一地区的主宰。

From ancient times the southeastern E region was an important area of cultural convergence. In the Bronze Age, thanks to its rich copper mineral resources and its important strategic location, it became even an important area pacified by the Central Plains dynasty. The present paper discusses the political changes happening in those times by analyzing the temporal and special changes of various cultural elements in this region during the Western Zhou Period. It concludes that in the early Western Zhou Period, the ruling tactics of the Shang Dynasty continued to be executed, but the Zhou Dynasty＇ s pacification was not without difficulty owing to the Yin -Shang survivals＇ and the local forces＇ influence. In the mid-and-late Western Zhou, the dynasty changed its rnhng tactics and began to rely on the local forces for strengthening its rule, so the local forces were developed to a greater extent. In the late Western Zhou, the local forces （E political power） were finally destroyed, and the Chu State＇ s forces took the place of E, reaped their gains and be- came gradually the dominant forces of this region.