先秦东江三角洲先民择地谋生述论

A Survey of How the People Lived Their Life by Choosing Suitable Settlements in Dongjiang Delta before Qin Dynasty

理解先秦岭南文化的形成和演变,对加深认识人类文化当有启发;而东江三角洲先民择地谋生的情况是这项研究内容的重要部分。论文运用历史地理学和生态学的知识和研究成果,梳理了距今约7,000年至战国时期的文化遗存。引进资源和经济形式等概念分析认为,在距今约7,000-3,500年间,人们选择岗丘为相对稳定的居住地,获取蛋白资源,以占有经济的经济形式谋生,自有其合理性。在距今约3,500-3,000年间,人们发展兼顾利用水生和陆生资源的初始农业经济,承占有经济之前启农业经济之后。两周时期所形成的古代商品经济相对发达的农业经济社会,是生产力水平、人们对资源的理解、经济形式的调整这三者相互作用的必然结果。

It will provide some hints for us to deepen our knowledge of human culture,if we understand better the origin and development of the Lingnan culture before Qin Dynasty,and one important part of this task is to search on how the people of Dongjiang Delta lived their life by choosing suitable settlements.Using the knowledge of historical geography,ecology,and the related researches,this article aims to analyzing the cultural ruins and relics from 5000 BCE to the Age of Warring States.With the help of such concepts as resources and economic mode etc.,it points out that the people living 7000-3500 years before us chose hills and slopes as their steady settlements in order to absorb the protein and that they live on the mode of possessing economy.But people living 3500-3000 years before us developed out the primitive agricultural economy,using both the resources of livings in the water and those of livings on the land.Such economy developed from the possessing economy and led to the agricultural economy.Later on,relatively advanced agricultural society came into being during the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.This development was the result of the interactions of three factors,that is,the level of productivity,people’s concept of resources and the adjustment of economic modes.