清华简《楚居》与楚族起源

清华简《楚居》篇公布之后引起了学界极大关注,这是因为该篇记载了楚族早期历史的状况,它为进一步研究楚族早期历史发展中的重要问题提供了新材料。经过学者的研究,许多问题都已经取得了重要进展。本文在对《楚居》篇文本分析的基础上,重点论述《楚居》篇中记载的季连事迹,认为楚族起源于中原说的观点在目前来看是最为合理的。

The publishing of the text Chu Ju of Tsinghua Bamboo Slips has caused great concern from ac- ademia. That is because the text describes some of the early history of the Chu nationality and it provides some new material for the further study of the important issues on the early history of Chu nationality. Great progress has been made on the researeh of many of the issues. Based on the text analysis on Chu Ju, this article atta- ches great importance on the deeds of Ji Lian. Finally it holds the opinion that it is reasonable that Chu nation- ality was originated from the Central Plains.