青铜的对话 黄河与长江流域商代青铜文明展

Dialogue of Bronze : The Bronze Cultures of Shang Dynasty in the Yellow River Vally and the Yangtze River Vally

黄河与长江,两条对中华文明产生重大而深远影响的河流,在漫长的流淌中孕育出各自不同的文化传统。公元前16世纪,雄踞黄河中下游的商王朝强势南下,直达长江中游今武汉地区。这是一次值得铭记的历史事件,它影响了此后数千年间中国社会的基本格局。出土文物,见证了这一事件。商人南下早在史前时期,黄河与长江流域就分别发展出了具有本土文化特色的地域文化,以两大流域为代表的南、北方文化,

Culture of Shang Dynasty that dominated the midstream and downstream of Yellow River expanded southward and broke the native independent cultures there in 16 century B.C. Native cultures in the Yangtze River absorbed and made a innovation of bronze techniques and ritual ideas from the north to serve themselves. The subsequent bronze cultures in the Yangtze River also impacted the Central Plain in turn,so that the between of the North and South China was finished which ushered into a new period in both areas and accelerated the integration of Chinese civilization.