古江黄史考

Research on the Jiang and Huang States

古江黄两国存于西周至春秋前期,随着楚国北上、中原争霸的进程加快,同为赢姓淮夷的江黄两国惺惺相惜,通过战争、联姻、联盟等多种方式与其他诸侯国共同抗楚。但由于国力差距悬殊、军事实力、经济实力不足等多种因素的影响,两国最终相继为楚所灭。两国虽因弱小而终灭,但在4 0 0多年求生存谋发展的岁月中,促进了淮夷文化与中原文化、楚文化之间的交流和融合,为繁荣中华文化做出了自己的贡献。

Ancient two states, Jiang and Huang, which lived fi＇om the Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Spring and Autumn Period. With Chu accelerating the process of fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains, both Jiang and Huang, who were surnamed Ying, pitied each other and jointly resisted Chu through several ways, such as, wars, alliances, marriage, etc. Due to the disparity of national strength, the two countries were eventually destroyed by Chu, because of their weakness. However, the two countries promoted the communication among the Huaiyi culture, the Central Plains culture and the Chu culture in the past 400 years, eventually, making contributions to the prosperity of Chinese culture.