从出土材料论"神农与荆楚文化"

The study on relationship of Shennong and Jingchu culture from unearthed literature

神农为传说中农耕的创始人、医药的发明者,神州大地流传了许多有关神农地域文化相关的记载及传说。通过综合梳理相关文献记载,并引证近年来的出土资料新证,对神农与荆楚文化的渊源作一探究,发现神农氏的传说,在中国大陆西方和南方都有流传,恰好与农业的起源相对应。近年来湖北、湖南地区出土的大量精美文物和简帛文书,证实春秋战国时期楚地文化发达,并非传统印象中的蛮夷之地,神农与荆楚文化之渊源颇为深远。

Shennong is the founder of cultivation,inventor of medicine.There are various recordation and legends about Shennong regional culture around the whole Chinese nation.The author studied the source of Shennong and Jingchu culture by comprehensively sorting relative literature recordation,citing unearthed materials in recent years as evidence,and found that the legends of Shennong is wide-spread in both western and southern China which corresponding to the origin of farming.What is more,a lot of delicate cultural relics and bambooslip and silk manuscripts have been found in Hubei and Hunan in recent years,which proved that Chu was not a land of barbarians in traditional view but an area with developed culture,and Shennong had a deep historic relation with Jingchu culture.