新泰周家庄东周墓出土吴越式兵器与艾陵之战

Xintai Zhoujiazhuang Eastern Zhou Cemetery Excavated Wu-Yue Style Weapons and the Battle of Ailing

新泰周家庄东周墓地出土的器物有两个突出的特点:一是随葬器物中兵器数量多,二是吴、越青铜兵器占有一定比例。这种一次性在吴、越以外地区大批量出土的现象,目前在全国尚不多见。由于周家庄墓地(今新泰、莱芜交界处)距艾陵之战作战地点较近,作战时间与周家庄墓地出土文物相对年代一致,推测两者应具有密切关系。

From March to May 2003,the Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Xintai City Museum jointly excavated the Zhoujiazhuang Eastern Zhou Cemetery in Xintai City.Together with the three excavated in March 2002 and the eight excavated in 2004,a total of 77 graves were excavated,and more than 2,000 cultural relics were unearthed.The artifacts excavated from Zhoujiazhuang Eastern Zhou Cemetery have two outstanding features:first,the number of weapons among the buried artifacts is large,with preliminary statistics of more than 300 pieces,accounting for about half of the total number of bronze weapons;second,among the 300 pieces of weapons,a certain proportion of bronze weapons from Wu and Yue are excavated,a phenomenon rarely seen in the country at present,where large quantities of weapons are excavated outside Wu and Yue at one time.In 484 B.C.,the allied forces of Wu and Yue fought a famous battle against Qi at the foot of the Great Wall of Qi,which is known as the Battle of Ailing.The battle site is close to the Zhoujiazhuang cemetery(at the junction of Xintai and Laiwu),and the battle time is consistent with the relative age of the cultural relics excavated from the Zhoujiazhuang cemetery,so the two should have a close relationship.