夔国文化及早期楚民族文化的再讨论

A Further Discussion of Kui-State Culture and Early-Chu Ethnic Culture

夔国为楚国所封,是楚嫡系。夔国文化属楚文化发展系统,即属早期楚民族文化的三峡类型。夔国文化以鼎、釜、鬲、甗四种陶炊器为主要特点,它形成的时代在夔被楚灭亡的春秋中期前段。所以三峡地区春秋中期以前普遍存在的四种陶炊器共存的一种遗存应属于夔国文化,而庙坪周代第二期、第三期遗存非'夔国文化的考古学证据'。夔国文化是在三峡地区特殊的人文地理条件下形成和判断的。它是研究三峡地区商周文化和探溯楚文化之源的重要部分。

As a subordinate enfeoffed by the State of Chu,the State of Kui is certainly under the direct control of the Chu and its culture naturally falls into the Chu-state cultural development system,namely the Three Gorges Type of early-Chu ethnic culture.Kui-state culture is characterized by such pottery cooking vessels as ding,fu,li and yan,and the time frame of its formation is the mid-Spring and Autumn Period when the State of Kui was wiped out by the Chu.This is why the remains of these four pottery cooking vessels that coexist widely in the Three Gorges region before the Mid-Spring and Autumn Period should be considered part of Kui-state culture while the Miaoping Zhou-dynasty second-and third-phase remains should not be recognized as"archaeological evidence of Kui-state culture".Kui-state culture has formed in the unique human and geographic situation of the Three Gorges region and therefore should be judged accordingly.It is an important part of the study of Shang and Zhou culture in the Three Gorges region and of the exploration of the origin of Chu culture.