关于清华简《楚居》的思考之二——楚族起源及其地域变迁

On The Origin of Chu Written on Bamboo Slips in the Collection of Qinghua University(Part Two of a Series)—The Orgin and Regional Change of the Chu Ethnic Group

本文对笔者此前所撰《关于清华简〈楚居〉的思考之一》作出新的补充和必要修正,论述'楚族源于长江上游和中游广义的南方土著说'。史前时期楚族可能起源于四川西部岷山、若水地区;史前后期东徙,由川入鄂;楚先祖季连部落在夏商时期就已定居在湖北荆山及其周围地区,楚初都丹阳在今宜昌至沮漳河流域地区。

This paper is both a supplement to and a necessary revision of the author’s On The Origin of Chu(Part One),purporting the theory that“the Chu ethnic group originated from the natives of southern China in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River”.In prehistoric times,the Chu people probably lived in the Minshan and Ruoshui regions of western Sichuan;in late pre-historic times,they migrated eastward,from Sichuan to Hubei;the patriarch of the Chu,the Jilian Tribe,had already settled down in Jingshan and its surrounding regions in Hubei during the Xia and Shang dynasties;and Danyang,the fi rst capital of the Chu State,is in the area from the present-day Yichang to the Juzhang River basin.