中国、德国古代熬盐情况浅析

PRELIMIANARY ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT BRINE-BOILING IN CHINA AND GERMANY

我国科学家在对渝东三峡地区挖掘与考古工作中发现不少陶水管、陶筒瓦及陶制尖底器和圜底器等与煮盐相关的器物残片。在忠县(?)井坝和涂井坝,其公元前1300-公元前204年的商周或更早的时期文化堆积层厚度超过10m。而德国学者文德林·雷丁尔等发掘出在维尔市西北部发现的盐锅及相关熬盐灶残体。其时间应与中国春秋-新朝(约公元前722-公元23年)大致相当。史料显示出古代不同地域、不同民族的人类与自然相处过程中的某种趋同性很值得研究。

In the course of archaeological excavation in the Three Gorges district in the eastern part of Sichuan, our scientists found a large amount of bits of broken earthenware pipes, broken earthenware tubes and pottery clay-made, bottom-pointed, broken utensils which are believed to be used for boiling brine to make salt. The cultural accumulation zone sandwiching these bits for the period of 1300B.C.-24B.C. or the times of the Shang and Zhou dynasties thicken more than 10m. in Ganjingba and Tujingba villages of Zhongxian county. A similar case happened also in Germany where German scholar W. Leidinger, etc. found damaged articles of brine-boiling cauldrons and the related broken stoves at the northwestern part of Werl, whose times are correspond, more or less, to those of the Spring and Autumn-the Eastern Han (722B.C.-23A.D.). This identicalness mankind shows while getting along with the nature in spite of differing greatly in region and nationality is well worth studying.