China News Agency, Beijing, March 19th (Reporter Sun Zifa) The allusion "Although Chu has three households, Qin will kill Chu" from "Historical Records" is impressive. What kind of "love and hatred" has been played between Qin and Chu, Qin culture and Chu culture?

The latest research on the cemetery of the Qin and Han Dynasties in Zhengjiahu, Yunmeng County, Hubei, which was selected as one of the six new archaeological discoveries in China in 2021, may give future generations a glimpse.

　　Bai Yunxiang, former deputy director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and chair professor of Shandong University, accepted an interview with a reporter from China News Agency on the 19th, saying that the excavation of the Zhengjiahu cemetery is a new archaeological discovery and a great discovery, which will deepen the chemical community's attitude towards Qin people and Chu people. A study of important historical issues such as getting along with each other, how the Qin people governed their occupied territories, and how the Qin and Chu cultures influenced and merged with each other.

　　He said that the Zhengjiahu Cemetery in Yunmeng, Hubei is a group of tombs from the late Warring States Period to the beginning of the Han Dynasty. There are both Chu culture tombs in areas A and B, and Qin culture tombs in area C. The connotation and evolution of their coexistence are undoubtedly It reproduces the history and culture of this region from Chu to Qin to Han and its evolution process, and is a microcosm of the historical and cultural changes during the formation of the Qin and Han multi-ethnic unified centralized states.

　　It is worth noting that since the 1970s, more than 10 Qin and Han cemeteries in the Warring States Period, including the Sleeping Tiger Di Qin Tomb, the Longgang Qin Tomb, and the Dafentou Western Han Tomb, have been excavated successively in the Yunmeng area, especially the surrounding area of ​​the King City of Chu, all of which have important discoveries.

On this basis, the excavation research of Zhengjiahu cemetery has made many new important discoveries, such as the paintings of burial utensils, long inscriptions, etc. are all new discoveries, as well as a large number of other precious cultural relics such as lacquerware of the Qin culture, as well as many funeral relics, etc. .

　　Bai Yunxiang pointed out that as far as the paintings of burial tools are concerned, although the tomb of Marquis Yi of Suixian County in the early Warring States Period was discovered, it was not a figure painting. Delicate and rich in connotation, it opened a precedent for tomb painting in the Han Dynasty, especially for figure painting.

　　As far as the long-wen goblet is concerned, the long-wen wooden goblet unearthed from the Zhengjiahu cemetery dates from the late Warring States Period. It is not only the earliest in age and the longest in writing, but also contains "Cewen" that has not been recorded in handed down documents. , Wooden three-edged goblet and six-edged goblet are different in shape and content.

　　In addition, Tomb No. 275 and No. 276 in Zhengjiahu Cemetery are both Qin-style and Chu-style bronzes coexisting; the paintings of burial objects unearthed in Tomb No. 234 are from the tombs of Qin culture and there are strong elements of Qin culture in the images, but the coffin structure of the tomb , Wooden coffins with doors and windows also have the characteristics of Chu culture.

These new archaeological discoveries raise many new questions, which will promote further in-depth research and discussion in the archaeological community, both macroscopically and microscopically.

　　Bai Yunxiang believes that new discoveries such as the Zhengjiahu cemetery, combined with the achievements of scientific and technological archaeology in various fields, undoubtedly enriched and activated the historical culture at that time with scientific empirical materials, including the funeral culture of the Chu and Qin people, animal and plant resources and their utilization, Health and disease status, food and diet structure, and production techniques for pottery, bronze, lacquered wood, jade, glass, textiles, etc., cultural exchanges between Qin and Chu, and the integration of people.

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