A Discussion On The Tombs In Jiangling Area From The Late Warring States Period To Qin Dynasty

The tombs from the late Warring States period to Qin dynasty are the main content of the dissertation. The areas of Jiangling (江陵) whose center is Jinancheng (纪南城) is located between the Yangtze and Hanshui River, including the counties of Jingzhou (荆州) , Jingmen (荆门) , Dangyang (当阳) , Zhijiang (枝江 ) , etc. There were three kinds of tombs which are Chu people tombs, the tombs of the people under the Qin's rule and Qin people's tombs during the periods of the late Warring States and Qin Dynasty.In the preface, I'd like to retrospect the history, the current studies and the achievement of Chu Culture study. Then I discuss the existing questions and the meaning of studying the evolvement from Chu culture to Qin and Han cultures. And I make out the methods and thoughts in the dissertation especially. I'd like to study the tombs by analyzing the combination of funerary objects.In the first chapter, I briefly introduce the excavation of the tombs from the late WarringStates period to Qin Dynasty in the areas of Jiangling.I'd like to discuss the Chu's tombs in the late Warring States period in the second chapter. By analyzing the difference in the funerary objects of various tombs, I classify the tombs in the areas of Jiangling at that time. And on the base of the study, I study the funeral ceremony, the class of the society and the difference in the use of funerary objects of different class. In the late Warring States, there were four classes, including civilian, lower Shi, middle shi and upper Shi. The four classes had specially designated funerary objects which were used to distinguish their social status. The upper Shi used the combination of 4 copper-ding, 2 copper-ding or 4 earthen-ding. The middle and lower shi used the combination of 2 copper or earthen-ding, but couldn't use the intact copper funerary objects. At the same time, the civilian also had three classes: the lower had nothing when they were buried, the middle used the daily pottery and the upper used the pottery imitating the copper funerary objects. The polarization between the rich and the poor existed in each class, which was incarnated by the increase and decrease of funerary objects. There also were differences in the shape of funerary objects of various class.In the third chapter, I discuss some tombs of Chu people's under the rule of Qin. Some change, including the combination and the shape of funerary objects, took place in the funeral ceremony of those people who tried to maintain their own traditional culture.I discuss the Qin's tombs in the forth chapter, amend the chronic-sequence of Qin's tombs in the areas of Mangling and the historical course of the evolvement from Chu culture to Qin culture. And I find out the difference in the evolvement between the adjacent areas and the remote areas of Jinancheng by analyzing the newly materials of the cemetery Luopogang( J^^RI ) . Around Jinancheng, under the severe rule of Qin, Qin culture replaced Chuculture and there were not so much ingredients of Chu culture when Qin's unifying, which was different from the situation of the remote areas.In the epilogue, I'd like to discuss the interact relationship between the convert of politic and culture. The two convert is not isochronous, the former dominates the latter, on the contrary, the latter promote the former. In the end, they become in harmony.