A Research On The Society Of Liangzhu Culture

The society of Liangzhu Culture has been a focus for a long time. Two points are concerned: one is whether she had entered the civilized society; the other is that she is considered to be a divine authority society. Contrarily, seldom attention is paid to the following: the distributions of different social organizations and groups; the relationships among them.Comparatively speaking, the author focuses on the relationships of the districts and settlements, that is, different political groups reflected by such relationships. The article will disfigure various political groups and discuss the interactions among them through the analysis on the regional researches,settlements and "top products".The thesis consists of 5 chapters:Chapter 1: Preface. It concerns the research history,3 methods the thesis employs and the main pottery and jade articles of Liangzhu Culture. Then the author discusses the 4 stages of the Liangzhu Culture in order to do the following study.Chapter 2: The regional researches of the Liangzhu Culture. The Culture is divided into 6 districts: Hudong,Jiaxing,Liangzhu Hubei,Huxi and Ningshao. The author draws a conclusion of the former 3 districts' cultural characteristics and analyses the interactions among them for they comparatively are rich in archaeological materials.Chapter 3: The analysis of the Liangzhu's settlements. The author further categorizes the settlements of different regions into various groups after doing researches based on Chapter 2. And then, the arrangements of settlement groups and the relationships among them are studied.Chapter 4:The analysis on the "top products". The distributions of the jade articles in different sites are analyzed here aiming at exposing the exchange of the elites in Liangzhu Culture. At last, other top products will be discussed.Chapter 5: Conclusion. On the base of the further generalization and integration of Chapter 2,3 and 4, the author proposes such an idea: "aristocracy" , hoping to give further explanations to some issues. At the end, the author makes the final conclusion.