ZhongLi States Bronze Study

Huaihe region is between the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. As the Yangtze River, Huaihe River and the Hanjiang River formed a vast alluvial plain, there are numerous rivers and abundant water resources.,coupled with this region is in the border area between the subtropical humid climate and the warm humid climate, the agricultural has been developed. At the same time, the south of Jianghuai region have abundant copper resources, it has been the Central Plains region compete for control of the main areas since the Shang and Zhou dynasty. Since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, along with the decline of the dominant position of the royal family, as the inevitable way for the South Asian countries south to north hegemony and the North Asian countries north to south hegemony, the competement on the domination of the Huaihe region has been started..The Huaihe region has the indigenous culture, which is originally rooted here; but also frustration turned north eastward hegemony Chu, as well as Wu,which was in the war with Chu for hegemony.After this hegemony war, many original small countries of the Jianghuai region have moved toward the demise, and so as other cultures, what is left at last is the unified Chu culture.In 2006-2008 and 2007, the Archaeological Institute of Anhui Province have been successively excavated two large-scale tombs during the Spring and Autumn Period in the area of Anhui Bengbu, they were Tomb Shuangdun-1 of the Spring and Autumn Period in Bengbu city and Bianzhuang NO. 1 Tomb of the Spring and Autumn Period in Fengyang,Amhui.These two tombs is quite different from other previously excavated tombs of the Spring and Autumn period in this area with its unique circular burial pit, and these two tombs were both unearthed a large number of exquisite bronzes, some of which have inscriptions on bronze, which are can help us understand the country of these two tombs,the decade and so on. With the now existing excavated materials, this paper is trying to use the method of archaeological typology to undertook a detailed analysis of the unearthed bronze imformation and preliminary studies to determine the cultural landscape and its cultural origins.Next, we analyzed the bronzes of Chu, Wu and QunShu in the Huaihe region, which have specific unit unearthed. For the former, we mainly want to know as the power of Chu, Wu,how the two countries use their strong cultural status to some of the more vulnerable countries, conducted in areas of location and cultural invasion; for QunShu, we mainly analyzed in the context of great-Power rivalry, as the representative of small countries, is how to develop their own culture in the surrounding by big countries. According to the latest inscriptions unearthed information, we also focused on the inter-relationship between the Zhongli.and QunShu.Finally, based on the foregoing analysis, we know that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the two cultural systems of Wu and Chu have some impacts on the indigenous culture, that is the culture of Zhongli, which is originally rooted here. And as timer goes on, this effect was gradually increased. In the end, there only the Chu culture existed. Because of the discovery of the Tomb of Shuangdun and Bianzhuang, its unique form of Graves and features of object combinations and the type of it,showed us that the cultural exchange between the princes is a common, and the strong cultural influence on the weak culture is enormous in the process of the hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period.