The Cultural Transformation In Han Dynasty Of Suzhou Area Can Be Seen From The Tomb Materials

Because of the particularity of Wu Yue culture and the important position of economic civilization since Tang and Song Dynasty, Suzhou area has attracted much attention to scholars. Since modern times, the research of this area has begun earlier. This is a beginning that Wei Juxian set up an association named "The Wu Yue Institute of History" in 1936. After the founding of the people’s Republic of China, there was a boom of Wu culture research. Related works were emerged in large numbers after Mid 1980s, but most of them are studied from the point of literature.This is not enough to the research on Suzhou area in Han Dynasty, that May be there is not enough historical records to Han Dynasty,at the same time, it’s mentioned with the ruling class’activities. On the other hand, it’s the first time Suzhou area fits into the long-term stability of the unified rule, also it’s a important transition phase from martialism to cultural preference,so it is very necessary to research Han Dynasty.As one of excavation unit, School of history’Department of Archaeology of Nanjing University participated in rescue excavation that for infrastructure projects in Suzhou. The main part of trial diggings is D154 that constitute wall of whistle stop Hefeng. D154 has a great age span, but many of is Han Dynasty Tombs. After preliminary observation, there is Sequential order,that’s different to existing burial materials in Suzhou area, so this paper will have a typology analysis. And then there is a comparison between objects with Characteristics of the times in these tombs to The same kind of device in the known age. On the other hand, the age of these tombs is tentatively inferred according combined with previous research results about the time series in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.At present, the data of this area has been published in the early Han Dynasty from the early Western Han Dynasty to the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in addition to the excavation of the report, mostly in the early publication of the report. These materials will be listed in the table in the text, there are some no specific information will be described in detail the overall characteristics. After that, this paper makes cultural factor analysis to Suzhou area’s Han Dynasty tombs through all the burial materials. Detailed analysis is mainly from the comparison of the representative tomb of the rest of the burial system, buried way, combination of burial objects and classes with the former period or during the same period, to see whether there are similar or inheritance relationship.From the death of Wu Kingdom to the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, the Suzhou region has been occupied by Yue, Chu and Qin regime, which has been in a more important position in politics. The change of the new regime is accompanied by the change of the main body and the culture, but there are cultural factors that will not disappear with the regime change, so these political power in the Western Han Dynasty have left their own cultural factors. These cultural factors in Han Dynasty don’t continue down, some of them blend in the mainstream and slowly disappeared, some of them although faded but still have reservations. This paper will have a analysis to the present situation of various cultural factors in Suzhou area. Finally, it focuses on the role of various cultural factors in the field, on the basis of the cultural attributes of this area to judge.Of course, because the data is still limited, the current analysis can only represent some of the situation, anyhow, the data and the analysis in this paper could provide some help for later researchers.