Ba Shu culture
The Ba-Shu culture ( Chinese 巴蜀 文化 , Pinyin Bā-Shǔ Wénhuà , English Ba-Shu Culture ) is the Bronze Age culture of the Ba and Shu in the Sichuan Basin in the area of today's Chinese province of Sichuan and the government-direct city of Chongqing . It also included the area of southern Shaanxi and northern Yunnan .
The center of the Shu was the Chengdu area in western Sichuan and the Chongqing area in eastern Sichuan was the center of the Ba. The artifacts formerly known as Ba-Shu-type bronzes (Bā-Shǔ shì 巴蜀 式) are mainly relics of the Ba. Examples are the “willow-leaf bronze sword” (liǔyèxíng tóngjiàn 柳叶 形 铜 剑) and the “hollow-headed battle ax” (kōngshǒuyuè 空 首 钺).
The recently discovered boat-shaped coffins (chuánguānzàng 船棺 葬 "boat-coffin burial") are part of a Ba burial custom. The Shu relics were discovered near Chengdu.
literature
- 巴蜀 文化 图典 = Pictorial Encyclopedia. Ba-Shu Culture. Sichuan ren min chu ban she, Chengdu 1999, ISBN 7-220-04631-6 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Cihai ("Sea of Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5 , p. 46.