Which one, Hubei or Hunan, can represent Chu culture?

Both Hunan and Hubei have important connections with Chu culture. But it is generally believed that Hubei better represents Chu culture. It is now generally believed that Chu culture originated in Hubei. This is because the Chu State developed and multiplied in Hubei during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. A large number of cultural relics and relics of the people's lives in the pre-Qin period have been unearthed in Hubei, which is also the best proof.

Chu culture inherited the cultural characteristics of the Western Zhou culture and has amazingly brilliant cultural achievements. Developed to this day, Chu culture still has very distinctive cultural characteristics and is an excellent national cultural treasure of ours. Chu culture developed in the Western Zhou Dynasty. When Chinese culture and foreign barbarian culture merged and developed to form the Western Zhou civilization, Chu culture also absorbed the essence of various cultures at this time and gradually developed and emerged.

Nowadays, a group of ancient tombs from the Warring States Period have been discovered in Zaoyang City, Hubei Province. Archaeologists have identified that this is the tomb of a general from the Chu State. This general was imprisoned by the King of Chu because of his failure in the war. He was blamed for the killing, but the King of Chu regretted it later, so he buried the general generously. Jingzhou, Hubei Province, was once the capital of the Chu State. A large number of traces of human life were discovered here and many historical relics were excavated. Another ancient tomb group was discovered in Huangpo District, Wuhan City, which was later confirmed to be one of the important sites of the Chu Kingdom in the Zhou Dynasty. It has now become an important provincial cultural relic protection unit.

Xiangchu culture is also an important development context of Chu culture. The Hunan area was already the territory of the Chu State in the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period. At that time, the State of Chu established two counties in southern Hunan, namely Qianzhong and Changsha, so there was a strong Xiang-Chu culture here. At the same time, everyone knows that when Qu Yuan, a native of Chu, was exiled to the south of the Yangtze River, he lived in poverty and spent the second half of his painful life in the hell of Jiangxi. However, compared to the Jingchu culture and Bachu culture in Hubei, the Xiangchu culture in Hunan is less well-known, and there are fewer historical relics and traces of ancestors’ lives excavated. This is also because the living area of ??the Chu state during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was mainly in Hubei. area.