It has an area of about 1000 square meters, on a small earth hummock of the south bank of Miao Lake (part of Chang Lake). Few Paleolithic sites are found in Jingzhou urban, and the most famous one is Jigongshan Paleolithic site, located in about five kilometers north of the ancient Jingzhou city. the Old Stone Age (Three million years ago to ten thousand years ago) is a time that human made and used chipped stone tool. The word writing style is very similar with that in the inscriptions on bronze of the Western Zhou Dynasty, so we regard them as the earliest origin of word “Jing”. In recent years, in archaeological excavation of the prehistoric era in Jingzhou and the surrounding areas, there are two inscriptions on potteries. In the inscriptions on ancient bronze objects of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Chu people who had been repeatedly against the central dynasty time were called “Chu Jing” or “Fan Jing (as traitors)”. Since the Chu Zi (the king of Chu State is viscount) had been swarmed within the area of ancient Jingzhou, as a result, people of Chu were called “Jing Ren” or “Jing Man (as a derogatory name)” in the books of the pre-Qin period the Chu State also was called “Jing State”. In the view of history, seen by the ancients, “Jing” and “Chu” could not be separated. In another word, it mainly includes hodiernal Hubei and Hunan provinces. ![]() According to this book, we know that Jingzhou was one of the nine states in Da Yu Period: “Jing and Hengyang belong to Jingzhou”, and this means north from Jing Mountain of Nanzhang region in Hubei Province, south to the vast areas south of Hengshan Mountain in Hunan Province are in the scope of ancient Jingzhou. ![]() Chu Culture Cultural relics before Chu culture's formation the scope of area covered by Jingzhou in the prehistoric age has been recorded in the geography of the earliest writings - built in about Warring States Period – named Yu Gong. History Culture Jingzhou has a profound historical culture, which nurtured Chu culture, Three Kingdoms culture, Guan Yu culture, etc., inheriting the extremely rich heritage of folk cultural relics.
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