Which can represent Chu culture, Hubei or Hunan?

Hunan and Hubei are closely related to Chu culture. But it is generally believed that Hubei is more representative of Chu culture. It is generally believed that Chu culture originated in Hubei, because Chu developed and multiplied in Hubei during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and a large number of cultural relics and relics that people lived in before Qin Dynasty were unearthed in Hubei, which is also the best proof.

Chu culture has inherited the cultural characteristics of Western Zhou culture and has amazing brilliant cultural achievements. Until today, Chu culture still has very distinctive cultural characteristics and is our excellent national cultural treasure. Chu culture developed in the Western Zhou Dynasty. At that time, China culture and foreign barbarian culture merged to form the Western Zhou civilization at that time, and Chu culture also absorbed the essence of various mandarin cultures, which gradually developed and appeared.

Now the ancient tombs of the Warring States Period have been discovered in Zaoyang City, Hubei Province. According to the identification of archaeologists, this is the tomb of a general of Chu. The general was blamed and killed by the king of Chu because he was defeated in the war, but later the king of Chu regretted it and gave the general a heavy burial. Jingzhou, Hubei Province, once the capital of Chu State, has also found many traces of human life and excavated many historical relics here. Another ancient tomb group was discovered in Huang Po District of Wuhan City, which was later proved to be one of the important sites of Chu State in Zhou Dynasty, and has now become an important cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level.

Xiangchu culture is also an important development vein of Chu culture. Hunan was already the territory of Chu in the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period. At that time, Chu set up two counties in southern Hunan, central Guizhou and Changsha, so there was a strong Hunan-Chu culture here. At the same time, as we all know, Qu Yuan, a native of Chu State, lived in poverty and spent the rest of his miserable life in Jiangxi hell when he was exiled to the south of the Yangtze River. However, compared with Jingchu culture and Bachu culture in Hubei, Hunan's Xiangchu culture is less well-known, with few historical relics and traces of ancestors' life, which is also because Chu's living area was mainly in Hubei during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.