湖北省江陵县北约5公里的纪南城,是东周时代楚国的郢都故址,当时称为纪郢。“楚之郢都,车毂击,民肩摩,市路相排突,号为朝衣鲜而暮衣蔽也”(桓谭:《新论》),纪南城曾经是一座十分繁华的大都市,是我国东周时代最大的城市之一。当年的郢都,不但是楚国的政治、军事、文化中心,而且是楚国的经济中心。今日的郢都故址,盛产水稻、油菜和各种鱼类、家禽。纪南城一带是今江陵县著名的农业生产基地,是富足的鱼米之乡。纪南城及其周围的农业生产有十分悠久的历史,早在新石器时代,这里就有以种植水稻为主,以养殖为辅 Ji’nan City, about 5 kilometers north of Jiangling County in Hubei Province, was the site of the capital of Chu in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and was then called Ji’e. “Chu are all die, car hub hit, Min Shumu, the city of sudden conflict, the number for the clothing fresh and twilight” (Huan Tan: “New Theory”), Ji Nancheng was once a very bustling big Metropolis is one of the largest cities in the era of Eastern Zhou Dynasty. In the same year, Qiongdu was not only the political, military and cultural center of Chu, but also the economic center of Chu. Today’s Qidu site, rich in rice, rape and all kinds of fish, poultry. Ji Nancheng area is this famous Jiangling County agricultural production base, is rich in land of plenty. Ji Nancheng and its surrounding agricultural production has a very long history, as early as the Neolithic period, there is a rice-based cultivation, supplemented by aquaculture