先秦时期,广东是否存在本地独立的青铜文化?或者说广东是否经历过青铜时代?这些学术问题自50年代以来便有争议。而数十年来,经过广东及香港等地考古工作者的辛勤劳动,获得了丰硕的成果,不仅在西江流域、韩江流域,抑或粤东的兴梅地区,还是粤西的湛江地区,均出土了大量的青铜器。据粗略统计,出土的青铜器总数已超过 Did the existence of a local independent bronze culture in Guangdong during the Pre-Qin period, or did Guangdong experience the Bronze Age? These academic issues have been controversial since the 1950s. For decades, the arduous efforts of archaeologists in Guangdong and Hong Kong have yielded fruitful results. Both the Xijiang River valley, the Hanjiang River valley, the Xingmei area in the east of Guangdong Province, and the Zhanjiang area in the west of Guangdong Province have been unearthed A lot of bronze. According to rough statistics, the total number of bronzes unearthed has been exceeded