大漆是我国的特产。我们的先民使用大漆有着悠久的历史,用大漆髹饰过的器物,早在新石器时代的河姆渡文化遗址中就有发现,在河南罗山的商代墓中曾出土过一只髹漆木碗,西周时的漆器也不少见,战国秦、汉时期更是达到了使用大漆的辉煌时代。在距今二千多年前的楚国的广大地域内,漆器的使用已相当普遍,这已被我们的考古工作者发掘的数量众多的楚墓中随葬的大量漆器所证实。例如河南信阳长台关两座楚墓出土各类漆木器700余件,湖北随县曾侯乙墓和江陵天星观一 Lacquer is our specialty. Our ancestors used lacquer for a long time. The objects decorated with lacquered lacquer have been found in Neolithic Hemudu cultural relics. In Shang dynasty tombs of Luoshan in Henan Province, there were unearthed a Lacquer wooden bowl, the lacquerware of the Western Zhou Dynasty is not uncommon, the Warring States Qin, Han Dynasty is to achieve the brilliant use of lacquer times. The use of lacquers has become quite widespread throughout the vast territory of Chu more than two thousand years ago, as evidenced by the large number of lacquer ware buried in the large number of tombs unearthed by our archaeologists. For example, there are more than 700 lacquer wares excavated from two Chu tombs in Changtai Pass, Xinyang, Henan Province.