Ancient Yingzhou (Chaoyang today) in Dalinghe River basin was an important transport hub to connect the Central Plains with the Northeast, and Northeast Asia with Central Asia. Either agricultural civ-ilization in the Central Plains, or civilization of the Syr Darya River in Central Asia, or grassland civilization were well integrated and developed with Chaoyang as a center. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, in particular, Yingzhou, owing to its geographical advantages and multi-ethnic development, had been an important politi-cal, economic, trade and cultural center of West Liaoning as well as Northeast China. Since the 1950s, a large number of tombs of the Sui and Tang dynasties have been discovered in the Chaoyang area, more than 205, to be exact, by 2010. Thousands of burial objects unearthed from these tombs imprint brilliant and splendid civilization in the history. Yingzhou in the Sui and Tang dynasties played an important role in the cultural dissemination, social progress, national integration and economic development in the northeast China as well as in the Northeast Asia region. The review of these findings will help us better understand the status and the influence of Yingzhou in the Sui and Tang dynasties.% 位于大凌河畔的古营州（朝阳），自古以来就是连接中原与东北，东北亚与中亚地区的重要交通枢纽。无论是中原的农业文明、还是中亚地区的锡尔河流域文明，以及草原文明都曾经以朝阳为中心而得到了充分的融合与发展。尤其在隋唐时期，营州由于地理优势的明显与多民族的开发，使其一度成为辽西地区乃至中国东北最重要的政治、经济、贸易、文化的中心。由于三燕政权和北魏政权的早期开发和积累，加之其地理位置的重要性，营州必然成为隋唐帝国经略东北的边疆重镇。自从20世纪50年代以来，在今天的朝阳地区就陆续发现了大量隋唐时期的墓葬，截止到2010年为止这一地区隋唐墓葬发现的数量多达205座。我们从这些墓葬中出土的琳琅满目数以千计的各类随葬品中，透视出曾经辉煌和灿烂的文明印记。隋唐时期的营州对中国东北乃至东北亚地区文化的传播、社会的进步、民族的融合，以及经济的发展都起到了十分重要的作用。梳理和综述这些研究成果，便于我们深刻地理解和把握隋唐时期营州究竟处在怎样的历史地位，以及其对周边地区影响的价值所在。
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