随州是一个历史悠久的地方。
随州西周封国为随，战国末属楚，始置随县。[{'character': '随', 'pinyin': 'suei2', 'highest pitch': 9.0, 'lowest pitch': 7.22, 'duration': 0.33, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '州', 'pinyin': 'zhou1', 'highest pitch': 10.74, 'lowest pitch': 8.45, 'duration': 0.23, 'prosody hierarchy': '#1'}, {'character': '西', 'pinyin': 'xi1', 'highest pitch': 10.49, 'lowest pitch': 9.44, 'duration': 0.21, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '周', 'pinyin': 'zhou1', 'highest pitch': 10.74, 'lowest pitch': 9.44, 'duration': 0.24, 'prosody hierarchy': '#2'}, {'character': '封', 'pinyin': 'feng1', 'highest pitch': 11.34, 'lowest pitch': 10.4, 'duration': 0.26, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '国', 'pinyin': 'guo2', 'highest pitch': 10.43, 'lowest pitch': 8.11, 'duration': 0.15, 'prosody hierarchy': '#1'}, {'character': '为', 'pinyin': 'uei2', 'highest pitch': 9.05, 'lowest pitch': 6.38, 'duration': 0.18, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '随', 'pinyin': 'suei2', 'highest pitch': 9.0, 'lowest pitch': 4.95, 'duration': 0.37, 'prosody hierarchy': '#3'}, {'pinyin': 'sp1', 'highest pitch': 0.0, 'lowest pitch': 0.0, 'duration': 0.21}, {'character': '战', 'pinyin': 'zhan4', 'highest pitch': 11.43, 'lowest pitch': 8.86, 'duration': 0.27, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '国', 'pinyin': 'guo2', 'highest pitch': 10.43, 'lowest pitch': 7.05, 'duration': 0.14, 'prosody hierarchy': '#1'}, {'character': '末', 'pinyin': 'mo4', 'highest pitch': 10.21, 'lowest pitch': 8.28, 'duration': 0.22, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '属', 'pinyin': 'shu2', 'highest pitch': 10.47, 'lowest pitch': 8.08, 'duration': 0.24, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '楚', 'pinyin': 'chu3', 'highest pitch': 5.55, 'lowest pitch': 3.65, 'duration': 0.38, 'prosody hierarchy': '#3'}, {'pinyin': 'sp1', 'highest pitch': 0.0, 'lowest pitch': 0.0, 'duration': 0.18}, {'character': '始', 'pinyin': 'shiii3', 'highest pitch': 6.38, 'lowest pitch': 4.96, 'duration': 0.28, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '置', 'pinyin': 'zhiii4', 'highest pitch': 9.38, 'lowest pitch': 7.7, 'duration': 0.17, 'prosody hierarchy': '#1'}, {'character': '随', 'pinyin': 'suei2', 'highest pitch': 9.0, 'lowest pitch': 4.9, 'duration': 0.24, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '县', 'pinyin': 'xian4', 'highest pitch': 10.36, 'lowest pitch': 6.5, 'duration': 0.28, 'prosody hierarchy': '#4'}]