新中国建立以来,在先秦时期的故楚之地,今河南、湖北、湖南等省出土了大量的竹简,如新蔡葛陵、信阳长台关、荆门郭店、江陵九店、常德夕阳坡、长沙五里牌、慈利石板村等,共计三十多个批次,文字达十万以上。这批竹简记载了战国时期楚地的古籍、文书、术数等内容,在一定程度上弥补了先秦时期缺乏信史的状况,是研究楚国历史、文化、风俗、政治的重 Since the founding of New China, a large number of bamboo slips have been unearthed in Henan, Hubei and Hunan Provinces during the pre-Qin period, such as Xin Cai Ge Ling, Xinyang Changtaiguan, Jingmen Guodian, Jiangling Jiudian, Changde Sunset Hill , Changsha Wuli card, Cili stone village, a total of more than thirty batches, the text of more than one hundred thousand. These bamboo slips contain a record of the ancient books, instruments, operations and so on in the Warring States Period, to a certain extent, to make up for the lack of information and history in the pre-Qin period and to study the history, culture, customs and politics of Chu