一 楚文化是中国古代楚人所创造的一种有其自身特色的文化体系。这里所说的文化，是按照人类学家克鲁勃（Ａ．Ｌ．Ｋｒｏｅｂｅｒ）和克拉克洪（Ｃ．Ｋｌｕｃｋｈｏｈｎ）在１９５２年所下定义而言，即为：“包括各种外显的或内隐的行为模式，借助于符号的使用而学会它或传授之 A Chu culture is a kind of cultural system created by ancient Chu people in China with its own characteristics. The culture referred to here is based on the definitions of anthropologists A.L. Kroeber and C.Kluckhohn in 1952 as follows: "Including a variety of explicit or internal Hidden patterns of behavior, learned by means of the use of symbols or imparted