The jurisdiction is roughly the current Hunan, all of Hubei, Chongqing, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, and parts of Jiangxi.
The State of Chu, also known as Jing and Jingchu, was a vassal state in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in Chinese history. The ancestral family name of Chu State was Mi, Xiong. The Chu tribe, which first arose in ancient Jingzhou, was destroyed by the Qin State.
During the period of King Xuan of Chu and King Wei of Chu, the territory started from Daba Mountain, Wushan Mountain, and Wuling Mountain in the west, to the sea in the east, from Nanling in the south, to central Henan, Anhui, northern Jiangsu, southeastern Shaanxi, and Shandong in the north. The southwest is vast. The Chu State has now entered its most prosperous period.
The Chu State was a vassal state located in the Yangtze River Basin during the pre-Qin period. The king was named Mi and Xiong. During the period of King Cheng of Zhou Dynasty, he made Xiong Yi, the leader of the Chu people, a viscount and established the Chu Kingdom.
Extended information:
1. Political system:
1. Central Government:
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu has set up Ling Yin officials. Ling Yin "held the reins of a country." "In the upper position, I can lead all the people." From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, Ling Yin was in charge of domestic affairs and foreign wars, and had overall power. Its power endures.
During the Warring States Period, the governance of the princes of Chu State gradually declined, while the governance of the aristocratic families with the three major families of Zhao, Qu and Jing as the main body developed. During the Warring States Period, the Chu State formed a ruling group with the three major clans as Zhao, Qu and Jing as its backbone.
Pre-Qin literature refers to the official who manages hundreds of workers as Sikong, while in Zhou Dynasty inscriptions, it is called "Si Gong" or "Si Gong". Since the Spring and Autumn Period, most of the countries in the Central Plains have been called Gongzheng, while the Chu State has been called Gongyin (or Dagongyin). During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Chu State's official handicraft industry was very developed. It was run by the central dynasty, and Gong Yin managed all workers.
2. Local:
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Chu State established the organizational form of county-level political power. Chu County was the earliest county-level administrative region. The State of Chu set up counties to govern counties. The county governors were dispatched by the king of Chu and were not hereditary. This meant the beginning of the bureaucracy in ancient China. During the Warring States Period, the counties of Chu State had no administrative functions, and there was no local government organization in which counties governed counties.
However, the two forms of organization, county and county, set a precedent for the emergence of local political organization forms under the jurisdiction of counties and counties in the Qin Dynasty. There are grassroots organizations such as townships, prefectures, communes, and li under the counties. There are two important grassroots organizations in the state and district.
2. Literature:
Chu Ci, also known as "Chu Ci", is a style of poetry created by Qu Yuan, a great poet in the Warring States Period. The work uses the literary style and dialect rhyme of the Chu region (today's Lianghu area) to describe the mountains, rivers, people, and historical customs of the Chu region, and has strong local characteristics.
During the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled Qu Yuan's works and the works of Song Yu and others who "inherited Qu Fu" into a collection called "Chu Ci". It has become a collection of poems that has had a profound impact on Chinese literature after the "Book of Songs". It is also the first collection of romantic poetry in the history of Chinese Han literature.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chu State