竹简是古人书写文件、著作等的竹片。先秦时期还没有纸,人们将文字书写在一根根小竹片上,并用丝线编联起来,当作传播信息的载体。东周时期,楚人把成竹劈成条,去其节,杀其青,加以刮削、整治,制成待用的简。这种尚未写上文字的竹简叫做“无字简”或“空白简”。如果上面写有文字则叫做“有字简”。楚简多出自于墓中。出土时,有的简保存较好,有的简则残损严重,甚至仅存残片。楚墓中多存积水,因此原简的编联顺序也常受到扰动。有的墓曾被盗,受损情况就更为严重。楚简上的文字一般墨书在篾黄面(少数简两面书写)。整简字迹多清晰可辨。每简字数不等,少则数字,多则几十字。书写时,有的留有天头、地脚,有的则不留。文字风格不同的简多半是由数人所写。简文中往往有某种特定的标识符号,如“=”(表 Bamboo is the ancients to write documents, books and other bamboo. There was no paper in the pre-Qin period, and people wrote the text on a piece of root bamboo and compiled it together with silk thread as the carrier of information dissemination. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Chu people split into pieces, to its section, to kill its youth, to shave, remediation, made of Jane to be used. This kind of bamboo slips, which have not been written yet, are called “no word” or “blank”. If there is written on the text is called Chu Jane more from the tomb. When unearthed, some Jane kept better, and some Jane badly damaged, and even the remaining fragments. Chu tomb in the accumulation of water, so the original Jane’s Bianlian often disturbed. Some tomb has been stolen, the damage is even more serious. Chu Chu general words on the book in the yellow ink (a few simple two sides writing). More simple and clear Each simple words vary, ranging from numbers, as many as dozens of words. When writing, some leave the sky, feet, while others do not stay. Different styles of writing more than half are written by several people. Simple text often have a specific identifier, such as “= ” (Table