中国历史上春秋战国时代的诸侯大国——楚,最早兴起于古汉水流域,在春秋中晚期已经从江汉地区扩张至湘江流域及长江中下游地区,成为春秋五霸之一,及战国时代,旋即成为战国七雄之中的强势大国,已基本统一了中国南方的江淮、江汉地区,辖地囊括现在的湖北、湖南、安徽、江西、江苏、浙江的全部,北及陕西、河南、山东一部,南及广东、广 In the history of China in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period vassal powers - Chu, the earliest rise in the ancient Han watershed, in the late Spring and Autumn Jianghan region has expanded to the Xiangjiang River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, becoming one of the five hegemonism and the Warring States Period, Has become the strong power among the seven warlords, has basically unified the JAC and Jianghan areas in southern China, and now covers all of Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the north, Shaanxi, Henan and Shandong in the north , South and Guangdong, Canton