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"The book of Rites"(Li Ji,礼记),one of the confucian classics, is divided into "The book of Rites edited by senior Dai"(Da Dai Li Ji,大戴礼记)and"The book of Rites edited by junior Dai(Xiao Dai Li Ji,小戴礼记).Because of the different sources, the long textual content, there still be many problems in studying these two books.The excavated bamboo slips of Chu State include the bamboo slips of Guodian(郭店楚简),the bamboo slips of Chu collected in Shanghai Museum(上海博物馆藏戰国楚竹书),the bamboo slips of Warring States collected in Tsinghua University(清华大学藏戰国竹简),the bamboo slips of Baoshan(包山楚简),the bamboo slips of discovered from chu tomb at Geling of Xincai(新蔡葛陵楚简)and so on, which were excavated from the original Chu State in the latter half of the20th century. In the first three bamboo slips of Chu State, there are many related content of Li Ji.We study the excavated bamboo slips of Chu State and handed-down Li Ji from three aspects:using the relevant documents in both editions to confirm pre-Qin ritual law and solve some problems in ancient literatures, using the etiquette culture to interpretate the difficult sentence in the excavated bamboo slips of Chu State.