There are lots of recordings in Chu bamboo about praying to dead men: ancestors and dead ones by accidents. Those information are important to Chu ancestral apotheosis. Ancestors mean three premier Chu ancestors, every king of Chu and earlier five generations ancestors. Dead ones by accidents mean dying young guys, wronged condemned ghosts, men who dead by battles, men who dead by violence, men were drowned, men who dead without offspring and ghosts who no one offer sacrifices too. In addition, There are four characteristics of Chu ancestral apotheosis: building lots of ancestral shrines, having great esteem for ghosts who cause troubles to people or dead for country, praying to ancestors.