The chaotic dynamic behaviors of a reduction of perturbed Korteweg-de Vries （KdV） equation in form of a parametric excitation are studied. Chaotic behaviors from homoclinic crossings are analyzed with an improved Melnikov method and are compared for the systems with a periodically external excitation, with a linear periodically parametric excitation, or with a nonlinear periodically excitation. The critical curves separating chaotic regions and non-chaotic regions of the above systems are different from each other. Especially, a dead frequency is presented for the system with a nonlinear periodically parametric excitation. The chaos excited at the frequency does not occur no matter how large the excitation amplitude is. A time integration scheme is used to find the numerical solutions of these systems. Numerical results agree with the analytical ones.
