Qu Yuan (poet and politician of Chu State at the end of the Warring States Period)?
Qu Yuan (about 340 BC or 339 ~ 278 BC), a poet and politician of Chu State in the Warring States Period, was born in Danyang, Yichang City, Hubei Province. His surname was Mi, Qu, Ming Ping and Yuan Zi. And because the name of the cloud is regular, the spirit word is general, during the Warring States period. Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong's son Qu Xian's descendants. When I was a teenager, I was well educated, knowledgeable and ambitious. In his early years, he was trusted by Chu Huaiwang as Zuotu, and was also a doctor of San Lv, in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. He advocated "American politics", promoting and appointing talents internally, perfecting statutes and uniting external forces to resist Qin. Slashed by nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley. After General Qin attacked Ying, the capital of Chu State (now Jiangling, Hubei Province), Qu Yuan drowned in the Miluo River and died heroically.
Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative author of Chu Ci, which pioneered the tradition of "vanilla beauty", and is known as "the ancestor of China's poetry" and "the ancestor of Ci". The appearance of Qu Yuan marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality. Qu Yuan's major works include Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters and Tian Wen. Chu Ci, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is the source of China's romantic literature, and it is also called "coquettish" with The Book of Songs, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.
1953, on the occasion of the 2230th anniversary of Qu Yuan's death, the World Peace Council passed a resolution to identify Qu Yuan as one of the four cultural celebrities in the world.
Sima Qian (historian and essayist of the Western Han Dynasty)?
Sima Qian (former145-no textual research) was born in xia yang (now south of Hancheng, Shaanxi). Historians and essayists in the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Tan's son, Ren Taishiling, was imprisoned for defending Li Ling's defeat and surrender, and later served as the secretariat. He worked hard to complete his own historical records, and was called Shi Qian, Tai Shigong and the father of history by later Buddha.
Sima Qian studied under Kong Anguo and Dong Zhongshu in his early years, roaming around, learning about customs and collecting rumors. As a first-time doctor, he served in the southwest. In the third year of Yuanfeng (108), he was appointed as the Taishiling, inherited his father's business and wrote history. He created China's first biography and general history book (formerly known as Taishi Gongshu) with his historical knowledge of "studying the relationship between man and nature, understanding the changes of ancient and modern times, and making a family statement". It is recognized as a model of China's history books, which records more than 3,000 years' history from the legendary period of the Yellow Emperor to the first year of the founding of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It is the first of the "twenty-five histories" and is praised by Lu Xun as "a historian's swan song, and Li Sao has no rhyme".