2. During the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State, created a new poetic genre-Chu Ci. Qu Yuan's lyric poem Li Sao has a romantic style and is a masterpiece of Chu Ci, so Chu Ci is also called "Sao Style".
Another book: Songs of the South (China's first romantic poetry collection)
Chu Ci is the first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature, which is said to be a new poetic style created by Qu Yuan. The name of "Songs of the South" existed in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty and was compiled by Liu Xiangnai. Wang Yi wrote chapters and sentences in the Eastern Han Dynasty.