Li Sao is Qu Yuan's masterpiece. Qu Yuan's illness, Chu Huaiwang's refusal to listen, flattery to cover up the Ming Dynasty, and the intolerable harm of evil songs to the public led him to write Li Sao. Li Sao is a magnificent political lyric poem, which has a lofty position in the history of China literature. Written when Qu Yuan was exiled to the south of the Yangtze River, it is a poet's work full of patriotic passion.
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The practical significance of Li Sao;
The poet described his life experience, moral character and ideal, expressed the anguish and contradiction that he was slandered to death, rebuked the fatuity of the king of Chu, the madness of the villain group and the ineffective governance of Japan, and showed the poet's fighting spirit of adhering to the ideal of "beautiful politics", attacking the dark reality, not colluding with evil forces and his patriotic enthusiasm to death.