Long poems express the poet's political embrace and misfortune. He is full of inner beauty, attaches importance to cultivating ability, goes straight on the right path, leads an honest and clean life, and is determined to help the King of Chu realize his lofty ideal-Yao Shunyu and Tang's "beautiful politics". However, at that time, Chu's ruling and opposition parties were in a state of disintegration. "Everyone is greedy and eager for success", "Only party member steals pleasure, and the road is quiet and dangerous"; The supreme ruler does not seek progress or "abandon filth".
Under extremely difficult circumstances, Qu Yuan was appointed as a leftist and participated in the management of the country's internal affairs and diplomacy. He insisted on reforming domestic politics, refused Qin to go abroad and tried to turn the tide. I didn't expect it, but I believed it, but I was loyal and slandered. Qu Yuan's reform measures were obstructed and destroyed by the old aristocratic "partisans" headed by Ling. These people "forgive themselves for being in Qiang and being jealous of each other's interests", and "many women are jealous of their beauty, so they say they are addicted to sex", and they wantonly spread rumors and slander.
What is even more exasperating is that Chu Huaiwang, who is in power, is "treacherous and angry". In this sharp contradiction and conflict, Qu Yuan was finally rejected and attacked because of his weak position, and his great reform plan and good wish to make the people of Chu rich and strong came to nothing.
After being persecuted, Qu Yuan did not give up his ideal, but became more obsessed with "seeking up and down". He faced the future with depression and hesitation in adversity, galloped with imagination and association, carried the sacred mountain, knocked on the emperor's pavilion, begged his wife and explored the heavens. However, some goddesses in the sky accused him of being gold, scolded him and advised him to be wise and protect himself; Some people ignore it behind closed doors. His enthusiasm, like reality, has been ignored again and again.
So, he listened to the advice of Lingqi and the five sages and traveled abroad with great sadness. In a mythical color, the lyric hero drives a dragon, rides a Yao car, crosses the Tianhe River, walks quicksand, helps Chishui and enjoys the spirit, so that he can soar and fly. However, just as he ascended to heaven and died, he "suddenly came to his hometown", and the feeling of homesickness made him reluctant to part. Finally, he recited painfully: "I want to live in Peng Xian's house, because it is not good enough for politics." Determined to die for his ideal. Through the profound contradiction between ideal and reality, this long poem in Sao style expresses the poet's passionate pursuit of lofty ideals and his great sentiment of not colluding with evil forces, and expresses an extremely extensive and profound sense of hardship.