The appearance of Qu Yuan's works marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from elegant harmony to romantic originality. Chu Ci, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is one of the sources of China's romantic literature. The national style in the most famous chapters "Li Sao" and "The Book of Songs" is also called "Sao", which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.
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As a great patriot and patriotic poet, Qu Yuan was admired by later generations. His deep and persistent patriotic enthusiasm, his spirit of persisting in ideals, unyielding death, pursuing truth and boldly criticizing reality in political struggle set an example for later writers. There are many poems in Lisao that show Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit.
After the failure of political struggle in the early Han Dynasty, Jia Yi was demoted to Changsha. When he passed the Miluo River, he felt that he had a similar experience with Qu Yuan and wrote a very painful "Mourning Qu Fuyuan". On the one hand, I mourn Qu Yuan and introduce Qu Yuan as my confidant. On the one hand, he studied Qu Yuan's creative spirit and boldly exposed and attacked the dark social reality.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Qu Yuan