Li Sao is a literary work created by Qu Yuan, a poet in the Warring States Period. Li Sao was interpreted by Wang Yi in the Eastern Han Dynasty as: "Leave, don't leave; Sao, hey. "
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As for the background of Li Sao, one of the focuses of debate is whether Qu Yuan was created when he was alienated or exiled by Chu Huaiwang. According to Records of Historical Records and Biographies of Qu Yuan, the young and promising Qu Yuan was slandered by his colleague Shangguan Doctor (Shanxi Merchants), and Chu Huaiwang alienated him.
He wrote Li Sao with sadness and meditation. The preface to Historical Records Taishi Gong said: "Qu Yuan was demoted and wrote Li Sao." It is also said in Baoren An Shu: "Qu Yuan was exiled, but he was endowed with Li Sao." Sima Qian's account of the same incident is obviously contradictory.
Due to the lack of reliable historical materials, finding evidence from the poem itself is a good way to solve this problem. There is such a line in the poem: "If we are different, I will die far away." Self-neglect refers to a positive attitude, not being released.
In addition, some people suspect that it was written after Qu Yuan's exile, because there is a sentence in the poem "Qu Yuan and Zheng Xi in southern Hunan", which is not credible. Because the second half of Li Sao is a journey in the writer's imagination, "Ji Yuan and Zheng Xi in southern Hunan" is not true.
In a word, the statements in Historical Records and Biographies of Qu Yuan are credible. However, Records of the Historian, Biography of Taishigong and Letter to Ren An are both lyrical words, which may be that they are not faithful to historical facts when writing.