Qu Yuan's poem "Thinking of Beauty" is one of the "Nine Chapters".
Nine Chapters: Thinking of Beauty is a poem written by Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State during the Warring States Period, and is one of the "Nine Chapters". This poem is about admiring the sages, lamenting the current times, admonishing the king, hoping that the king will not repeat the mistakes of history and work hard to revitalize the Chu country. It expresses the author's determination to stick to moral integrity and not follow the customs.
The basic stance and starting point is to miss and love the king, and missing and loving the king also have the meaning of resenting and waiting for the king. The whole poem uses vanilla beauty as the main image, transcends the limitations of time and space, and boldly organically integrates the earth and heaven, the world and fairyland, history and reality, etc., intertwining real, historical and mythical figures, which is called A masterpiece of romantic literature.
Nine Chapters: The title of "Chu Ci" is a collection of nine prose poems written by Qu Yuan. Beauty: This is a metaphor, referring to King Huai of Chu. One theory refers to King Qingxiang of Chu. 擥 (lǎn) tears: Wipe away tears. 楥, the same as "哥", to collect. 似(zhù)癙(chì): to stand and stare for a long time. 似, same as "似", meaning to stand for a long time. Yi, stare straight at him.
Creative background
This poem was probably written by Qu Yuan during his exile in the south of the Yangtze River. The time of its creation has not yet been determined. There are two main theories. One theory is that it was created when Qu Yuan was exiled to northern Han Dynasty during the period of King Huai of Chu. For example, Wang Yi's "Chu Ci Zhangju" explains that Mei is King Huai of Chu, and many old annotations follow.
Lin Yunming's "Ci Deng of Chu" said: "This is based on the literary text. For example, "Xishong" was written after King Huai saw it and offended him, but he did not let it go. The second "Thinking of Beauty" " "Taosi", after Jin Yan was offended, King Huai put it aside. He called the capital "Nanxing" and called the courtiers "southerns", so it was undoubtedly placed in the north of Han Dynasty.
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