During the period of Chu Huaiwang and King Xiang of Chu where Qu Yuan lived, after Shang Yang's political reform, the State of Qin came from behind among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, and its expansion momentum was aggressive, and Chu became one of its main targets for attacking the city. However, Chu Huaiwang gave up the correct policy of uniting the vertical and horizontal, and repeatedly trusted Qin's empty promises, making friends with Qin. When Qin's promise finally became a painting cake, Qin Chu's friendship was inevitable. Since the 16th year of Chu Huaiwang (313 BC), there have been many wars between Chu and Qin, all of which were defeated by Qin. According to Records of the Historian Chu Family, in the seventeenth year of Chu Huaiwang (312 BC), Chu and Qin fought in Danyang (in the area west of Xixia, Henan Province), and the Chu army was defeated. The general Qu Yi was captured, and the military was beheaded to 8,, and Hanzhong County was owned by Qin. Chu attacked Qin with the strength of the whole country and was defeated by Lantian again.
in the 28th year of Chu Huaiwang (31 BC), Qin, Qi, Han and Wei jointly attacked Chu, killing the Tang Dynasty and taking the heavy hills (now Biyang North, Henan Province). The following year, the Chu army was defeated by Qin again, and General Jing was killed, with 2, dead. In the following year, Qin captured eight cities of Chu, and Chu Huaiwang was tricked into forming an alliance with Qin, and was imprisoned. His son Xiang Wang acceded to the throne. In 298 BC (the first year of King Xiang's reign), Qin attacked Chu again, defeated the Chu army, beheaded 5, people, and captured and analyzed (now Xixia, Henan) and other 15 cities. Before Qu Yuan's death, according to the above statistics, more than 15, soldiers in Chu died violently in a bloody battle with Qin Jun. Later generations pointed out that the work of "Mourning for the Country" was made because of "being pregnant and caring for the world, being greedy and abandoning morality, breaking promises and forgetting relatives, and even being angry with God and complaining about the death of the country, which made the strong men lie dead and paste wild, in order to speed up the enemy's intention. The original cover is deeply sad and extremely painful. " In ancient times, people who died before they were adults (less than 2 years old) were called wounds, and they were also used to refer to ghosts without owners who had not completed the funeral. According to ancient funerals, those who died without courage on the battlefield could not be gathered in coffins as usual and buried in tombs, and they were also ghosts without owners called "wounds". In the Qin Chu War, the Chu soldiers who died in the battlefield were defeated, so they could only die in the wilderness, and no one organized funerals and sacrifices for those who died for their country. It is against this background that Qu Yuan in exile created this immortal masterpiece.