Excerpts from the original text of Li Sao;
Take a long breath to hide your tears and mourn the hardships of people's lives. Although I am good at trimming my hair, I am embarrassed by it and I am eager to change it. This is both a pity for Yu and a petition for it. For the ideal cherished in my heart, I will not regret it a thousand times. The resentment of practice is mighty and will never be seen by the people. Many women are jealous of Yu's beauty. They say Yu is good at prostitution. It is wise to stick to the rules, but correct your mistakes according to the rules.
Chanting rope ink chasing songs, competing with Zhou Rong. I am so depressed and poor at this time. I'd rather die in exile, but I can't bear it. Raptors are not crowded because of their previous lives. How can I be happy and how can I make my husband live a stable life? Curse your heart, suppress your ambitions, but be particularly tolerant and angry. Be innocent, die straight, and be thicker than the former sanctuary.
Translation of excerpts from Li Sao;
I wiped my tears and sighed, how difficult the road of poor life is. Although I love cleanliness and discipline myself, I am humiliated in the morning and lose my job at night. They attacked me for wearing wormwood and accused me of collecting Isatis indigotica. This is what I pursue in my heart, and I won't regret it even if I die many times. Blame the king of Chu for being so confused. He never observes the feelings of others.
Those women are jealous of my charm and slander me for being coquettish and lewd. Mediocre people are good at opportunism, breaking rules and changing policies. Pursuing evil songs violates the standard of right and wrong and takes pleasure as the law. I'm depressed and upset. It's hard to be alone now. I'd rather die at once, my soul is scattered and I'll never do it.
Eagles and those finches are not a group, which has been the case since ancient times. How to match the square and the circle, and how to live in peace with different ambitions? I would rather compromise my mind and suppress my feelings, and I would rather bear all the reprimands and curses. Keeping innocent and dying on the right path is praised by ancient sages!
Appreciation of works and brief introduction of the author:
Appreciate:
Song Qi, a famous historian and poet in Song Dynasty, said: "Li Sao was the ancestor of Ci Fu and was written by later generations. You can't be polite, you can't exceed the moment. " In other words, Li Sao not only opened up a broad literary field, but also was a model that China could never reach.
Li Sao was written in Chu Huaiwang in 245, 305 and 304 years before Qu Yuan was released to the Northern Han Dynasty. The land in the north of Han Dynasty is north of a section where Hanshui River bends eastward and flows eastward. Today, Tianmen, Yingcheng, Jingshan and Yunmeng County are the lands in the north of Han Dynasty.
About the author:
Qu Yuan (about 340 BC-278 BC) was a great patriotic poet in ancient China. Han nationality, Chu Danyang (now Zigui, Hubei), with a flat name and an original word. During the Warring States Period, Chu was born into a noble family, worked as a doctor and was a disciple in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. He advocated using talents internally, cultivating statutes, and uniting external forces against Qin. Later, he was exiled to the Yuan and Xiang river basins because he was excluded by the nobles.