Qu Yuan's last poem before he threw himself into the river was

Although Qu Yuan was loyal to Chu Huaiwang, he was repeatedly rejected. After the death of King Huai, Xiang Wang was exiled because he listened to slanderers. After that, he returned to Lingyang for nine years, and there was no hope of returning to Du Ying. I heard that the situation in Chu was getting worse. Every news makes him fidgety. He remembered that Wang Huai died in Qin because he refused to cede Guizhou. He decided to visit this place and live in Xupu, Qianzhong County.

The flame of patriotism burned in his heart, but he could do nothing. He can only walk around the mountain and the lake every day. Full of sadness and resentment, he wrote poems. He is getting older and older, but the hope of reviving Chu has not been extinguished for a day.

In the twenty-first year of King Xiang of Qin, the generals of Qin attacked Chu in vain, occupied the capital Ying, and the ancestral halls and tombs of Chu were completely destroyed. Chu is dying. He decided to go back to Du Ying and die where he was born. He walked in a daze for a few days, without combing his hair or washing his face, until he reached the Miluo River. He saw his white hair in the clear river, and his heart churned like waves.

Qu Yuan's political thoughts were shattered and he was desperate for the future. Although he wants to serve his country, he can't go back to heaven. He had to make up his mind to commit suicide in Miluo River on May 5th.

Qu Yuan (about 340 BC or 339-278 BC) was a poet and politician of Chu State during the Warring States Period in China. Born in Chu Danyang (now Yichang, Hubei). Mi surname, Qu family, human, the word is native; Since the cloud name is regular, the spirit word is even. In his early years, he was trusted by Chu Huaiwang as Zuotu, and was also a doctor of San Lv, in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs.

Advocate "American politics", advocate improving talents and abilities internally, improve statutes, and unite external forces to resist Qin. Slashed by nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley. After General Qin attacked Ying, the capital of Chu State (now Jiangling, Hubei Province), Qu Yuan drowned in the Miluo River and died heroically.

Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative author of Chu Ci, which pioneered the tradition of "vanilla beauty", and is known as "the ancestor of China's poetry" and "the ancestor of Ci". The appearance of Qu Yuan marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality.

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