During the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu, created a new poetry genre-Chu Ci-in Chu language on the basis of southern folk songs. Qu Yuan's lyric poem Li Sao has a romantic style and is a masterpiece of Chu Ci, so Chu Ci is also called Li Sao Style.
Nine Songs is the most refined, beautiful and charming poem in Qu Fu. It represents the highest achievement of Qu Yuan's artistic creation. Nine Songs is based on the merits and heroic achievements of Chu ancestors. Poetry takes mountains and rivers, gods and natural scenery as its theme; Taking fairy tales and historical legends as poems, it vividly expresses the poet's sad feelings of loyalty to the monarch, patriotism and concern for the country and the people during his exile in Southern Chu, Yuan and Xiang in his later years, as well as his inner purposes of "taking pleasure in ambition", "talking about comfort with me, caring for men and women with affection" and "chanting family ties and taking the weather vane".
Chapter 9: Title of Chu Ci. Including nine works. According to Wang Yi's Songs of the South, the order is: chanting, shejiang, mourning, thinking, thinking, past events, praising oranges, and sadness returning to emptiness.
Evocation is a unique work in Songs of the South, which is written by imitating the folk custom of evocation and contains the author's thoughts and feelings. The author is controversial, saying that Song Yu "mourned the soul of Qu Yuan", so he wrote it. However, many people advocate doing it for Qu Yuan. "Externally evil Chen Sifang, internally beautiful Chu" calls for the soul of the King of Chu to return to Chu. The sad and harmonious words have a great influence on the tradition of hurting spring in later generations.
Tian Wen is another long poem written by Qu Yuan, the greatest romantic poet in China, after Li Sao, and it is also one of his representative works. It is included in Chu Ci edited by Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty. The whole poem ***373 sentences, accounting for 1560 words; Language is mainly composed of four words, including three words, five words, six words, seven words and occasionally eight words. This is a masterpiece in the history of China literature.