What are the important artistic features of Chu Ci?

Chuci is a new poetic style, which originated in the Chu area of the southern Yangtze River valley in the middle and late Warring States period. Chu poets absorbed the essence of southern folk songs and integrated ancient myths and legends. It broke the rigid format of The Book of Songs, which was a great liberation for the development of China's ancient poetry and also opened the second spring of China's epic. Songs of the South uses a sentence pattern of three to eight words, and its length and capacity can be expanded as needed.

Chu Ci is characterized by its grand structure, rich imagination and flexible sentence patterns. Qu Yuan and Song Yu are the representative writers, and their masterpieces include Li Sao, Jiu Ge and Jiu Zhang.

First of all, from the artistic characteristics of Chu Ci, it is closely related to the primitive myths of Chu and religious activities related to witchcraft and prayer. From Qu Yuan's works "Nine Songs", "Evocation of Soul" and "Tian Wen", we can see that this aspect has a distinct brand.

Secondly, the emergence of Chu Ci is also closely related to the music and folk songs of Chu. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the music and folk songs of Chu State were called "Nanyin" or "Nanfeng".

From the works of Chu Ci, we can see that its text system is relatively mature, especially compared with the works of the book of songs, a musical song of northern soil, it shows its grandeur and complexity. In addition, compared with the works of The Book of Songs, the new poetry of Chu has different artistic characteristics from the above, and the most obvious difference is the difference in sentence pattern and intonation. The works of The Book of Songs are mainly four words, with little length and emphasis.