Nine songs and eleven articles, namely Emperor Taiyi, Jun in the Cloud, Lady Xiang, Shao Siming, Hebo, National Mourning and Ritual Soul.
"Nine Songs" is music dedicated to the gods by Chu State, which was processed and polished by Qu Yuan. There are many images of gods in the poem, most of which are love songs. In the expression of characters' feelings and the description of environmental atmosphere, it is full of rich flavor of life. However, it is the expression of generations or gods, rather than the author's self-lyric, which shows more traces of the literary tradition of southern Chu.
Nine Songs is different from Qu Yuan's other works, but it is fresh, sad and deep. Obviously, due to the use of folk materials and the integration of folk songs, this style is somewhat unique compared with his other works.
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Nine Songs is a sacrificial song for the purpose of entertaining the gods. On the surface, its artistic image is a supernatural god, but in essence it deifies people in reality. In the description of characters' feelings and environmental atmosphere, it is vivid and beautiful, solemn and elegant, and full of strong life breath.
Qu Yuan wrote eleven articles according to the different gods he sacrificed? Among them, the article "National Mourning" is dedicated to paying homage to the heroes who died in the war. However, some scholars now think that Nine of Nine Songs is illusory, but there are actually ten poems, because the Soul of the Book of Rites has only three sentences, so it should not be listed as a national mourning.
There are five theories in Ma Chengyu's "Nine Songs", namely, the theory of religious songs and dances, the theory of Qu Yuan's sacrifice, and the theory of keeping palace notes and poems in Quanzhou, Han and Gan.
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 mood when he exiled Nan Chu and Yuan Zhen in his later years, being loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and worrying about the country and the people.
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