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Chu Ci is the first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature, which is said to be a new poetic style created by Qu Yuan. The name of "Songs of the South" existed in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty and was compiled by Liu Xiangnai. Wang Yi wrote chapters and sentences in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Qu Yuan and Song Yu in the Warring States Period, Huai Nan Zi Shan, Dong Fangshuo, Wang Bao and Liu Xiang in the Han Dynasty.
Later, Wang Yi added his Jiu Si to Article 17. The book is mainly based on Qu Yuan's works, and the rest are also in the form of Qu Fu. Because it uses Chu's literary style, dialect rhyme, local products and so on, it has a strong local color, so it is named Chu Ci, which has a far-reaching influence on later poems.
Chu Ci experienced Qu Yuan's creation, imitation after Qu Yuan's submission, collection in early Han Dynasty and collection by Liu Xiang. This book should have been written between 26 BC and 6 BC. Liu Xiang's original book "Songs of the South" died early, and later generations can only trace back and speculate its original appearance indirectly through Wang Yi's "Songs of the South" in the Eastern Han Dynasty (the original book has also been lost) and Song Hongxingzu's "Supplementary Notes on Songs of the South", which is considered to be the most complete.
Songs of the South is of extraordinary significance to the whole cultural system of China, especially to literature. It created the poetic style of China's romantic literature, so later generations called this style "Chu Ci" and "Sao". Poetry, novel, prose and drama all exist to varying degrees.
The study of Chu Ci and its research history are now called "the study of Chu Ci", which flourished in the Han and Song Dynasties and became a prominent school in the classical culture hall of modern China. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Chu Ci flowed into China and other countries with the cultural circles, and even into Europe after16th century.
By the19th century, Chu Ci had aroused widespread concern in Europe and America, and a large number of translation and research works in various languages appeared. In the field of international sinology, Chuci has always been one of the hot spots of research.