What's the difference between The Songs of the South and The Book of Songs?

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China and the result of collective creation. Qu Yuan is the founder and important representative poet of Chu Ci. His appearance made the creation of poetry really move towards the road of individual independent creation. On the basis of the blending of North and South cultures, he absorbed the national nutrition of Chu culture and created a new form of song "Sao Style". As the representatives of romanticism and realism in the pre-Qin period, Chu Ci and The Book of Songs had an important influence on the development of China's ancient poetry.

In addition to the differences in orientation between romanticism and realism, there are also significant differences in sentence patterns between them. Although both of them have five-character and six-character sentence patterns, the sentence pattern of The Book of Songs is mainly four-character, which is repeated circularly. Function words are widely used in Chuci, which are mainly composed of six-character sentence patterns.

In addition, the rhyme rules of the two are different. There are many rhymes in The Book of Songs. There are two rhymes, four rhymes and eight rhymes in Chu Ci, which can be regarded as the repetition of two rhymes and one change. Compared with The Book of Songs, Chuci has a huge structure, uneven language, uneven length and long space.