Poetic Style in Qu Yuan's Era

Qu Yuan (about 339 BC-about 278 BC) was a poet and politician of the State of Chu in the Warring States Period, and the founder and representative author of The Songs of Chu.

Characteristics of Chu ci

As a poetic style, Chu Ci has rich imagination. Witchcraft is prevalent in Chu, and witches are often used to play gods and perform some myths and legends to entertain them. All these have cultivated the rich imagination of Chu people, and achieved works with rich imagination, gorgeous language and style such as Li Sao and Nine Songs. Chu ci "all write Chu language, Chu sound, Chu land, named Chu objects [1]", which has a strong local color. The sentences in Chuci are irregular and varied, and the auXiliary words "xi" and "you" are commonly used. Moreover, the structure is generally grand and the length is generally long.

Chuci developed the form of poetry. It broke the four-word form of The Book of Songs, from three or four words to five or seven words. In terms of creative methods, Chu Ci absorbed the romantic spirit of myth and opened up the creative road of romanticism in China literature.