What literary genre was Qu Yuan the founder of?

1. During the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu, created a new poetic genre by using Chu language on the basis of southern folk songs. Qu Yuan's lyric poem Lisao is a masterpiece of Chu Ci, so Chu Ci is also called Lisao Style.

2. "Chuci" refers to the poems and fu with local characteristics of Chu State, which are obviously different from northern poems in form. Furthermore, the direct source of Chu Ci should be Chu folk songs represented by Nine Songs. The mysterious and confusing romantic spirit of southern sacrificial songs also deeply influenced and even determined the expression and style characteristics of Chu ci;

3. The writing techniques of Chu Ci are romantic, passionate and imaginative, with strong local characteristics and mythical colors of Chu State.