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

Chuci, also known as "Chuci", is a poetic style created by Qu Yuan, a great poet in the Warring States Period. The works use the literary style and dialect rhyme of Chu area (now around the two lakes) to describe the mountains, rivers and historical customs of Chu area, which has strong local characteristics. In the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled Qu Yuan's works and Song Yu's works "Chengqu Fu" into a collection called Songs of the South.

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, which contains 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as "Three Hundred Poems".

The most obvious difference is that Chu Ci is the beginning of romantic poetry.

The Book of Songs is the beginning of realistic poetry.

Therefore, the rhetoric of Chu Ci is gorgeous.

Rich imagination

The language of The Book of Songs is plain.

Mainly narrate events.