Li Sao is the first lyric poem in the history of China's poetry. It is an autobiographical narrative poem of Qu Yuan, a representation of Qu Yuan's mental journey and life tragedy, and a historical portrayal of the rise and fall of Chu State. Li Sao is a magnificent poem written by Qu Yuan with his dreams, passions, pains, pursuits and even his whole life. It is a great and immortal poem in the history of China and even the world.
Li Sao has a magnificent structure, gorgeous literary talent, deep feelings and rich imagination. The first half mainly focuses on fu style, explaining the author's thoughts and feelings; The second half is full of romance, making good use of it. Strong and easy thinking is vivid, mountains and rivers are carefully portrayed every day, myths and reality meet and set each other off, and vanilla beauty metaphors are appropriate, creating a magnificent and dreamy realm.
As Amin scholar Sang Yue said, "Sao Jing is a touching sword, which makes people memorable when reading it. It can be seen that Qu Zi is lonely and loyal, which is the most touching. " Qu Yuan's independence from the world has touched generations of readers with this realm of "seeking up and down".
As a masterpiece, Li Sao shows extremely rich ideological content, which can be summarized into two aspects. One is to describe the contradiction between poets and dynasty rulers, that is, the opposition between ideal and reality; The second is to describe the pain and entanglement of the poet's mind, the contradiction between enterprising and retiring.
The influence of later generations
Li Sao is the pioneering work of China's patriotic poetry, which opened up the source of romanticism in China literature and had an important and far-reaching influence on the development of China literature and the creation of later literati. Scholars of later generations appreciate this long poem. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once declared: "Qu Ping's ci and fu hang the sun and the moon, and the king of Chu is empty."
Many of Li Bai's works, like Li Sao, often weave a large number of myths and legends, the sun, the moon, the stars and historical figures, forming a magnificent picture with symbolic significance. When Lu Xun, the founder of modern literature in China, published Wandering on 1926, he quoted the poem Li Sao as an inscription before the book, which shows that Qu Yuan's tireless pursuit of truth embodied in Li Sao had a great influence on Lu Xun.