Which scholar first compiled Chu Ci into a book?

Chu Ci was first edited by Liu Xiang. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, as well as the works of Huainan Xiaoshan, Dong Fangshuo, Bao Wang and Liu Xiang inherited from Qu Yuan and Song Yu in the Han Dynasty into sixteen articles, which were named Songs of the South. It is the ancestor of the set.

Later, Wang Yi added his Jiu Si to Article 17. They are: Li Sao, Jiu Ge, Tian Wen, Jiu Zhang, Yuanyou, Buju, Fisherman, Jiu Bian, Evocation, Grand Tactics, Xi Shi, Recruit Hermit, Seven admonitions and Mourning. This seventeen-article chapter structure has become a popular reading for later generations.

Extended data

Chu Ci describes the mountains, rivers, people and historical customs of Chu with local rhymes of Chu, which has a strong regional cultural color. The book is mainly based on Qu Yuan's works, and other articles also inherit the form of Qu Fu, with unrestrained feelings and strange imagination.

Compared with the simple four-character poems in The Book of Songs, the sentence patterns of Chu Ci are more vivid, and sometimes Chu dialect is used in sentences, which is more suitable for expressing rich and complicated thoughts and feelings.

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