Nine Songs Shan Gui is the work of Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period. This poem is a hymn to Shan Gui. It tells the story of an affectionate Shan Gui tryst with his sweetheart in the deep mountains, and the mood of waiting for his sweetheart again in the future, and depicts a magnificent and bizarre image of ghosts and gods. The whole poem depicts the ups and downs of Shan Gui's emotional changes and inner world, which is very detailed and touching.
At the beginning of this poem, a witch dressed as Shan Gui is crossing the hill to meet the gods. From the poet's exquisite description of the wizard's costume, we can know how beautiful Shan Gui is in Chu legend. "People are like mountains" is a telephoto lens. The poet's next word "if" is like her swaying figure in the mountains, giving people a feeling of ethereal magic when she writes. When the camera zooms in, there is a girl dressed in Ficus pumila, a rich woman, fresh and fresh, which is the unique style of the mountain god!
Shan Gui's creative background.
This article is a tribute to the mountain gods. As for whether the "Shan Gui" in the poem is a goddess or a male god, it is still controversial. According to the records in Guoyu and Zuozhuan, the writers of Chu Ci before the Song and Yuan Dynasties regarded Shan Gui as a "monster of wood and stone" and a "ghost", but regarded him as a male mountain monster. However, painters in Yuan and Ming Dynasties painted a graceful and touching goddess according to the descriptions in their poems.
Gu Chengtian's Annotation to Nine Songs in Qing Dynasty first advocated that Shan Gui was the "Goddess of Wushan", and then You Guoen, Guo Moruo and others expounded that Shan Gui should be regarded as a "ghost" or a "goddess". Guo Moruo pronounced "witch" according to the ancient pronunciation of "Yu", inferring that this mountain was Wushan and regarded it as the goddess of Wushan. There is a legend of Wushan Goddess in Chu mythology, and this poem may describe the image of the goddess spread in the early days.