The appearance of Chu Ci marks the transformation of China's collective creation of ancient poetry.

Qu Yuan was the first great poet in the history of China literature. The appearance of Qu Yuan and his works initiated a brand-new era in the history of China's poetry-a new era of poetry from collective singing to individual independent creation. Qu Yuan also created a brand-new poetic style, and his works are very original. He created a brand-new literary genre-"Sao Style" on the basis of the folk songs of Chu in the south at that time. Compared with The Book of Songs, it has made great progress in terms of length, syntax and expression, greatly expanding the expressive force of poetry. It is by using this new poetic form that Qu Yuan galloped his rich imagination and poured his warm feelings into writing great and famous poems such as Li Sao, which showed the first plump and distinctive lyrical image in the history of China literature. All these creations are unprecedented in the history of poetry and are of great significance to our country.

In art, after the Book of Songs, Qu Yuan opened up another far-reaching tradition for China literature with positive romanticism, thus enriching the artistic expression of China literature. The Book of Songs and Qu Yuan's works are two towering peaks in China's literary history, but the Book of Songs has become an example for future generations to learn more in the style of folk songs and realism. Qu Yuan's works had a great influence on later generations by romantic means such as bold fantasy, imagination and exaggeration. After the appearance of Qu Yuan's works of Chu Ci, "Feng" and "Sao" became two criteria for ancient China people to evaluate poetry. As the beginning of China's positive romanticism, Qu Yuan's works are of special significance to the development of China's ancient poetry.

On the artistic expression of poetry, Qu Yuan also developed the metaphor of The Book of Songs, which contributed to the formation of the national artistic characteristics of China's poetry. Metaphor is indeed the characteristic of many folk songs in The Book of Songs, and it was also the earliest creation in The Book of Songs. However, Qu Yuan made an important development on it. Metaphors in The Book of Songs are often just fragments of a poem, and most of them are relatively simple. Things used to evoke happiness are still independent objects, but Qu Yuan has changed and developed. First of all, it began to melt things into me and feelings into the scenery, expanding the realm and expressive force of poetry. Therefore, the comparison and arousal in Qu Yuan's works is not simply to compare something with something, or to touch something to arouse happiness, but to combine some characteristics of things with people's thoughts, feelings, personalities and ideals. The attachment and sustenance of feelings are more concrete, which has opened up the expressions of "emotion into things" and "satirizing the world with things" in later generations, and has a great influence on China's ancient literature, especially poetry creation.

Judging from the sentence pattern, the sentence pattern of China's classical poetry is a four-character case represented by The Book of Songs. With the development of social life and language, it gradually evolved forward and finally shaped into five characters and seven characters. In the process of the evolution from four-character poems to five-character and seven-character poems, Qu Yuan's Chu Ci and Yuefu poems in the early Han Dynasty played an extremely important transitional role. On the one hand, Qu Yuan's Chu Ci absorbed the forms of Chu folk songs and folk songs. On the other hand, language and sentence patterns creatively absorbed and integrated the emerging prose language in the Warring States period, thus producing such a style of Chu Ci. Therefore, although it is not very stereotyped, it is a liberation of poetic style, which creates conditions for the emergence of new poetic style and paves the way for the emergence of five-character and seven-character poems.