He started the tradition of "Chu Ci" and "vanilla beauty". During the Warring States Period, he was born in Chu State. He was a doctor and a disciple of San Lv. He was also in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. He advocated promoting talents internally, cultivating statutes, and uniting external forces against Qin. Later, because of the exclusion of nobles, he was exiled to the Yuan and Hunan basins. In 278 BC, the generals of the State of Qin attacked the capital of Chu in one fell swoop.
He initiated a new era of poetry from collective singing to individual independent writing. He is the founder of China's romantic poetry, the first great patriotic poet in China and one of the four cultural celebrities in the world.