What great contribution did Qu Yuan make in the field of literature?

Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China and the founder of China's romantic literature. He is known as "the ancestor of China's poetry" and "the ancestor of Ci Fu".

. He is the founder and representative author of Chu Ci, which started the tradition of "vanilla beauty"

. The appearance of Qu Yuan marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality.

His main works are Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters and Tian Wen. His Songs of the South is the source of China's romantic literature, and it is also called "Sao" with the Book of Songs, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.