Chuci is the earliest collection of romantic poems in ancient China, the source of romantic literature and an important collection of poems in ancient China. It was named after the Warring States Period, and it was a new style of poetry, called Ci, which was developed through the genius creation of the great poet Qu Yuan. After Qu Yuan, Song Yu and other Han literati also engaged in the creation of ci.
"Chu Ci", also known as "Chu Ci", is a poetic style created by Qu Yuan, a great poet in the Warring States Period. His works use Chu's writing style and dialect rhyme to describe Chu's mountains and rivers and historical customs, which has strong local characteristics. In the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled Qu Yuan's works and Song Yu's works "Cheng Qu Fu" into a collection called Songs of the South.
A Brief Introduction to the Content of Chuci
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang inherited and imitated the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, as well as those of Zishan, Dong Fangshuo, Bao Wang and Liu Xiang in Huainan, and compiled them into a collection named Songs of the South, which was the ancestor of this collection.
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.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Songs of the South.