Qu Yuan lived in China at the end of the Warring States Period (about 340 BC-278 BC). He was born in a noble family of Chu and was trusted by Chu Huaiwang. He worked as a Zuotu and a doctor in San Lv, and was also in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs.
Qu Yuan has a strong feeling of home and country. He is straightforward and has a strong sense of justice. He often remonstrated with Qin, advocated "beauty politics", and extended a helping hand to Qi to confront Qin.
Qu Yuan's thought of governing the country with clear laws as the mainstay was suppressed and rejected by the aristocratic class. Chu Huaiwang listened to the slanderers who were jealous of the virtuous and failed the country, and exiled Qu Yuan to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley successively, away from state affairs.
Qu Yuan was loyal to the country and could not be reused, so he was depressed. He witnessed Qin's aggressive posture, worried and uneasy. He had a premonition that Chu was about to be defeated by Qin. At this time, Qu Yuan sighed helplessly, angrily picked up the pen in his hand, and excitedly wrote a poem about the country and the people, named Li Sao, and also wrote many poems such as Tian Wen and Tian Wen.
Qu Yuan's Li Sao is about his restless mind when he left. Qu Yuan had a premonition that Chu was about to face the disaster of national destruction and death. That kind of centrifugal sadness arises spontaneously, but his strength is weak, insignificant and powerless. He was restless and anxious, so Qu Yuan chose the word Li Sao as the title of this poem. It is more appropriate to write the poem Li Sao with the word "Li Sao" as the title.
The poem Li Sao vividly describes the author's thought of striving for a lofty ideal realm all his life. The whole poem strongly expresses the author's ambivalence of being killed by the slanderer, so as to show his devotion to the country and the persistence of his feelings for the country. At the same time, it shows the author's struggle spirit of pursuing truth and justice, exposes the decay of the aristocratic group headed by the king of Chu at that time, and attacks their heinous crimes of being jealous of the virtuous and doing evil.
Li Sao is one of the representative works of Qu Yuan, a famous romantic poet in ancient China. Li Sao expresses the author's anxiety and anger about abandoning morality, including his personal feelings of sadness, sorrow, helplessness, regret, sorrow and anger. This is the anxiety expressed by the author according to his bad situation at that time. I was very touched and benefited a lot after reading it!
After Qu Yuan wrote Li Sao, the hegemony of various countries reached a fever pitch. In 278 BC, as Qu Yuan expected, Qin Jun occupied Kyoto of Chu. Qu Yuan's heart ached when he saw what was happening in front of him. He couldn't believe that his motherland was occupied by Qin.
Qu Yuan was disheartened and had the idea of leaving this world. But he can't leave the embrace of his motherland. He thought about it and finally decided to leave this land. On his deathbed, he wrote Huai Sha's last poem, and then threw a stone into the Miluo River, ending his life and composing a magnificent patriotic poem. This day is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, a traditional festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival.
Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit deeply touched the local people. When people learned that Qu Yuan had jumped into the river, they immediately rowed for rescue and salvage. Unfortunately, they didn't get Qu Yuan's body. In order to mourn, on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May every year, people paddle in the Miluo River and gradually develop into a dragon boat race. People are worried that Qu Yuan's body will be eaten by fish, so they throw zongzi into the Miluo River to feed fish and shrimp, so as not to spoil Qu Yuan's body, which is also the reason for eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival.
Qu Yuan is the founder of China's ancient romantic poetry. On the basis of Chu Ci, he created a new poetic genre & Chu Ci, which is unique in the history of China literature. Together with The Book of Songs, it is called "coquettish" in poetry circles, which has a positive influence and significance on the creative thinking, content and writing skills of later poems.
In a word, "leaving Sao" means leaving sorrow. Qu Yuan wrote a poem named Li Sao in order to express and express his feelings about home and country after his exile and parting from sorrow.