Qu Yuan's value in the history of literature is as follows:
Qu Yuan is a politician with outstanding knowledge, a pious gentleman with high moral character and a great poet with personality. His appearance is of epoch-making significance in the history of China literature. Qu Yuan broke the pattern of four fonts, absorbed folk songs, especially Chu Ci, and created the "Chu Ci" style with irregular and flexible sentence patterns and changeable structure, which is also of great significance.
Qu yuan s literary position and its influence;
Qu Yuan is a politician with outstanding knowledge, a pious gentleman with high moral character and a great poet with personality. His appearance is of epoch-making significance in the history of China literature. Qu Yuan and his works have influenced the thoughts and literary creation of literati in past dynasties and nurtured writers in past dynasties.
For example, when Jia Yi, a writer of the Western Han Dynasty, passed by the Miluo River after being demoted, he felt that he had a similar experience with Qu Yuan and wrote a poem "Mourning Qu Yuan" to express his admiration and infinite grief for Qu Yuan. Sima Qian, who was a little later than Jia Yi, was brutally punished, inspired himself with the spirit of Qu Yuan and Li Sao, and completed the masterpiece Historical Records.
In the form of poetry, Qu Yuan broke the pattern of four fonts, absorbed folk songs, especially Chu Ci, and created the "Chu Ci" style with irregular and flexible sentence patterns and changeable structure, which is also of great significance. In a word, Qu Yuan pioneered the road of China's romantic literary creation, and his spirit and works have an immortal influence on later generations.
Qu Yuan:
Qu Yuan (about 340-278 BC) was a poet and politician of Chu in the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan was born in Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province (where the Three Gorges Dam is located). In 278 BC, after the invasion of Qin Jun, the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan drowned in the Miluo River and died.
Qu Yuan is one of the four cultural celebrities in the world, the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of "Songs of the South", which pioneered the tradition of "vanilla beauty", and is known as "the ancestor of Ci Fu" and "the ancestor of China's poetry". The appearance of Qu Yuan's works indicates that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality.