Chu people were outstanding politicians and patriotic poets at the end of the Warring States period. The name is flat and the word is original. Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong's son Qu Xian's descendants. Danyang (now Zigui, Hubei) people.
Qu Yuan experienced three periods in his life: Chu Weiwang, Chu Huaiwang and King Xiang of Qing Dynasty, and his main activities were in the period of Chu Huaiwang. This period is the eve of China's imminent reunification. "Qin Huang is horizontal, Chu Wang is vertical." Qu was born in a famous family, good at dealing with chaos and rhetoric, and was highly valued in his early years. He was a doctor of Zuotu. In order to realize the great cause of Chu's reunification, Qu Yuan actively assisted in the reform to strengthen the country, and insisted on uniting Qi with foreign countries to resist Qin, which once made Chu rich and strong. However, due to the sharp contradiction between Qu Yuan and the decadent aristocratic group of Chu State in internal affairs and diplomacy, and the jealousy of Shangguan doctor and others, Qu Yuan was later framed by a clique and alienated by Chu Huaiwang.
In the fifteenth year of Wang Huai (the first 304 years), from Qin to Chu, Zhang Yi bribed Shanxi merchants, Zilan, Zheng Xiu and others as spies with huge sums of money, and at the same time deceived Wang Huai with "offering merchants for 600 miles", which led to the breaking of diplomatic relations between Qi and Chu. After being deceived, he became angry from embarrassment and sent troops to Qin twice, both of which were defeated. Therefore, Qu Yuan was ordered to send an envoy to Qi State to rebuild the friendship between Qi and Chu. Once again, Zhang Yi failed to disintegrate the Qi-Chu alliance from Qin to Chu. In twenty-four years, Qin Chu formed an alliance with Huang Ci, and Chu was completely embraced by the State of Qin. Qu Yuan was also expelled from the capital and moved to the Northern Han Dynasty.
Thirty years after Wang Huai, Qu Yuan returned to Du Ying. In the same year, Qin made an appointment with the military attache, was detained by Qin, and finally died in Qin. After Wang Xiang ascended the throne, he continued to implement the policy of surrender. Qu Yuan was once again expelled from Ying Capital and exiled to the south of the Yangtze River, and was displaced between Yuan and Xiang. In the twenty-first year of King Xiang of Qing Dynasty (278 BC), General Qin attacked Yingdu in vain, and Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River in anger and died for his political ideal.
Qu Yuan's works include Li Sao, Tian Wen, Nine Songs (1 1), Nine Chapters (9) and Evocation, with a total of 23 articles. In addition, whether Buju and Fisherman were written by Qu Yuan is still controversial in academic circles. Among them, Li Sao is Qu Yuan's masterpiece and the longest romantic political lyric poem in the history of ancient China literature. Tian Wen is a rare and peculiar poem in ancient and modern times. It asked 172 questions to heaven continuously, involving astronomy, geography, literature, philosophy and many other fields, which showed the poet's bold suspicion of traditional ideas and scientific spirit of pursuing truth. "Nine Songs" is a set of music songs based on folk songs to worship the gods. There are a lot of gods in the poem, most of which are love songs.
Qu Yuan's works record his persistence in the ideal of "beautiful politics" and his struggle against the decadent aristocratic groups in Chu. His ideal of "beautiful politics" is reflected in his works, that is, "cultivating talents and empowering them, but doing things without being equal" (Li Sao). The so-called "promoting talents and empowering" means selecting truly talented people to govern the country, opposing secular affairs, and limiting the monopoly of old nobles on power, regardless of rank. He also took the historical stories of Fu Shuo, the slave, Lv Wang, the butcher and Ning Qi, the vendor, as examples to illustrate the rationality of selecting talents regardless of their status. The so-called "following the rope without being rude" means practicing the law, that is, the law is not expensive and limiting the privileges of the old nobles. Qu Yuan's ideal of "beautiful politics" reflects his sharp opposition to the decadent aristocratic groups in Chu, and expresses his progressive demand of getting rid of bad politics. Its ultimate goal is to save the motherland from peril and make Chu embark on the road of prosperity. Related to this, Qu Yuan's works also profoundly exposed the darkness of Chu politics, the decay of Chu aristocratic groups and the fatuity of Chu kings, and showed his fighting spirit of adhering to the ideal of "beautiful politics", insisting on moral integrity and "not regretting his death"; At the same time, it shows his determination to care about the country and the people, love the country and the people, and devote himself to the motherland. Although Qu Yuan was exiled or even exiled, he always thought about the rise and fall of the motherland and the sufferings of the people, hoping that the King of Chu would repent, work hard and become the master of ZTE. He knew that being loyal to honesty and frankness would lead to disaster, but he always "endured but could not give up"; Knowing that he faced many dangers, he could have gone to other countries to find a way out in the era of "using Chu materials", but he refused to leave Chu. It shows his infinite loyalty to the motherland and his personality and will to win glory with the sun and the moon.
Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China literature. He is an outstanding representative of romantic poets. As an outstanding politician and patriot, Qu Yuan's spirit of loving the motherland and the people, persisting in the truth, preferring to die rather than surrender, and his lofty personality of "winning glory with the sun and the moon" have inspired and nurtured countless Chinese sons and daughters for thousands of years, especially when the nation was in danger. As a great poet, the appearance of Qu Yuan not only marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality, but also his new poetic style-Chu Ci, which broke through the expression form of The Book of Songs, greatly enriched the expressive force of poetry and opened up a new world for China's ancient poetry creation. Therefore, later generations called Chu Ci and The Book of Songs together as The Book of Songs. "Feng" and "Sao" are the sources of the two fine traditions of realism and romanticism in the history of China's poetry. At the same time, Chu Ci, represented by Qu Yuan, also influenced the formation of Han Fu.
In the history of China, Qu Yuan was the most admired and loved poet by the people. According to the records of "Continuation of Qi and Harmony" and "Geography of Sui Shu", Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The custom of making zongzi and racing dragon boats on May 5th in China originated from people's commemoration of Qu Yuan. 1953, Qu Yuan was also listed as one of the "four cultural celebrities" in the world, which was solemnly commemorated by the World Peace Council and people all over the world.
Lei diansong
Guo Moruo
Qu Yuan (wind and lightning) wind! You shout! Howl! Yell hard! In this dark time, everything fell asleep, fell into a dream and died. It's time for you to roar, and it's time for you to roar as hard as you can!
No matter how much you shout, you can't wake them up from their dreams, you can't blow away the dead, you can't blow away the darkness heavier than iron, but you can at least blow away some dust, sand and stones, at least some flowers and trees. You can let Dongting Lake, Yangtze River and East China Sea surf for you and roar with you!
Ah, I miss Dongting Lake, I miss the Yangtze River, I miss the East China Sea, and the boundless waves! That powerful and boundless great power! That is freedom, dance, music and poetry!
Ah, the greatest poem in the universe! Your wind, your thunder, your electricity, everything you roar and shine in this darkness, you are poetry, music and dance. Great artists in your universe, try your best to exert your strength. Release endless anger and explode this dark universe, a gloomy universe! It exploded!
Ray. Is that the sound of your wheels rolling? You dragged me to Dongting Lake, to the Yangtze River and to the East China Sea! I want to see the rolling waves, I want to hear the roar, I want to drift to an uninhabited island, without conspiracy, filth and selfishness! I want to jump into boundless freedom with you, with your voice and with the boundless sea!
Ah, electricity! You are the sharpest sword in the universe! My sword is drawn, but you, you can draw my tangible sword, but you can't draw my invisible sword. Electricity, your sword in the universe, is also the sword in my heart. You separate, separate, separate! Split, split, split this darkness stronger than iron! Although you split it like water, you pull it out and it closes again, at least you can make the light appear for a moment. Oh, what a brilliant light!
Light, I admire you, I admire you, I bow down to you, I kowtow to you. I know you are a fire, you, the greatest person in the universe, fire! You are on the horizon, you are in front of me, you are by my side, I know you are the life of the universe, you are my life, you are me! My burning life, I am about to burst into anger, can't I shine in generate?
Burst, my body! Burst, universe! Let the naked fire roll, like this wind, like this sea, and burn all tangible and filthy things! Burn it! Burning contains all the evil darkness!
Burn your Eastern Emperor Taiyi! Burn you in the clouds! You wooden poles, what virtue do you have sitting on the throne? You are just a father and mother who create darkness!
You, you Dong Jun, what kind of Dong Jun are you? People say you are the sun god, and you, you can't ride a horse sitting there. You, you're blushing. Are you shy, too? Ah, you, you are totally fake! You, you wooden stick, you heartless, soulless person, I will burn you, burn you, burn everything, especially your horse! Come down and walk if you can! What a good Priestess of Death, what a good young man, your great ability is that you only know how to fool people! What A Xiang jun, what Mrs. A Xiang, your only skill is crying! Cry, what's the use of crying? Tears, what's the use of tears? Let you cry out a few cages of fragrant princess beads at most! But isn't that incense column the instrument of torture used by the master to beat slaves? Get off the boat, get off the cloud, and I'll burn you all to death! Burning! Burning!
Hum, you and Bo ... Oh, you Hebo! You, you are my first comforter! I can see it clearly! When I was taken to the high slope and the guard wanted to rest, I stood on the high slope and looked back at the Longmen. I see very clearly, very clearly! I saw ChanJuan abused, and I saw you stand up and argue with your fingers in the air. As a result, you were brought into Longmen, and Chanjuan was also brought into Longmen.
But I, I have no tears. The universe, the universe has no tears! What's the use of tears? We only have thunder, only lightning, only storms, and we have no slow rain! This is my will, the will of the universe. Encouragement, wind! Roar, ray! Shine, electricity! Destroy, destroy, destroy everything that sleeps in the dark arms!
(Excerpted from the drama Qu Yuan)