Taboo language occupies an extremely important position in the history of China literature. Scholars of past dynasties have compiled, researched, annotated and commented on it and written a lot of works. In the past two thousand years, the study of Chu Ci can be roughly divided into four periods. Han Dynasty is a pioneering period for the study of Chu Ci.
In addition to Qin goods, the focus is on searching, sorting and recording Chu ci works; The annotation work has just laid the foundation; Views on Qu Yuan are very different. In the early Western Han Dynasty, Qu Yuan's works have become the object of study. At present, the earliest known researchers are Liu An and Sima Qian. Liu An wrote Biography of Li Sao, becoming the first person to study Qu Yuan's works and write a monograph in the academic history of China.
The Biography of Li Sao has been lost. According to the remnants of Biography of Qu Yuan, there is a general account of the history of literary criticism. According to the part quoted in Ban Gu's Preface to Lisao, there are notes to explain the textual research, which opens the way for future generations to study Qu Yuan.
Chu Ci, also known as "Chu Ci", is a new poetic genre created by Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan's lyric poem Li Sao has a romantic style and is a masterpiece of Chu Ci, so Chu Ci is also called "Sao Style".
The origin of Chu ci
Songs of Chu, whose original meaning refers to songs of Chu, are gradually fixed into two meanings: one is the genre of poetry, and the other is the name of poetry collection. The writing techniques of Chu Ci are romantic, passionate and imaginative, with strong local characteristics and mythical colors of Chu State.
As far as the poetic genre is concerned, it is a new poetic style created by poets represented by Qu Yuan on the basis of Chu folk songs at the end of the Warring States Period. As far as the collection name is concerned, it is a collection of poems written by Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty on the basis of predecessors, which includes the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, Chu people in the Warring States Period, as well as parodies of Jia Yi, Huainan Xiaoshan, Yan Ji, Dong Fangshuo, Bao Wang and Liu Xiang in the Han Dynasty. The name of Chu Ci first appeared in Records of the Historian Biography of Liangguan.