Qu Yuan's pen turns iron into gold and decay into magic. He brought in fairy tales, fables and myths full of primitive meanings, and he brought in the common sayings, obscenity and witchcraft of Chu people, transforming them into mysterious atmosphere, romantic artistic conception, elegant charm, gorgeous colors and crazy passion.
He also attracted everything in the world to drive the task. He used orchids, herbs and lotus clothes to symbolize the purity and nobility of his character. He compared a group of small parties to smelly grass, nasty birds and filth in Xiao Ai. All these characteristics are often called romanticism by experts.
Chu Ci is a new poetic style created by Qu Yuan and the first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature. The name of "Songs of the South" existed in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty and was compiled by Liu Xiangnai. Wang Yi wrote chapters and sentences in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Qu Yuan and Song Yu, Chu people in the Warring States Period, and sixteen poems written by Xiaoshan, Dong Fangshuo, Wang Bao and Liu Xiang in Huainan in the Han Dynasty. Later, Wang Yi added his Jiu Si to Article 17.
The book is mainly based on Qu Yuan's works, and the rest are also in the form of Qu Fu. Because of its use of Chu's style, dialect phonology and local products, it has a strong local color, so it is named "Chu Ci", which has a far-reaching influence on later poems.
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Chu Ci experienced Qu Yuan's creation, imitation after Qu Yuan's submission, collection in early Han Dynasty and collection by Liu Xiang. This book should have been written between 26 BC and 6 BC. Liu Xiang's original book Chu Ci died early, and later generations can only trace back and guess the original appearance indirectly through Wang Yi's Chu Ci (the original book is gone) and Song Hongxingzu's Chu Ci Supplement (Chu Ci Supplement).
Songs of the South is of extraordinary significance to the whole cultural system of China, especially to literature. It created the poetic style of China's romantic literature, so later generations called this style "Chu Ci" and "Sao". Poetry, novel, prose and drama all exist to varying degrees.
The study of Chu Ci and its research history are now called "Chu Ci", which flourished in Han and Song Dynasties and became a prominent school in the classical culture hall of modern China. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Chu Ci flowed into Japan and other "Confucian-Chinese cultural circles", and even into Europe after16th century.
By the19th century, Chu Ci had aroused widespread concern in Europe and America, and a large number of translation and research works in various languages appeared. In the field of international sinology, Chuci has always been one of the hot spots of research.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Chu Ci