What is "Sao Poetry"

Poems in Sao style refer to poems such as Li Sao. This is because Qu Yuan, as a verse, belongs to the category of poetry. Moreover, the ancients thought that Qu Yuan was not far from the ancient poets, and his works still had the legacy of the ancient sages, won the poet's meaning, or changed the elegance (this is the common view since Han Confucianism, and they think that "Poetry 300" is generally the anger of the ancient sages, and so are his works); Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" is a self-innovative style, that is, a poem in Sao style, so it makes sense to call Qu Yuan a poem in Sao style. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, people called poems with rich Sao style, such as Yu Ji Ge by Xiang Yu, Da Feng Ge by Liu Bang, Sorrow Poems by Cai Yan and Song of Gao Ming by Li Bai. Sao style, also known as Chu ci style. It originated from Chu State in the Warring States Period and was founded by Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan and other poets wrote many excellent works in this style. This kind of works is full of lyrical elements and romantic atmosphere, with long length and words, free form and the word "Xi" at the end of the sentence. Compared with Qu Yuan's previous poetic forms, Sao-style poems mainly have the following characteristics: First, the breakthrough of sentence patterns. Qu Yuan created a long sentence pattern with six words as the main, five words mixed with seven words, which was generally neat and flexible. This is a major breakthrough in four fonts. The second is the innovation of rules and regulations. Qu Yuan's "Sao Style" is not limited to the composition of ancient poetry, but indulges in his thoughts, or states, or mourning, or calling, which has its origin, development, circular care and extremely clear context. The third is institutional expansion. Most of Qu Yuan's previous poems were only short chapters with dozens of lines. His Li Sao, with 372 sentences and 2,469 words, laid a long system of China's ancient poems.