The first romantic poetry collection in the history of China literature is

The first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature is The Songs of the South. Songs of the South broke the style of emphasizing four words, chapters and rhymes in The Book of Songs, created a new poetic style, and played an important role in promoting the development of poetry. The poetic form of Chuci is based on the folk songs of Chu, and it also quotes a large number of styles, dialects and local products of Chu, so it has a strong local color and is full of romantic spirit. Poets such as Qu Yuan expressed their pursuit of freedom, truth and ideals through Chu Ci, showing people's firm beliefs and noble sentiments. This strong emotional expression and ideal pursuit made Chuci a model of romantic poetry, which provided important enlightenment and reference for later literary creation. The Songs of Chu tells the lonely feelings and noble character of intellectuals, or shows the mountains, rivers, people and historical customs of Chu State. It has a strong regional cultural color. With its changeable and flexible genre and expressive methods of "attaching affection to things" and "attaching affection to irony", it created a precedent for romantic literature. Therefore, later generations call this style "Chu Ci Style" and "Sao Style", which contains profound patriotic feelings and positive and tenacious struggle spirit.