Qu Yuan's most important work is Li Sao, which basically represents Qu Yuan's works.
The artistic achievements of "Li Sao":
"Li Sao" is an ancient Chinese masterpiece. The first long lyric poem written independently by a poet in the history of literature. "Li Sao" is an outstanding romantic lyrical work, but it also profoundly reflects the real politics of Chu State. It absorbed northern culture and literature, especially the realist spirit of the Book of Songs, and was nurtured by the cultural spirit of southern witchcraft and religion, forming a romantic creative style.
1. "Li Sao" creates a tall lyrical protagonist image based on the poet's self. The poet has a noble family background, beautiful qualities, excellent talents, and noble personality. The poet used the symbolic technique of wearing incense and wearing fragrance to repeatedly describe his noble personality and diligent cultivation of morality. In these descriptions, we see an image of being extraordinary and independent. The poet has feelings of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism and a pure heart that is concerned about the country and the people. He was concerned about the fate of the king and the country: "I am afraid that the beauty will grow old when the vegetation is scattered." Although he was alienated by the villain and alienated by the king, in the end, it could not change his attachment to his motherland. The poet has lofty ideals and persistent ideal pursuit. In order to realize his ideal, he relentlessly explored: "The road is still far away, and I will search for it from top to bottom." He always lamented the passage of time and the unfulfilled achievements: "If I am too late, I am afraid that I will not be able to do it in the future." and". Although the darkness of reality makes it difficult to realize his ideals, he persists in his ideals: "I still have good intentions, and I still have no regrets even though I almost died!" He even sacrificed his own life: "There is nothing more than good politics. , I will live in Peng Xianzhi!"
2. The rich and colorful artistic expression techniques of "Li Sao", including the use of metaphor, symbolism, narrative, fantasy, fiction and other artistic expression techniques, create a rich image system. The most prominent artistic feature of "Li Sao" is the creative development of the simple Bixing of "The Book of Songs" into a rich image system. "Li Sao" creatively uses three major image groups: First, the personnel image group. The second is the image group of flowers, grass, birds. The third is the mythological image group.
3. "Li Sao" creates a magnificent, grand and complete artistic structure. "Li Sao" is a lyric poem, which mainly expresses the feelings of loyalty and sorrow as the clue of the poem. Lyric poems generally do not have storylines, but the first part of "Li Sao" is lyrical based on the poet's life experiences, and the latter part also fictionalizes the persuasion of female concubines, the emphasis on rhetoric, spiritual divination, witchcraft and sorcery, A series of illusory plots such as wandering around in all directions make the lyrical unfold in a looming plot. At the same time, it also expanded the structure of the poem, increased the content of the poem, and formed a magnificent, grand and complete artistic structure.
4. "Li Sao" is also innovative and pioneering in terms of poetic language and form. It draws on the nutrients of Chu songs and pre-Qin prose, breaks the four-character form of the Book of Songs, and creates a language form that is basically neat, yet uneven, flexible and free. The language of "Li Sao" is refined, gorgeous and highly expressive, and it uses many dialects, function words, double tones, overlapping rhymes, etc.
3. Qu Yuan’s other works:
(1) "Nine Songs" is a set of lyric poems based on folk songs of Chu people worshiping gods, *** 11 articles. In terms of content, they are influenced by the folk religion and witchcraft culture of the Chu people. They all use gods to express emotions, and the content mostly contains descriptions of love affairs. In art, he is especially good at perfectly integrating the description of scenery, the setting of the environment, the rendering of the atmosphere and the expression of the characters' thoughts and emotions, creating a very beautiful artistic realm. The language of "Nine Songs" is clear, graceful, vivid and natural, extremely lyrical, and has a strong romantic artistic style. Among the "Nine Songs", only "National Memorial" is different from other chapters in its vigorous and tragic style.
(2) "Nine Chapters" is a group of Qu Yuan's works collected by later generations, consisting of nine chapters. "Ode to Orange" expresses Qu Yuan's ideal personality through the ode to orange. The ideological content of the rest of the chapters is mostly consistent with "Li Sao", but they only write about a certain aspect of experience and emotion in a shorter length. "Nine Chapters" is mainly realistic in its art and has a stronger spirit of realism. There is also strong lyricism running through the realism.
(3) "Tianwen" is a strange article in Qu Yuan's poetry. The poem raises more than 170 questions in the form of questions about history, philosophy, society, life, nature, mythology and other aspects. It is the poet's suspicion and exploration of the universe, nature and social and human affairs. "Tian Wen" has a unique conception. It is composed purely of the things asked. It is also huge in length. It is the second largest novel after "Li Sao". "Tianwen" basically adopts the four-character form of "The Book of Songs", with a few miscellaneous words. The poems are magnificent and strange, majestic and lively in rhythm. The narration of questions is mixed with exciting emotions and contains profound philosophical thoughts.