Chuci is based on the folk songs of Chu.
Chu ci is developed on the basis of Chu folk songs through processing and refining, and has a very strong local characteristics. Chu Ci is a poetic genre created by Qu Yuan, a poet who went abroad. His poem Lisao is a masterpiece of Chu Ci, so it is also called "Sao Style".
The Songs of the South is the first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature, which was written between 26 BC and 6 BC. It is said that it is a new poetic style created by Qu Yuan. "Songs of the South" is of unusual significance to the whole cultural system of China, especially in literature. It initiated the poetry of China's romantic literature, so later generations called this style "Songs of the South" and "Sao".
"Songs of the South" uses the dialect phonology of Chu to describe the mountains and rivers and historical customs of Chu, which has a strong regional cultural color. The book is mainly based on Qu Yuan's works, and the other articles also inherit the form of Qu Fu, with unrestrained feelings and strange imagination. Compared with the simple four-character poems in The Book of Songs, the sentence patterns of Chu Ci are more lively, and sometimes Chu dialect is used in the sentences, which is unique in rhythm and rhythm and is more suitable for expressing rich and complicated thoughts and feelings.
The original meaning of Chu Ci refers to the songs of Chu, and later it is gradually fixed into two meanings: one is the genre of poetry, and the other is the name of the poetry collection. The creation technique of Chu Ci is romantic, with unrestrained feelings and strange imagination, and with strong local characteristics and mythological colors of Chu State.