Li Sao is the first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature.

Li Sao is not the first romantic poetry anthology in the history of China literature, but China's first political lyric poem.

Chu Ci is China's first collection of romantic poems.

Li Sao is the masterpiece of Qu Yuan, a famous poet in the Warring States Period, and the longest romantic political lyric poem in the history of ancient Chinese poetry. The poet described his life experience, moral character and ideal, expressed the anguish and contradiction that he was slandered to death, rebuked the fatuity of the king of Chu, the madness of the villain group and the ineffective governance of Japan, and showed the poet's fighting spirit of adhering to the ideal of "beautiful politics", attacking the dark reality, not colluding with evil forces and his patriotic enthusiasm to death.

Comments on Li Sao by Later Generations

Li Sao is a magnificent poem cast by Qu Yuan with his ideal, experience, pain, enthusiasm and even his whole life, in which the poet's distinctive personality shines, which is the first time in the history of China literature. The creation of Li Sao is rooted in reality and full of fantasy.

Ancient myths and legends are widely used in poetry. Through extremely rich imagination and association, as well as extravagant description, real people, historical figures and mythical figures are intertwined, and the earth and the kingdom of heaven, the human world and the dreamland are intertwined, forming a magnificent, strange and colorful fantasy world, thus producing a strong artistic charm. The metaphor of "vanilla beauty" is widely used in poems, which vividly shows abstract consciousness and complex realistic relationship.