Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan (340 BC - 278 BC) was a poet and politician of the Chu State during the Warring States Period. Mi's surname is Qu's, her given name is Ping, and her courtesy name is Yuan; it also comes from the cloud name Zhengze, and her courtesy name is Lingjun. Born in Danyang of Chu State (now Zigui, Hubei Province) around 340 BC, he was a descendant of Qu Xia, the son of King Wu of Chu Xiong Tong.
Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in Chinese history and the founder of Chinese romantic literature. He is known as the "ancestor of Chinese poetry" and "the ancestor of poetry". He is the founder and representative author of "Chu Ci", and started the tradition of "vanilla beauty". The emergence of Qu Yuan marked that Chinese poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality. He was called "the soul of poetry" by later generations.