qu yuan (34 BC-278 BC) was a poet and politician in the state of Chu during the warring States period. Mi surname, Qu family, Ming Ping, the original word; And since the cloud name is regular, the word spirit is even. Born about 34 BC in Danyang, Chu (now Zigui, Hubei), he is the descendant of Qu Xian, the son of Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong.
Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, and is known as "the ancestor of Chinese poetry" and "the ancestor of Ci and Fu". He is the founder and representative author of "Chu Ci", which opened up the tradition of "vanilla beauty". The appearance of Qu Yuan marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality. He was called "the soul of poetry" by later generations.
Qu Yuan was also an important politician in Chu State. He was trusted by Chu Huaiwang in his early years, serving as a Zuotu and a doctor in San Lv, and was also in charge of domestic and foreign affairs. After Wuqi, another advocate of political reform in Chu was Qu Yuan. He advocated "American politics", advocated promoting talents and appointing talents internally, perfecting statutes, and uniting with external forces to resist Qin. Being slandered by the nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley successively.
in 278 BC, the general of the Qin dynasty attacked Ying, the capital of Chu (now Jiangling, Hubei), and Qu Yuan was filled with grief and indignation. Huai Shi drowned himself in the Miluo River and died a martyr. In 1953, it was the 223th anniversary of Qu Yuan's death. The World Peace Council passed a resolution to identify Qu Yuan as one of the four famous cultural figures in the world that year.
The main works are Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters, Jiu Wen and so on. The Songs of the South, written by him, is the source of China's romantic literature, and is also called "coquettish" with the Book of Songs, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.