Chuci is a new poetic style created by Qu Yuan. The name of "Songs of the South" existed in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty and was compiled by Liu Xiangnai. Wang Yi wrote chapters and sentences in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Qu Yuan and Song Yu, Chu people in the Warring States Period, and sixteen poems written by Xiaoshan, Dong Fangshuo, Wang Bao and Liu Xiang in Huainan in the Han Dynasty. Later, Wang Yi added his Jiu Si to Article 17.
Chu Ci experienced Qu Yuan's creation, imitation after Qu Yuan's submission, collection in early Han Dynasty and collection by Liu Xiang. This book should have been written between 26 BC and 6 BC.