In 340 BC, Qu Yuan was born in Chu, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.
As a teenager, Qu Yuan studied hard day and night all year round. He also found that Chu State was bullied by the increasingly powerful Qin State.
From an early age, Qu Yuan was determined to "swear to change the predicament of Chu State and make it rich and strong".
In mid-spring March, 20-year-old Qu Yuan came to Beijing at the invitation of Chu Huaiwang. His first gift to Chu Huaiwang was Ode to Oranges, which began:
After the emperor, the trees are beautiful and the oranges are attractive.
I was ordered not to move. I was born in the south.
Deep-rooted and difficult to migrate, more determined.
Qu Yuan used Ode to an Orange to express his ambition, comparing himself to an unshakable tangerine peel rooted in southern Chu, and determined to devote his life to and love Da Chu.
After reading Qu Yuan's Ode to an Orange, Chu Huaiwang called "Yes" three times in a row.
In 3 17 BC, 23-year-old Qu Yuan was appointed as a left disciple and often accompanied Cao Jun. Qu Yuan also began his happy life.
In the late Warring States period, the disputes among heroes were the widest in Chu and the strongest in Qin. Qu Yuan proposed to unite Qi against Qin.
Chu Huaiwang sent Qu Yuan to Qi, and he achieved great success.
Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao and Wei monarchs met in Chu, and * * * promoted Chu Huaiwang as "left and right"; "Combination boxing" against Qin.
At that time, the state of Qin was forced to adjust its strategy and turn from defensive to offensive.
There is no war outside, but peace inside. Chu ushered in a brief peace and the school flourished.
In order to make Chu more prosperous, Qu Yuan made great efforts to reform. This also made him from a promising young man to a person who was shouted by everyone in the aristocratic class.
He actively reformed the political system and implemented many decrees in Chu, weakening the interests of nobles and protecting the rights and interests of civilians.
Qu Yuan's New Deal mainly includes the following contents:
Strict laws and regulations, clear rewards and punishments, and binding the words and deeds of nobles with laws;
Open up roads, break down barriers, and let people's opinions soar into the sky;
Recommend talents and break the limitations of family background;
Reward farming, enrich the people and strengthen the country, and improve people's enthusiasm for life. ?
Political reform is in full swing, and these decrees to protect civilians and defend national interests have won the full support of outspoken ministers, and people who want to make a difference applaud. However, it moved the cake of the old aristocratic class in Dachu.
Together, they set a trap and slandered him, saying that he was "arrogant" and "didn't take Chu Huaiwang seriously". With the joint efforts of Shangguan Dafu, a former power minister, and Zheng Xiu, a favourite in the harem, slanderers were like snowflakes, and finally "the king was angry and neglected Qu Ping".
Qin also seized the opportunity to add fuel to the fire and sent Zhang Yi to buy off Chu officials with a large sum of money.
The State of Qin sent Zhang Yi to lobby the State of Chu to induce Chu Huaiwang to break diplomatic relations with the State of Qi with a military position of 600 Li, and the State of Chu and the State of Qin formed a "yellow thorn alliance".
Seeing Qin's ambition to annex the world, Qu Yuan stood up against it and urged the King of Qi to make friends with Qin, which was tantamount to taking skin from a tiger.
However, he was expelled by the imperial court and exiled to Hanbei. The 26-year-old Qu Yuan was also demoted from the left to a doctor in San Lv, and the political reform movement that lasted only three years also came to an end. ...
The measures to eliminate rape and reform evil were abolished, and the painstaking efforts were in vain.
Qu Yuan thought that Chu Huaiwang would understand his painstaking efforts one day and re-enable himself.
After countless times of worrying about the country and the people and sleepless nights, Qu Yuan wrote Nine Chapters of Nostalgia to express his loyalty to Chu Huaiwang.
Either loyal or self-righteous in heaven.
Make the five emperors compromise, abstain from the six gods and obey.
Paying homage to the loyal monarch and serving the country, opposing leaving the group, is redundant.
Words and deeds can be tracked, but feelings and appearances remain the same.
He expected the king of Chu to wake up one day.
In 3 13 BC, in order to sever the alliance between Chu and Qi, Qin sent Zhang Yi to perform a "unique trick". The arrival of Zhang Yi also made Da Chu, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, begin to decline.
Zhang Yi promised that "Qin is willing to return the land of Shang Yang, which was originally occupied by Chu, to Chu".
This is a commercial port that several generations of The King of Chu State want to recover. It was also the bait for Qin to alienate Qi and Chu, and instigated Chu to tear up the Covenant with Qi.
Short-sighted took the bait and broke off diplomatic relations with Qi.
Qu Yuan's remonstrance with blood and tears can't stop the destruction of Chu.
As Qu Yuan expected, Chu and Qi broke off diplomatic relations and found it was a scam.
Qin only retired six miles, not the promised six hundred. Attack the state of Qin angrily. Before launching the "Battle of Chu and Qin", Qu Yuan tried to dissuade Wang Huai, but Wang Huai wouldn't listen. Instead, he was exiled by Chu Huaiwang.
In the end, 80,000 soldiers of Chu State were killed, Hanzhong County fell and became the land of Qin State, and the national strength of Chu State plummeted.
Angry, disappointed and helpless, Chu Huaiwang didn't think of Qu Yuan until now, but he was scolded. In order to repair the relationship with Qi, he once again used Qu Yuan.
Qu Yuan's heart belongs to his home country. At the critical moment, 42-year-old Qu Yuan was still determined to run for Chu and go to Qi.
Qin did not want to see the two countries repaired, and was once again confused by the land of Hanzhong.
Zhang Yi also played an emotional card, suggesting that the two countries exchange their princes for protons, be willing to get married and never go to war.
Chu Huaiwang was cheated again, and Qu Yuan failed to stop betraying Qi again. Before coming back from Qi, Chu Huaiwang released Yi Cheung.
Qu Yuan was exiled to Hanbei in exchange for politics.
So the sad Qu Yuan wrote "Li Sao", which was a farewell song throughout the ages.
Take a long breath to hide your tears and mourn the hardships of people's lives.
I also do whatever I want, although I have never regretted it when I die!
I'd rather die in exile, but I can't bear it!
Be innocent, die straight, and be thicker than the former sanctuary.
There is still a long way to go in Xiu Yuan, and I will go up and down!
He has written some works, such as Missing, Beauty, Returning from the Past, etc.
He also sighed in the cold wind and rain, asked about the wrath of heaven and wrote Tian Wen.
He asked the universe, God and people, which made poetry grow philosophical wings.
He also asked heaven, earth and himself how to arrange and stick to his dreams.
Qu Yuan has no intention of becoming a poet.
Qu Yuan hated Chu Huaiwang because he refused to believe in his loyalty, because he gave up his dream of being rich and strong, and because he led to the decline of the country. ?
Lost power and influence, he wanted to accuse the king of Chu and the world with words.
Qu Yuan's sobriety alone cannot save the sleeping Chu State.
But when Qu Yuan, who was exiled and exiled, learned that he wanted to meet the king of Qin, he stopped him and remonstrated with him to death.
Chu Huaiwang didn't listen to Qu Yuan's discouragement to keep an appointment with the king of Qin, but listened to the flattery of that school. At this point, they met for the last time. Chu Huaiwang was always captured by Qin, and the king of one country became a prisoner of Qin, and finally died in another country. ?
When Qu Yuan learned of Chu Huaiwang's death, he was heartbroken. However, instead of indulging in sadness, he is eager to help the new monarch become rich and strong.
He advised the new king to get close to the sages and not indulge in debauchery, but the newly superior king Xiang of Chu Qing was still surrounded by villains and indulged in debauchery. At the instigation of his younger brother, he exiled Qu Yuan to the further south.
This year, Qu Yuan was 57 years old.
Qu Yuan, an old man, lived in exile in Jiangnan, where he spent his last days.
In 278 BC, the mountain state of Chu was breached, and the famous state of Qin invaded the capital of Chu. Qing Xiang, the king of Chu, fled, the building was overthrown, and Qu Yuan's country was destroyed. ?
When Qu Yuan was a teenager, Chu, who swore allegiance to the death, perished. ?
The children of Qu Yuan's protege, who had high hopes, all died under the iron hoof of Qin State.
Qu Yuan can't sleep at night, and the exhausted country is full of sorrow and sorrow.
The politician who refused to give in no matter how framed by a villain and refused to give up in exile was desperate.
Qu Yuan, 63, put on his favorite colorful clothes, wore a high hat on his head and a sword around his waist, and walked towards the Miluo River.
A fisherman by the river recognized him. "You're not Dr San Lv? Why did it fall to this point? "
Qu Yuan said, "It's cloudy in the world. I'm alone. Everyone is drunk. I'm alone." That's why I was exiled. He stood on the bank of the rolling Miluo River and jumped into the river without hesitation.
The day Quyuan threw himself into the river was the Dragon Boat Festival. Some people say it's in memory of Qu Yuan. Dragon boat racing is rowing desperately to salvage Qu Yuan. Making zongzi means that the fish in the river are afraid to eat Qu Yuan's body.
Qu Yuan lived only for his country, twice in exile, and three times in danger, wandering around the world.
However, he used his life's hardships to write the most brilliant stroke for China literature history books. His poems are summarized as Songs of the South, and together with The Book of Songs, they have become the two major sources of China literature.
1953, on the occasion of the 2230th anniversary of Qu Yuan's death, the World Peace Council passed a resolution to identify Qu Yuan as one of the four cultural celebrities in the world.
China's planetary exploration mission was named "Tian Wen Series", the first Mars exploration mission was named "Tian Wen No.1", and the subsequent planetary missions were numbered in turn. This name comes from Qu Yuan's long poem Tian Wen, which expresses the tenacity and persistence of the Chinese nation in pursuing truth.
Time is silent, thousands of years have passed, and today, it is also the Dragon Boat Festival, with peaceful mountains and rivers.
On this day, looking at the north and south of the river, the leaves are fragrant, the dragon boat races, and hundreds of millions of Chinese children, who does not miss Qu Yuan?
Although Qu Yuan died, his patriotic spirit lasted for thousands of years, engraved in the blood of Chinese civilization, and became the spiritual resource of Chinese sons and daughters in past dynasties.
As the Tao Te Ching said, "Those who lose their positions live long, and those who die without dying live long."