my country's first collection of romantic poetry: Songs of Chu
"Chu Ci" is my country's first collection of romantic poetry. Because the form of the poem is based on the folk songs of Chu, and the poem quotes a large number of local customs, products and dialect vocabulary of the Chu region, it is called "Chu Ci". "Chu Ci" is mainly the work of Qu Yuan, whose representative work is "Li Sao", so later generations also called "Chu Ci" "Sao style". At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang collected the works of Qu Yuan, Song Yu and others and compiled them into collections. "Chu Ci" has a profound influence on later generations of literature. It not only opened up the later Fu style, but also influenced the prose creation of all generations. It is the source of my country's positive romantic poetry creation.
"Chu Ci" is my country's first collection of romantic poetry. Because the form of the poem is based on the folk songs of Chu, and the poem quotes a large number of local customs, products and dialect vocabulary of the Chu region, it is called "Chu Ci". "Chu Ci" is mainly the work of Qu Yuan, whose representative work is "Li Sao", so later generations also called "Chu Ci" "Sao style". At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang collected the works of Qu Yuan, Song Yu and others and compiled them into collections. "Chu Ci" has a profound influence on later generations of literature. It not only opened up the later Fu style, but also influenced the prose creation of all generations. It is the source of my country's positive romantic poetry creation.
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