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China's first romantic poetry collection.
Chu Ci is China's first prose collection of Sao poems. 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. The book is mainly based on Qu Yuan's works, and the rest are also in the form of Qu Fu. Chu Ci is named because it uses the style of writing, dialect rhyme and local products of Chu (note: Hunan, Hubei and western Anhui) and has a strong local color.
The Songs of Chu experienced the creation of Qu Yuan's works, the imitation after Qu Yuan's submission, the collection in the early Han Dynasty and the collection by Liu Xiang. This book should have been written between 26 BC and 6 BC. Liu Xiang's original book Chu Ci died early, and later generations can only trace back and guess the original appearance indirectly through Wang Yi's Chu Ci (the original book is gone) and Song Hongxingzu's Chu Ci Supplement (Chu Ci Supplement).
As a collection of poems with the most profound influence on China literature after The Book of Songs, The Songs of the South is of extraordinary significance to the whole cultural system of China, especially to literature. It initiated the poetry of China's romantic literature, and later generations called this style "Chu Ci Style" and "Sao Style". Poetry, novel, prose and drama all exist to varying degrees.
The discipline that studies the songs of Chu and its research history is now called "Songs of Chu". Beginning in the Han Dynasty and flourishing in the Song Dynasty, he became an outstanding scholar in the classical culture hall of modern China. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Chu Ci flowed into Japan and other "Confucian-Chinese cultural circles", and even into Europe after16th century. In the19th century, it attracted wide attention in Europe and America, and a large number of translation and research works in various languages appeared. In the field of international sinology, Chuci has always been one of the research hotspots.
Title: Songs of the South
Authors: Liu Xiang's anthology, Qu Yuan's works, etc.
Category: Collection of ancient books, poems and articles on Chu Ci.
Compilation: 26 BC-6 BC
Nature: Classics of Chinese Studies
Influence: It has a far-reaching influence on the hot spots of China literature and Chinese studies.
Status: China's first romantic poetry collection
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Ancient books section
Chu Ci is the earliest collection of romantic poems and the source of romantic literature. The name "Chu Ci" first appeared in Records of the Historian and Biography of Corrupt Officials. It can be seen that this name already existed in the early Han Dynasty at the latest. Its original meaning refers to Chu Ci in general, and later becomes a proper name, which refers to the new poetic style represented by Qu Yuan's creation during the Warring States Period. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang sorted out the works of Qu Yuan and Song Yu, and the works of Xiaoshan, Dong Fangshuo, Bao Wang and Liu Xiang in Huainan in the Han Dynasty, with a total of 16 articles named "Songs of the South". It is the ancestor of the set. Later, Wang Yi added his Jiu Si to Article 17. They are: Li Sao, Jiu Ge, Tian Wen, Jiu Zhang, Yuanyou, Buju, Fisherman, Jiu Bian, Evocation, Grand Tactics, Xi Shi, Recruit Hermit, Seven admonitions and Mourning. This seventeen-article chapter structure has become a popular reading for later generations.