Why did Qu Yuan choose to throw himself into the river? Why did Sima Qian write the dialogue between the fisherman and Qu Yuan? What does he want to express?

Qu Yuan threw himself into the river because he was very dissatisfied with the social phenomenon at that time and unable to change it, so he chose this way to protest. The first conversation between Qu Yuan and the fisherman in Biography of Qu Yuan reveals that Qu Yuan's tragedy is the tragedy of the times. The second dialogue highlights Qu Yuan's noble quality: he would rather be buried in the belly of a fish than drag out an ignoble existence in collusion with others. It contains the author's firm belief.

Qu Yuan

Generally speaking, whatever the reason, Qu Yuan had to throw himself into the river because of despair, righteousness and personality.

Qu Yuan's pain in life makes China literature lucky. From Nine Songs to Nine Chapters, from Ai to Li Sao, from Ode to Orange to Nine Smells.

All Qu Yuan's pains, anger, sadness and loneliness are combined with Chu folk songs and turned into songs that resound around the world, echoing at the end of time. This is the "Songs of Chu"-a brand-new style that embodies the ideal with the image of vanilla beauty, explores the truth with the realm of heaven and earth, and expresses sadness with eclectic words.

The sky of Chu Ci created by Qu Yuan's "self-casting big words" is full of stars, and Li Sao is the most brilliant of all constellations. Li Sao, with a total length of 373 sentences and 2490 words, is the first lyric poem written by a poet consciously and independently in the history of China literature. Based on himself, the poet established a glorious image of ci writers with noble character and outstanding talent in many aspects.