Qu Yuan was born in Danyang (now Yichang City, Hubei Province). Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), a native of Chu in the Warring States Period, was named Mi, Qu, Ping and Yuan. "Li Sao" says: "The name is right and the word is elegant."
Born in Chu Danyang (now Yichang City, Hubei Province), Qu Yuan is a descendant of Qu Xian, the son of Xiong Tong, and a disseminator of the study of Huang Lao. Qu Yuan is the earliest romantic poet in China and the first great patriotic poet in the history of China literature. His appearance marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to solo.
Qu Yuan is the founder and representative writer of Songs of the South, and also created the tradition of "vanilla beauty". Qu Yuan is also a politician. He worked as a doctor in San Lv and was a leftist in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. After Wuqi, another advocate of political reform in Chu was Qu Yuan. He advocated using talents internally, cultivating statutes, and uniting external forces against Qin. Later, he was exiled to the Yuan Xianghe Valley because he was excluded by the nobles.
Literary achievements
Qu Yuan's works are rich in imagination and magnificent in ci style. In Lisao, a large number of myths and legends are used to assemble the sun, the moon and the wind into poems, which makes the words very colorful. He also highlighted the story of three times to find a woman to express his enthusiasm. "
He is good at describing a gentleman with beauty and vanilla; Rotten wood and dirty grass are metaphors of villains, and the scene that the king trusts, the traitor in power and the patriot can't serve the country is vividly written in a contrasting way.
Qu Yuan's works are full of positive romantic spirit. Its main performance is that he integrated his passionate pursuit of ideals into artistic imagination and magical artistic conception. Wind arouses Chu is the style of Qu Yuan's Chu Ci.
Qu Yuan was ostracized and framed by Mix, which made Chu Huaiwang, who once trusted him very much and relied on his reform and self-improvement, have doubts about him, and even alienated from exile. After King Xiang of Chu came to power, he became more fatuous and increasingly corrupt in politics. Chu was facing the crisis of national subjugation and persecuted patriots like Qu Yuan.