Qu Yuan's Mourning for the Country is selected from The Songs of Chu and Nine Songs. Nine Songs of National Mourning is a poem written by Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, and it is one of the nine songs. This is an elegy for the soldiers who died in Chu. This poem is divided into two sections. The first section describes the heroic scene of Chu soldiers fighting hand-to-hand with the enemy; The second section eulogizes the noble festivals of Chu soldiers who died for their country and their heroism and patriotism. The whole poem vividly describes the fierce war situation and the soldiers' spirit of courageously striving for the first place, and expresses the author's lofty feelings of loving the motherland. The poem is sincere and passionate, with sharp and rapid rhythm and strong expressive force, conveying a kind of awe-inspiring and solemn beauty, which is unique in Chu Ci works.
Chu Ci is the first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature, which is said to be a new poetic style created by Qu Yuan. The name "Songs of the South" existed in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, until Liu Xiangnai edited it into a collection, and Wang Yi of the Eastern Han Dynasty made chapters and sentences. Qu Yuan and Song Yu in the Warring States Period, Huai Nan Zi Shan, Dong Fangshuo, Wang Bao and Liu Xiang 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. Because it uses Chu's literary style, dialect rhyme, local products and so on, it has a strong local color, so it is named Chu Ci, which has a far-reaching influence on later poems.